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The move comes amid outcry from Democrats after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affixed Trump’s name to its sign in Washington.
Donald Trump’s name is being attached to a new class of U.S. battleships that will have nuclear capabilities.
Making the announcement at an event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Navy Secretary John Phelan referred to the warships as “Trump-class battleships" and said a forthcoming vessel dubbed the USS Defiant will be “the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.”
Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.
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)