Ballrooms on Water? Some Potential Design Issues with Trump Class Battleships [View all]

High above the Arctic Circle but warmed by the Gulfstream, the port of Tromsø is gateway to northern Norway. It is also final resting place of the German battleship Tirpitz. She was sunk by a formation of British Lancaster bombers on November 12, 1944. Air attacks have doomed other great warships — the Yamato, Bismarck, Prince of Wales —to Davey Jones’ Locker. Memo to Trump: Battle wagons have become an extinct naval species.

Only they are now being recycled by our 47th president. As millions of his countrymen stand to lose medical coverage, POTUS wants to build us two “Trump Class” battleships.

Along with Greenland, the ships are deemed needed for national defense, another sign that George III was not the first mad king to rule over America. Sixteen-inch guns can give off a thunderous salute, to match an aerial flyover. Our POTUS specializes in strategic bling.

The Secretary of War, in letting shipbuilding contracts for the Trump’s warships, should flag certain design features. The Brits laid out a class of fast, powerful warships early in the 20th century, fast and lethal. But they had a flaw — insufficient armor on the ships’ upper decks.

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