The Trump Thread

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shavenferret said:

So, Trump is designing a new battleship class that will of course be named after him. It's probably going to actually play out a lot like when Homer Simpson designed a car for the average guy and loaded it up with a lot of stuff that was useless and costly.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/us/trump-new-battleships-analysis-intl-hnk-ml


https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/us/trump-new-battleships-analysis-intl-hnk-ml

It's beyond dumb what he's doing there.

1. Battleships are old, outdated technology and simply can't compete with carriers in terms of range.

2. He's claimed it would become the biggest battleships ever made. So this means they would need to become larger than the Bismarck and the Yamato, as in, giant targets with thousands of sailors on board to run the ships efficiently and needing several years to build one, let alone 25, at a time where US shipyards can't fulfill the orders they already have in the pipeline, and have several failed projects that piled up in the last couple years like the constellation class ships.

China is probably rolling on the floor laughing at the thing right now...