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.
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
Wow, I thought this was a joke.
Not in this timeline buddy!
I thought the Kennedy rename was an onion article. What the fuck
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 not even that. He's so desperate for any kind of legacy that he's throwing his name at anything he can in the hopes it will stick, not realizing that the first non-MAGA president will remove his name from everything.
boondoggle
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.
They could be talking about an arsenal ship? Basically a battleship size missile carrier with loads of VLS cells
I think the US navy did study the concept, but found that it was more survivable to spread those cells across more ships than to concentrate them in larger hulls
Bastard is trying to put his name so many places it’ll be damned near impossible to get rid of them all.
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.
searches
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.
Alladeen alladeen
USS Floating Pedo Party Palace
Don't forget the;
and the new flagship,
Sir. The battleship is unavailable because of its bone spurs
USS Bone Spur
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.
How dare you suggest we not support our veterans! Those former-military-member owned contract companies need that money, don't cancel the umpteenth redesign/retrofit/scrapyard contract! (/s)
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
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.
That’s nice grandpa, but it’s time for your nap before you rage tweet all night.
Sir the autopilot is hard coded to go to some island
Naming a class of ships after a (checks notes) draft dodger. Makes sense to me.
Pedo ship?
Does he know trump means fart?
"Bubba Buckets"
Are they going to deploy those in Gulf of Mexico?
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?
The complex this man has about his small penis is insane.
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.
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
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
Why put 50 billion into one weapons platform when it can be sunk by a cheap drone?
I don't get it.
As soon as the next president comes in, it's scorched earth time.
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