Why else would he care?

They sail.

Building ships on the other side of the world is a license to steal. There would be absolutely no meaningful oversight, so the operation would be rife with corruption from day one.

There is no such thing as a win-win deal in Trump's rotting brain.

Great piss off our allies and then get them to build a US Navy ship. What could possibly go wrong?

in a shorter amount of time. Parallel manufacturing in multiple nations at once maybe? The Navy will remain hyper-critical in the next 25 years.

putin gave him a ball with a listing device, so whoever builds the ship will, not can but will, install listening and tracking devices thru out the ship. No they won't be able to locate them. The guy with the blond squirl on his head doesn't care it's exactly like everyone believes it's the GRIFT for his self enrichment and nothing more.

This is him trying to take credit for something he didn't do, so par for the course just on a different angle.

Biden allowed a South Korean company to purchase the company that took over part of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard so that they could improve it and increase capacity. The Navy has been talking about using South Korean yards for over a year as well.

Unfortunately when the cold war ended and we rushed head long into closing bases we also closed shipyards. Closing an army or air force base is a big deal but in the end it's just flat land, if you need to build a new one of those bases there is plenty of land especially in the west where you can do it. A shipyard is an entirely different animal, you need a port on a bay and the last time I checked we've built up cities and marinas around pretty much every port in the US. So when they closed Long Beach, Hunter's Point, Mare Island and the Philadelphia Navy Yard we lost most of that capacity. That doesn't just mean the ability to build new ships, it means the ability to repair existing ones as well. Right now on the West coast the navy can only drydock carriers in Bremeton, WA for instance.

It was a stupid shortsighted decision and one you can't go back from unless you take all that land back but nobody is going to do that.

All over the country. From San Diego California to Newport News Virginia and everything inbetween.
The smaller ones for the Coast Guard, Navy and Army can be built in Mississippi or Louisiana or Connecticut. Not counting the Naval shipyards in Virginia and Washington.
So we do have the capacity
It's skilled labor and the transitory nature of the trades that can hurt us.

Not to mention General Dynamics Bath Iron Works as well.

When a shipyard closes you lose a lot of skilled specialized labor.

That's why we still have two companies building submarines, even though we could get by with one, given our current rate of production.

Well, that and safety in not having all our eggs in one basket.

Does he mean his allies Russia, China and
N. Korea?

convicted felons "allies".

Do we have any left?

How many ship building employees are undocumented or here under asylum?

How do you build a ship with no one to weld? Asking for a friend…

equals - "I have no fucking idea what I am taking about".

Scratch that! It's not just building ships that he has no fucking clue about.

Actually, this might be a great idea.

Send Hegseth to Wanwol-dong in Busan and he'll get so drunk we may never see him again.

And when we build, there are meaningful delays and large cost overruns.

SK has capacity.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/february/united-states-must-improve-its-shipbuilding-capacity

They probably also don't have the same delay and cost overrun issues, either.

skills, and manpower to build ships here seems to me to be very much a national security concern.

We lost capacity after World War I that slowed us down and hurt us in the early part of WWII.

By law all ships have to be made in America and with only American sourced parts.
Also I have a feeling that Republicans controlled states like Louisiana and Mississippi might have a word. Not to mention California, Washington, Connecticut and Virginia. Not to mention that some ships source their parts from all 50 states.

Not to mention that some parts only have a single source and without orders for that part with go out of business and then we won't have a source for that part.

The allies will do anything for us?

I'm guessing that he's saying yeah we will continue to protect you for ship's. Pay up. Extortion plain and simple. Yet I'll bet it will be spun as deal making

Our former allies will be too busy reinforcing their own fleets.

all my old ibew brothers in pascagoula are overjoyed.

Maybe we could outsource our president. We would have a better chance of finding a sane one!

to a South African.

They've been building cutting edge Destroyer technology for 100 years.

I'll just bet.

My son works for General Dynamics. He always says he's surrounded by idiots at work. They are all MAGAs so he basically has to hold his tongue and it's been very stressful these last few months. RI would be devastated if we lose those high paying jobs. General Dynamics in RI is not unionized. Makes me sick that the idiot MAGAs are going to bring us all down with them.

The ones you are getting ready to knife in the back by leaving NATO, or your Russian allies?