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(3,826 posts) Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:05 PM Monday

President unveils new 'Trump class' fleet of battleships [View all]

Source: cnn

President Donald Trump unveiled a new “Trump class” of Navy battleships Monday, describing them as a superior war fighting vessel to replace an “old and tired and obsolete” US fleet.

“They’ll help maintain American military supremacy, revive the American ship building industry, and inspire fear in America’s enemies all over the world,” Trump said in revealing the new category of vessel from the library at Mar-a-Lago.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/politics/trump-shipbuilding-venezuela-tensions

a waste of billions of dollars. and another reason to slash the defense budget

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President unveils new 'Trump class' fleet of battleships [View all] moonshinegnomie Monday OP

This Asshole JBTaurus83 Monday #1

It's why he's had so many bankruptcies. Beartracks Monday #7

Puppy Killer and Kash seem to be wasting money pretty well. travelingthrulife Yesterday #54

Billions? Hundreds of Billions more like it bucolic_frolic Monday #2

Do they have bone spurs? 31st Street Bridge Monday #3

Good one! chouchou Yesterday #44

Who is building these? Are there plans? 🤔 Srkdqltr Monday #4

The American shipbuilding industry is on life support and cannot produce these ships . . . or any other ship AverageOldGuy Monday #5

Yes, thats what i thought. Srkdqltr Monday #9

All surface ships are targets, now more than ever. Shipwack Monday #34

15 years? So, Dementia Donnie will be 94, out of office... CapnSteve Yesterday #48

In 2 weeks. Beartracks Monday #8

He's co-designing them himself. That really is what he said. muriel_volestrangler Monday #10

As soon as I get through laughing hysterically I'll be having a nice barf. ms liberty Yesterday #61

Russia orangecrush Yesterday #51

The Reagan administration was building unnecessary Klarkashton Monday #6

Not building, but taking out of storage, no? Shipwack Monday #36

Yes, they took WW II Iowa class Battleships out of mothballs thought crime Monday #40

Ask the USS IOWA (BB-61) how that worked out maxrandb Yesterday #62

That was a horrible event. thought crime 18 hrs ago #66

I recall that they built new ones. It was a big deal at the time. Klarkashton Monday #42

To be fair the tRump class will be AI controlled making it unsinkable yaesu Yesterday #45

No. The Iowa-class battleships were the last battleships the United States ever put to sea. Aristus Yesterday #59

So Dipshit is designing ships now Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Omaha Steve Monday #12

LMAO. Kid Berwyn Monday #13

DUzy! love_katz Monday #25

They will never be built. Nt Fiendish Thingy Monday #14

Thankfully the Fascist Felon will be dead before any of this sees the light of day. Dulcinea Yesterday #53

Actual battleships? cab67 Monday #15

"In the age of relatively inexpensive microprocessor Strelnikov_ Monday #19

No, they appear to be oversize guided missile cruisers sarisataka Monday #26

Just another way to get his damn name out there in public. calimary Monday #16

They are already on sale at the Trump store Hey Joe Yesterday #60

What an Asshole Akakoji Monday #17

Gosh. Which hostile foreign power to whom Trump is indebted would benefit from this? Orrex Monday #18

Well, officially we're the world's only superpower n/t Polybius Monday #38

First of all, Bayard Monday #20

Trump Class? Trump.... reACTIONary Monday #21

pedo the felon has the "bone-spurs deferments" class Justice matters. Yesterday #43

Thanks for beating me to it. Paladin Yesterday #49

He's so good at putting down our military. And smearing ALBliberal Monday #22

Umm, sir, gold leaf... reACTIONary Monday #23

Not long before the good old USA becomes... Escape Monday #24

It is questionable ..... reACTIONary Monday #27

Hey America hadEnuf Monday #28

30,000 to 40,000 tons? RetiredParatrooper Monday #29

The Battleship became obsolete on December 7th, 1941, but that fact seems to have escaped Jack Valentino Monday #30

I'm not sure that's totally true, especially in shore bombardment, but carriers had become much more important by then. Gore1FL Monday #33

Cost overruns will be tenfold and it will sink at it's christening. Buddyzbuddy Monday #31

Battleships were obsolete during WWII MissouriDem47 Monday #32

Battle this mofo🖕🏼 oasis Monday #35

I was sure that this was an article from The Onion. nt Shipwack Monday #37

The way the navy does it is the class is named for the christened name of the 1st ship. JohnnyRingo Monday #39

This is Trump's Vanity Project thought crime Monday #41

"will bring back the Battleship" The Wizard Yesterday #58

He is bringing chaos to the Navy. No one is saying how dangerous this could be. thought crime 18 hrs ago #67

Another TACO Fantasy That will never happen. MissouriDem47 Yesterday #46

Doesn't congress have to approve the expenditure? Or is this like the $40 billion Argentina LastLiberal in PalmSprings Yesterday #47

Hey D.U. Old Salts! orangecrush Yesterday #50

Batteships are dinosaurs. marble falls Yesterday #52

The last battleship on battleship engagement Battle of Surigao Strait Historic NY Yesterday #55

Battleships are nothing more than money-traps and vanity pieces for a 21st century leader Torchlight Yesterday #56

Congress hasn't budgeted a dime The Wizard Yesterday #57

Trump's dream-boat will never happen. thought crime Yesterday #64

Him and Eric setting around playing Battleship to come up with nonsense? Bengus81 Yesterday #63

MaddowBlog-Trump names battleship class after himself, advancing his personalization crusade LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #65