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The move comes amid outcry from Democrats after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affixed Trump’s name to its sign in Washington.
Donald Trump’s name is being attached to a new class of U.S. battleships that will have nuclear capabilities.
Making the announcement at an event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Navy Secretary John Phelan referred to the warships as “Trump-class battleships" and said a forthcoming vessel dubbed the USS Defiant will be “the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.”
Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.
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The chomo fleet?
Does he know trump means fart?
Haven’t drones made these obsolete? A swarm of Chinese drones would cripple one in a day.
That’s a good point, but it seems so obvious. I would we have a giant EMP or laser pointer thing that could wipe them out. Idk, just seems like they should have thought of that
There won’t be any battleship.
This is just another grift to streak the government coffers dry
Same with the " golden dome", “doge”, etc… all scams so his buddies can get lucrative contracts.
Even so, this is suuuuch a sad thing. A five year old would make a fantasy battle ship and name it after himself. Its pathetic
boondoggle
Sir. The battleship is unavailable because of its bone spurs
USS Bone Spur
Sir the autopilot is hard coded to go to some island
As soon as the next president comes in, it’s scorched earth time.
Didn’t we stop using battleships once stuff like guided missiles started being common?
We’ve seen in Ukraine how much destruction cheap drones can do when used intelligently.
he’s only calling them battleships because as a fascist he has a simplified understanding of history and a fetishization of the past. these are surface to surface missile launch platforms with helicopter landing pads
I’m no expert, but given the distributed nature of the stuff I’m seeing with Ukraine against Russia, I would think a “not all eggs in the same basket” approach would be the best idea
Yeh, even carriers are considered potentially outdated by some military planners should the US ever face an opponent that can actually fight back.
Why put 50 billion into one weapons platform when it can be sunk by a cheap drone?
I don’t get it.
Narcissism and cronyism. What other reasons does trump ever do things for?
Will they be gold-plated?
There’s a reason we don’t have battleships anymore all around the world.
If you put all the firepower on one platform, you lose everything when that platform sinks. With the sophisticated asymmetrical weaponry out there, plus the ability to use cheap drone swarms, it’s much smarter to spread the firepower over multiple platforms.
But diaper Donny the crooked pedo wants what all dictators want: compensate their micropenis with everything made bigger and more impressive than others while adding their name onto everything.
One torpedo and your golden battleship will be a very effective new coral reef.
yeah, they’ve been pushing for smaller and smaller carriers from what i hear from my former (he earned that former) marine bil
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The world’s first orange battleship that fucks kids
It was probably easier for the DoW to pretend that this cruiser is a battleship than to make Trump understand that the battleships he keeps demanding are useless in a modern war.
He only knows the word from seeing the board game that one time him and Epstein snorted coke off it
Is this like space force or the golden dome? Ie. a steaming pile of bullshit from the Swiss cheese mind of a dementia ward patient??
Space force might actually be a good idea, despite all the bs and misrepresentation. I can’t claim to know anything about military chain of command but if they say it’s beneficial to have a separate org focusing on space assets like satellites, I have no reason to claim otherwise
Not a good idea
