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.
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DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 244d
It was probably easier for the DoW to pretend that this cruiser is a battleship than to make Trump understand that the battleships he keeps demanding are useless in a modern war.
phaedrus@piefed.world · 44 pts · 244d
He only knows the word from seeing the board game that one time him and Epstein snorted coke off it
jeffw@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 244d
Next Dem should reclassify “Trump Ship” to mean the shittiest possible boat. Leave it as a classification, just redefine it
ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 244d
Guy is so vain. If it isn't a re-badge of a project. Lay a keel or two and they'll rot in the yard before completion.
Drusas@fedia.io · 11 pts · 244d
Those ships that you need to get rid of but it's too expensive to get rid of them so you just have them rotting away somewhere.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
oh hey i live near there. the mothball fleet is pretty cool actually.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
If this was a just world, it would be the name of the leaky prison hulk that he's chained up inside.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 49 pts · 244d
Wow, I thought this was a joke.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 244d
Not in this timeline buddy!
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 244d
I thought the Kennedy rename was an onion article. What the fuck
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 244d
I'm calling it: Trump is one Western movie watch away from ordering the military to bring back cavalry.
tal@lemmy.today · 28 pts · 244d
https://sopuli.xyz/post/38499583
The Napoleonic era is coming back, baby.
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
"halted"
Eeeeexcelllleeent
just2look@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 244d
We still have the cavalry, stetsons and all. Unless you mean like actual horse cavalry. The U.S. Army still maintains horses and stables. But the horses are mostly just for ceremonial/parade purposes.
tal@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 244d
It's a very small unit, though, from memory.
Also, occasionally US special forces have used horses in unusual, rugged terrain. There was some unit in Afghanistan that had some technical claim to being the most-recent cavalry charge in history.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mazar-i-Sharif
just2look@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 244d
Ceremonial horse cavalry is small, but 1st Cavalry Division still exists. Its more light armor and mechanized infantry instead of horse cavalry though.
tal@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 244d
Do they actually have horses?
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Apparently yes, though it's not huge either and it sounds like they're being dissolved too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_Horse_Cavalry_Detachment
just2look@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 244d
Oh, I hadn't heard they were being dissolved.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
those poor horses
just2look@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 244d
I feel a little bad about laughing at that
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 243d
Special forces it makes sense, but regular assault troops it’s just desperate.
Drusas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 244d
No no no, you don't understand. This one is going to be more than a hundred times more powerful because it's going to be bigger and faster!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
moped cavalry?
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 244d
Dunno. They're quite easy to spot, aren't they?
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 244d
you get 100 of them in formation and light the enemy on fire with the sun's rays
pentastarm@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 244d
Mysterious Cities of Gold intensifies....
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
I read that in the announcer's voice.
PetteriPano@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
The colour seems right, but the proportions are easy off.
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 26 pts · 244d
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet in this thread.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 244d
This is the rare case where I don't actually disagree. Then again, I think he'd do this narcissistic nonsense even if people didn't care about Epstein. Creating petty distractions is just a habit for him, and it has always served him well.
sirico@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 244d
Sir the autopilot is hard coded to go to some island
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 240d
Whoops let me just…. flips switch
pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 243d
Sir. The battleship is unavailable because of its bone spurs
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 241d
That's cause it's entirely made out of bone spurs.
Scottyc65@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 244d
Naming a class of ships after a (checks notes) draft dodger. Makes sense to me.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 244d
There's a reason we don't have battleships anymore all around the world.
If you put all the firepower on one platform, you lose everything when that platform sinks. With the sophisticated asymmetrical weaponry out there, plus the ability to use cheap drone swarms, it's much smarter to spread the firepower over multiple platforms.
But diaper Donny the crooked pedo wants what all dictators want: compensate their micropenis with everything made bigger and more impressive than others while adding their name onto everything.
One torpedo and your golden battleship will be a very effective new coral reef.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
yeah, they've been pushing for smaller and smaller carriers from what i hear from my former (he earned that former) marine bil
ameancow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
Etterra@discuss.online · 20 pts · 244d
So it'll be 300% over budget, be riddled with problems from cutting every possible corner, torpedo itself, blame Biden, and then explode in public?
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 243d
It's entirely possible it will simply be a scheme to transfer billions of dollars into their own pockets. Things gonna be made out of sheet aluminum and zip ties and cost 30 trillion dollars
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
I was going to ask whether this was a trump "sharpie on map but we can ignore it once the press briefing is over" kind of situation or more of a "musk drew a couple of lines, glue them on with water soluble non-heat-resisident" kind of situation.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
So, Trumped up.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 244d
Bastard is trying to put his name so many places it’ll be damned near impossible to get rid of them all.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 244d
Has anyone seen a good list?
Name on:
Face on:
What am I missing?
yeather@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 244d
I bet the ballroom will eventually be dedicated as the “Donald Trump Memorial East Wing Ballroom” if it ever gets finished.
tal@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 244d
That battleship appears to have no large guns, a stealthy hull, a helicopter platform, and I doubt armor, given the superstructure.
This kind of comes off to me like some of Japan's "destroyers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-class_destroyer
I'm wondering if what happened here is that the Navy wanted a cruiser and Trump wanted more honors.
EDIT: I'd also add that tradition is almost always to name the class after the lead ship, but the "Trump class", assuming the artist rendition there is of the lead ship, appears to be of a USS Defiant, not the USS Donald J. Trump. Not that I'm complaining --- I've long prefered the old British Navy style use of names like HMS Invincible or HMS Glorious or whatnot stuff. The USS Enterprise for the US, etc.
EDIT2: Apparently, based on other articles, the hull classification symbol is "BBG", which has never been used, but would theoretically refer to a guided missile battleship, so it could have a bunch of VLS cells for armament. I'm a little hazy on what would distinguish it from a guided missile cruiser (CG), though.
SereneSadie@quokk.au · 10 pts · 244d
Archer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
It’s not right if the Defiant is captained by someone who isn’t a mall manager and space Jesus
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
it is in the hands of the prophets now, my child
Geobloke@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 244d
They could be talking about an arsenal ship? Basically a battleship size missile carrier with loads of VLS cells
I think the US navy did study the concept, but found that it was more survivable to spread those cells across more ships than to concentrate them in larger hulls
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 244d
See, this is more of my beef with the system - battleships have been named after states almost exclusively. If he wants a ship named for himself it should be a CVN.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 244d
That might be a good guess, perhaps two or three nuclear powered cruisers, fitted out for drone and anti drone work. Trumps gone and hijacked that.
I understand the Burkes were supposed to pick up the role the Ticonderoga class played, weren’t they?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 243d
There won't be any battleship.
This is just another grift to streak the government coffers dry
Same with the " golden dome", "doge", etc... all scams so his buddies can get lucrative contracts.
Even so, this is suuuuch a sad thing. A five year old would make a fantasy battle ship and name it after himself. Its pathetic
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 243d
boondoggle
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 243d
It's not even that. He's so desperate for any kind of legacy that he's throwing his name at anything he can in the hopes it will stick, not realizing that the first non-MAGA president will remove his name from everything.
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 244d
Is this like space force or the golden dome? Ie. a steaming pile of bullshit from the Swiss cheese mind of a dementia ward patient??
AA5B@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
Space force might actually be a good idea, despite all the bs and misrepresentation. I can’t claim to know anything about military chain of command but if they say it’s beneficial to have a separate org focusing on space assets like satellites, I have no reason to claim otherwise
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 243d
Not a good idea
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 244d
It’s gonna smell like shit and for some reason everything’s gonna lean towards the bow
DSN9@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 244d
Mega projects, no less with vanity as the centerpieces are a sign of weak militaries. The strong militaries are pursuing drone and anti drone technologies. Russian frigates warships are disabled by small Ukrainian aqua drones; and are hiding at port. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 243d
USS Bone Spur
hOrni@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 244d
The complex this man has about his small penis is insane.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 244d
The world's first orange battleship that fucks kids
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 243d
USS Floating Pedo Party Palace
Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 243d
Don't forget the;
and the new flagship,
projectsquared@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
You forgot USS Wind Turbine Cancer
Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 242d
USS Bird Murder
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 243d
Lol all good names. Also
USS Big Beautiful Boat
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 243d
USS Defendant
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 243d
USS Yuge
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 243d
The USS Implications
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 243d
😂🤣 Lol.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
They lost their island, they need a new home
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 11 pts · 244d
Here I am thinking how this will play out once MAGA ends. How was it in Germany after the war? I bet there used to be Hitler and Himmler Streets etc.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 6 pts · 244d
oh yeah, this fucker is gonna be erased. all that will be left is a cautionary tale.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 244d
Hopefully, to both.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
I WANT A PUBLIC SHITTER TOO
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 244d
Alladeen alladeen
peetabix@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 244d
So fart class.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 244d
Dude, I was literally thinking this a couple weeks ago, Trump bringing back battleships is completely on brand for him and I'm surprised honestly it took him this long
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 244d
Our military needs to start pushing back, international pressure of war crimes needs to be loud.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 244d
It's becoming increasingly hard to see him as a man and not a toddler.
Are we sure he "aced" all those tests he did lately?
Edit: I just saw the article's image of him showing the ship. Shit, it really looks like a bad render of a 90's videogame... How can people say he's mentally fit?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 244d
By the time they are actually finished being constructed, he will likely be long dead. Not even being malicious; military vessel construction is slow as balls.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 244d
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.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 244d
To paraphrase Utopia [AU]:
You don’t have to build it, we just need to announce it.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 244d
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)
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 243d
Didn't we stop using battleships once stuff like guided missiles started being common?
We've seen in Ukraine how much destruction cheap drones can do when used intelligently.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 243d
he's only calling them battleships because as a fascist he has a simplified understanding of history and a fetishization of the past. these are surface to surface missile launch platforms with helicopter landing pads
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
I'm no expert, but given the distributed nature of the stuff I'm seeing with Ukraine against Russia, I would think a "not all eggs in the same basket" approach would be the best idea
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Yeh, even carriers are considered potentially outdated by some military planners should the US ever face an opponent that can actually fight back.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 243d
As soon as the next president comes in, it's scorched earth time.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 244d
Why put 50 billion into one weapons platform when it can be sunk by a cheap drone?
I don't get it.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Narcissism and cronyism. What other reasons does trump ever do things for?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 7 pts · 244d
I finally watched The Apprentice yesterday and somehow all I can think about him now is "what a sad, sad, sad little man". Feels freeing.
(I say this as a non-USian)
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 244d
Yeah, we'll be changing that. In the future, it will be illegal to name anything after traitors, and that includes Confederate Civil War officers, and all MAGAs.
Anybody that objects will be investigated as a Domestic Terrorist, and if found to be actively MAGA, will go to prison.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 243d
The name Trump will be treated like the name Adolf. Orange spray tans will be the new Charlie Chaplin mustache.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 244d
They said he's a narcissist
middlemanSI@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
Are they going to deploy those in Gulf of Mexico?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
Does he know trump means fart?
tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 244d
A-maga-d, that is huge small penis complex 😱
DCErik@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 243d
How about a dump truck?
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
Given his long list of failures and placing the most incompetent people into important positions, this ship will most likely do a Wasa on launch.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 244d
Is that an AI-generated pic?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 244d
bstix@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 243d
If this ever get build, it'll sink on the maiden voyage from the weight of the golden cannons just like everyone knew it would but nobody in charge dared tell the king. Oh wait, that was another time and place.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 243d
Why are we building battleships? Aren’t they obsolete? Like at this point isn’t the whole edge for naval dominance submarines?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
I think ukraine has shown its small naval drones, both submersible and non-submersible.
LordCrom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Battleships are meant to bombard land positions... not go ship to ship. Leave that to the escorts.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 243d
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
Will they be gold-plated?
RottenHeads@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
Pedo ship?
AA5B@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
What a load of crap that is.
However it’s not going to happen. These would take way more years to develop than Trump has in office and I have to hope sanity will prevail. And if we can’t even develop the Zumwalt destroyer how can we hope to develop some boondoggle four times its size and complexity. How can the navy afford to run such things? And most importantly how can we deploy this big fat target that doesn’t add value?
Navy is complaining that it can’t keep up with Chinese shipbuilding so the last thing it needs is to blow its budget over the next decade or two with this nonsense. I have to believe this is just noise to placate Trump and will be resolved when he’s gone. However it will set the navy back another four years and waste billions of dollars
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
I hope EVERY SINGLE OFFICER assigned to those ships resign.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 243d
That’s nice grandpa, but it’s time for your nap before you rage tweet all night.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Haven't drones made these obsolete? A swarm of Chinese drones would cripple one in a day.
GaryGhost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
That's a good point, but it seems so obvious. I would we have a giant EMP or laser pointer thing that could wipe them out. Idk, just seems like they should have thought of that
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d
Fair point. I know Ukraine had been using them successfully. Maybe fiber optic drones? I feel like this is the new arms race.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
The chomo fleet?
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 243d
USA has nothing to do but spam stupid news. Fixed it for you.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 243d
Literally the only way to associate the name Trump with Class.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 244d
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
"Bubba Buckets"
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
USS pedo express