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
Next Dem should reclassify “Trump Ship” to mean the shittiest possible boat. Leave it as a classification, just redefine it
Guy is so vain. If it isn't a re-badge of a project. Lay a keel or two and they'll rot in the yard before completion.
Those ships that you need to get rid of but it's too expensive to get rid of them so you just have them rotting away somewhere.
Wow, I thought this was a joke.
Not in this timeline buddy!
I thought the Kennedy rename was an onion article. What the fuck
I'm calling it: Trump is one Western movie watch away from ordering the military to bring back cavalry.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/38499583
Russia Continues Using Cavalry in Failed Assault, OSINT-Shared Video Reveals
Footage shared by the OSINT community shows Russian forces attempting to storm a Ukrainian position using a horse for transport, an assault that was ultimately halted by a Ukrainian drone strike, according to video published by Exilenova+ on December 22.
While unusual at first glance, the incident aligns with earlier reports indicating that Russian frontline units have increasingly relied on animals as substitutes for destroyed or unavailable military vehicles.
The Napoleonic era is coming back, baby.
We still have the cavalry, stetsons and all. Unless you mean like actual horse cavalry. The U.S. Army still maintains horses and stables. But the horses are mostly just for ceremonial/parade purposes.
It's a very small unit, though, from memory.
Also, occasionally US special forces have used horses in unusual, rugged terrain. There was some unit in Afghanistan that had some technical claim to being the most-recent cavalry charge in history.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mazar-i-Sharif
Photo showing U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers in "the first American cavalry charge of the 21st century"[19] with General Dostum and his forces (Taken October 2001)
Ceremonial horse cavalry is small, but 1st Cavalry Division still exists. Its more light armor and mechanized infantry instead of horse cavalry though.
Do they actually have horses?
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Apparently yes, though it's not huge either and it sounds like they're being dissolved too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_Horse_Cavalry_Detachment
The 40-soldier unit is equipped with 33 dark bay horses with minimal white markings which are outfitted with Model 1885 McClellan riding saddles that are hand-made by cavalry troopers in an on-site leather shop maintained at the unit's stables.
On 2 July 2025 the Army announced that the Military Working Equid program that includes the 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment will cease operations and associated assets (MWEs) will be transferred, adopted, or donated within one year.
Oh, I hadn't heard they were being dissolved.
The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a Golden Fleet.
Dunno. They're quite easy to spot, aren't they?
you get 100 of them in formation and light the enemy on fire with the sun's rays
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet in this thread.
This is the rare case where I don't actually disagree. Then again, I think he'd do this narcissistic nonsense even if people didn't care about Epstein. Creating petty distractions is just a habit for him, and it has always served him well.
Sir the autopilot is hard coded to go to some island
Sir. The battleship is unavailable because of its bone spurs
Bastard is trying to put his name so many places it’ll be damned near impossible to get rid of them all.
Has anyone seen a good list?
Name on:
Face on:
What am I missing?
Naming a class of ships after a (checks notes) draft dodger. Makes sense to me.
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.
So it'll be 300% over budget, be riddled with problems from cutting every possible corner, torpedo itself, blame Biden, and then explode in public?
It's entirely possible it will simply be a scheme to transfer billions of dollars into their own pockets. Things gonna be made out of sheet aluminum and zip ties and cost 30 trillion dollars
That battleship appears to have no large guns, a stealthy hull, a helicopter platform, and I doubt armor, given the superstructure.
This kind of comes off to me like some of Japan's "destroyers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-class_destroyer
I'm wondering if what happened here is that the Navy wanted a cruiser and Trump wanted more honors.
EDIT: I'd also add that tradition is almost always to name the class after the lead ship, but the "Trump class", assuming the artist rendition there is of the lead ship, appears to be of a USS Defiant, not the USS Donald J. Trump. Not that I'm complaining
I've long prefered the old British Navy style use of names like HMS Invincible or HMS Glorious or whatnot stuff. The USS Enterprise for the US, etc.
EDIT2: Apparently, based on other articles, the hull classification symbol is "BBG", which has never been used, but would theoretically refer to a guided missile battleship, so it could have a bunch of VLS cells for armament. I'm a little hazy on what would distinguish it from a guided missile cruiser (CG), though.
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??
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
It’s gonna smell like shit and for some reason everything’s gonna lean towards the bow
Mega projects, no less with vanity as the centerpieces are a sign of weak militaries. The strong militaries are pursuing drone and anti drone technologies. Russian frigates warships are disabled by small Ukrainian aqua drones; and are hiding at port. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
The complex this man has about his small penis is insane.
USS Bone Spur
USS Floating Pedo Party Palace
The world's first orange battleship that fucks kids
Here I am thinking how this will play out once MAGA ends. How was it in Germany after the war? I bet there used to be Hitler and Himmler Streets etc.
So fart class.
Alladeen alladeen
Dude, I was literally thinking this a couple weeks ago, Trump bringing back battleships is completely on brand for him and I'm surprised honestly it took him this long
Our military needs to start pushing back, international pressure of war crimes needs to be loud.
As soon as the next president comes in, it's scorched earth time.
It's becoming increasingly hard to see him as a man and not a toddler.
Are we sure he "aced" all those tests he did lately?
Edit: I just saw the article's image of him showing the ship. Shit, it really looks like a bad render of a 90's videogame... How can people say he's mentally fit?
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.
By the time they are actually finished being constructed, he will likely be long dead. Not even being malicious; military vessel construction is slow as balls.
Very bold of you to assume that any of them will ever finish construction. It feels like the US Navy has canceled more new ships than it's built in the past couple decades.
To paraphrase Utopia [AU]:
You don’t have to build it, we just need to announce it.
Why put 50 billion into one weapons platform when it can be sunk by a cheap drone?
I don't get it.
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