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.

Next Dem should reclassify “Trump Ship” to mean the shittiest possible boat. Leave it as a classification, just redefine it

Wow, I thought this was a joke.

I'm calling it: Trump is one Western movie watch away from ordering the military to bring back cavalry.

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?

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet in this thread.

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.

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?

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.

Why put 50 billion into one weapons platform when it can be sunk by a cheap drone?

I don't get it.