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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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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago

I finally watched The Apprentice yesterday and somehow all I can think about him now is "what a sad, sad, sad little man". Feels freeing.

(I say this as a non-USian)

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

They said he's a narcissist

[-] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Are they going to deploy those in Gulf of Mexico?

[-] DCErik@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

How about a dump truck?

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Does he know trump means fart?

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Given his long list of failures and placing the most incompetent people into important positions, this ship will most likely do a Wasa on launch.

[-] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

A-maga-d, that is huge small penis complex 😱

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Is that an AI-generated pic?

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Why are we building battleships? Aren’t they obsolete? Like at this point isn’t the whole edge for naval dominance submarines?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think ukraine has shown its small naval drones, both submersible and non-submersible.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Battleships are meant to bombard land positions... not go ship to ship. Leave that to the escorts.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago

If this ever get build, it'll sink on the maiden voyage from the weight of the golden cannons just like everyone knew it would but nobody in charge dared tell the king. Oh wait, that was another time and place.

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Will they be gold-plated?

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

What a load of crap that is.

However it’s not going to happen. These would take way more years to develop than Trump has in office and I have to hope sanity will prevail. And if we can’t even develop the Zumwalt destroyer how can we hope to develop some boondoggle four times its size and complexity. How can the navy afford to run such things? And most importantly how can we deploy this big fat target that doesn’t add value?

Navy is complaining that it can’t keep up with Chinese shipbuilding so the last thing it needs is to blow its budget over the next decade or two with this nonsense. I have to believe this is just noise to placate Trump and will be resolved when he’s gone. However it will set the navy back another four years and waste billions of dollars

[-] RottenHeads@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I hope EVERY SINGLE OFFICER assigned to those ships resign.

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