Burns through money faster than anyone I’ve seen.

Puppy Killer ran through her entire budget in the first month or two.

This is just another delusion. It will pass.

Just a guess.

The world’s militaries are failing to learn from the lessons of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, and from the current Ukraine conflict.

Submariner boasting aside, in the past couple of years we have seen how a few tens of thousands dollars worth of drones can destroy warships that cost in the 100s of millions. In the Falklands (about 40 years ago) Great Britain learned that a minor military power (Argentina) could destroy the UK’s best ships.* The only reason they didn’t lose their carrier to an (undetected) Argentinian submarine was because of a torpedo tube malfunction.

Submarines are not quite obsolete yet, but it is only a matter of time before underwater drone technology catches up.

*To be accurate , part of the reason for the UK’s losses were due to completely idiotic communication procedures that required all ships to simultaneously turn off their early warning radars in order to transmit/receive message traffic. Still, everyone was surprised how effective land based anti-ship missiles were.

...with all the stains he left on our country carefully scrubbed away. Works for me...

More vanity, more corruption, more distraction from his pedo past.

Because he's a "very aesthetic person".

He really is too too much.

Battle ships too. The hangover from all that shit was horrible.

That’s how I remember it, anyway.

There was an argument to be made at the time (and to a lesser extent today) that battleships had a role in laying down suppressing fire prior to a beach landing. Missiles are expensive and have a limited area of effect. Modern shipboard guns are fewer in number and lack the necessary “oomph”. The Army and Marines complained that getting air support from the Air Force or Navy was difficult.

There are various fantasy plans for retrofitting existing* battleships. Replacing their boilers with nuclear reactors would not only make them the fastest surface ships ever built, but free up room for supplies and ammo. Redesigned munitions for the 16” guns would give them longer range and would be immune to anti- missile technology.

What Reagan and the Republicans did screw up was planning a 700 ship Navy. This massive expansion was going to require a lot more sailors to be recruited far ahead of time. When that plan was scrapped, there was a glut of sailors with no place to put them. This screwed up advancement, and required both voluntary and involuntary separations. This screwed up the Navy for years.

By the way, please don’t think I am advocating for a bigger military or Navy. I agree with Eisenhower that we have a choice between guns or butter, and we have way more guns than necessary.

They were obsolete and ready to become museum ships.

BTW -I served on USS IOWA shortly after it was re-commissioned. Wasn't on board for the Turret 2 accident, but I knew almost all of the 47 Sailors that died that day.

USS Iowa turret explosion - Wikipedia https://share.google/A0Tx96IeUFSefTRM1

I'm sorry for your shipmates.

I haven't the time to look it up now.

because no matter how many hits it takes it will demand a recount and refuse to sink.

The Royal Navy's HMS Vanguard was the very last battleship ever completed and put into service. It was commissioned in 1946 and scrapped in 1960.

The USS Trumptanic

In a long winded and totally demented confabulation with some admiral he was talking with, Marshall Vladimir Bonespurs talked up how our fleet as ugly and the Navy should “bring back” the big beautiful battleship. True story. He’ll do anything to distract from his treasons, evil, perversions and historic criminality. So, yeah, go ahead and launch the USS Epstein Island, wingman.

USS Epstein Island

The USS Captain Bonespurs? The USS Epstein?

Not warships in general? Battleships? The ones that became obsolete for anything but shore bombardment once aircraft carriers were a thing? The ones whose role was restricted once the Mahan Doctrine (single massive engagement between navies) was made irrelevant by naval air power?

They were certainly effective at shore bombardment - they were used for that until the Gulf War in 1991 - but unless we plan to bombard a bunch of shores in the near future, this is a vanity project that will hopefully be cancelled in the near future.

And if - which I find highly unlikely - a warship is ever named after Old Colostomy, the name will be a curse. I'd be surprised if it didn't sink minutes after being launched.

guided solid fuel rockets, anything above surface will last about 24 hours.”

Quote from a couple decades ago.

With modern military drones, the outlook for surface ships has not improved. Consider the fate of the Black Sea fleet.

Think of the Soviet Kirov class battlecruisers

When do the “Trump Enema” packs come out?

A six pack will cost you $39.99.
Seen them advertised on Fox Snooze.

Seriously. Is he gifting them to Argentina or Russia?

Hobbling our Navy with a fleet of obsolete deadweight? Can't imagine which superpower nation would stand to gain.

I am astounded that Mar-a-Lardo has a library.

Second, what is going to get cut from the budget so these magic ships can be built?

...has no class.

and no shame.

"Trump" and "class" is the biggest contradiction in terms ever.

over it with gold paint. Asshole.

Making it seem like the military artillery tanks ships etc as well as personnel were not up to standard “before” he took office.

Hate him with the heat of 1000 suns.

Flanked by renderings of the “Trump class” battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design.

Umm, sir, gold leaf highly reflects radar.

TRUMPLAND...

..... whether the vessel itself ever would be built

From the WaPo article about the announcement:

Is it time to pull this psychotic clown out of office yet?

So smaller than the NC, SD and IA classes, as well as......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-class_battleship

Trump's notice.... Now he's planning to build battleships bigger than the Yamato and Musashi?


Let's buy him some toy boats for his bathtub and call it good.
We can spray-paint them golden if he insists.

Japan not knowing where the U.S. carriers were saved a lot of ships that day.

The first ship.

Nuclear attack subs are Ohio Class but each subsequent boat is named after a different state.

Does this mean the following ships will be named after his family?

BTW it isn't a battleship. We don't use those any more. He has no idea what he's talking about.

"Our President" has found a hobby and will bring back the Battleship. His advisors and even some Navy people are astounded at the genius and strategic brilliance of this idea that somehow no Naval experts could or would ever think of. They said, "Sir, what an astounding idea!" They even let him announce it, in public, with a live microphone. This will be his Legacy. DOA in 2029.

in time for silkworm missiles to sink battleships and carriers at will.
I remember Trump saying he knew more about the military than flag officers.

got in a process no one can explain?

What about the bidding process, design, equipment, etc.

Or is this going to be like destroying the WH East Wing, which he did because no one told he couldn't.

How you feel about that?



JFC what a shitshow.

The USS Mississippi fired the last salvos against the Japanese battleships. They deployed in the age old naval formation a "line" .They became relics after that.

Carriers and air power made them useless, unless being used for landings and bombardment.

There's a valid reason the last battlship keel layed down by American shipbuilding was in 1944.

for Trump's latest Treasury looting.

But meanwhile he is causing complete chaos in Navy planning, and confirming the actual collapse of Naval shipbuilding. More than anything, this sends a message to China that the strategy of building up their Navy is working well. I'm sure it gave them a good laugh, too.

Nah...he's never done anything with his kids except ogle his daughter and want to date her.

One sick,sick fuck.

Sticking his name on everything is especially difficult to defend as it so plainly does little to meet the nation’s needs.

The personalization of government is advancing at ridiculous speeds:
- Trump-class battleships
- Trump’s name added to Kennedy Center, Institute for Peace
- legal-tender coin featuring Trump’s face (on both sides)
- Trump Gold Cards
- Trump Accounts
- F-47 fighter jets
- 47-day ICE training

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-23T14:04:44.654Z