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.

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.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    16·
    2 days ago

    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

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    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?

    • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      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

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        1·
        2 days ago

        I was going to ask whether this was a trump “sharpie on map but we can ignore it once the press briefing is over” kind of situation or more of a “musk drew a couple of lines, glue them on with water soluble non-heat-resisident” kind of situation.

  • bstix@feddit.dk
    4·
    2 days 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.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    822·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
      451·
      3 days ago

      He only knows the word from seeing the board game that one time him and Epstein snorted coke off it

  • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
    3·
    2 days ago

    Battleships are the opposite of what any military needs right now. I mean, unless we’re literally going to start a war with China.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
    641·
    3 days ago

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

    • ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world
      26·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      11·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      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

      • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        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

        • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Yeh, even carriers are considered potentially outdated by some military planners should the US ever face an opponent that can actually fight back.