A naval aircraft carrier under construction is slated to bear the name of an enlisted sailor, the first for an African-American. Or was.
The Navy is planning to replace Doris Miller’s name on the ship, possibly with that of president Donald Trump, CNN reports. No carrier in the US Navy has ever been named for a sitting president.
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Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 15d
I like to think he's so desperate to honor himself because he knows history won't.
Wytch@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 15d
This is exactly it. He's hoping to brand as much as he can while he's alive. The Kennedy center was a huge blow to his ego. He'll use the board to gild the whole thing so it'll cost millions to undo.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 15d
They voted to carve his name into it so that it can't be undone. Bitches don't know about patching, and filling.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 15d
It's marble, not concrete. Anything that gets engraved is going to be visible no matter what.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 15d
Remove a section and replace, then. It wasn't carved in place.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14d
Yeah, it's a literal facade.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 15d
Like a dying dog, he'll pee on everything in a desperate attempt to mark his territory before he, y'know, dies.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 15d
He's always been this way. He's a rapist and he wants to force himself on the whole world. It's narcissism and evil.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 15d
Weirdly, history has whitewashed plenty of fascists and murderers. We always assume the truth is what survives in the long run but this is hardly guaranteed.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 15d
We can chip a huge turd out of a Mountain and call it the Trump monument.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 15d
Sure, but even better would be to give him absolutely no further attention at all.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d
100%
BuckFutter@timeyak.com · 39 pts · 15d
Trump really hates wartime hero’s, doesn’t he…absolutely deplorable.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 15d
Especially black ones. Thats mostly what this is about
tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 15d
Doris Miller: mans a machine gun during an attack
Donald Trump: mans a catering truck during a potential attack
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 15d
You mean the draft dodger?
Cjwi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d
Trump is our real black war hero
savvie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 14d
Yes, President Donald J ‘Dickfarts’ Trump!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 15d
Idk, there's definitely something fitting about 200 half-starved sailors doing the hover-ass over malfunctioning toilets on the USS Donald J Trump.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d
Yeah but it’s weird to name any structure after Trump when only
consentingadults are having sex inside it.UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d
The US Navy has a long and storied reputation for sexual assault. Practically back to it's founding.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 14d
Ah then USS Trump it is!
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 14d
Rape is common in the US military.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14d
Edited.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 15d
If it walks like a racist and it talks like a racist and it governs like a racist and it......
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 12 pts · 15d
When he was ranting about steam catapults -- that was this same ship he was talking about.
PorradaVFR@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 15d
Fuck no.
hamsamrich@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 15d
I’m just glad he’s old. Can you imagine if he was like 40 or 50? only a matter of time.
warbond@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 15d
Science has already unnaturally extended his life and I will never forgive it for that
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d
Science, the best medical drugs known to man, and a whole lotta spite.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 15d
The.US has been ruled by a single group of 1940-1950 babies. Thank god they eventually die but still...
opus86@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 15d
If they name it after Trump, it will just sink like everything else he does.
jestho@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 14d
I think it might actually turn into a slowly melting pile of shit
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 15d
I'm here for the USS Orange Jello
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 15d
USS Pedophile
MrTomS@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 15d
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 15d
I need this on my morning coffee cup
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
Damn good coffee
SouthEndSunset@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 15d
So they’re gonna call it Captain Bonespurs?
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d
The USS Epic Dumbass
Or maybe it'll be like ship names in Halo:
the USS Travesty of Greed
USS Racist Clown
USS Traitorous Fuckstick
blastosist@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 14d
The fact that over 30% of Americans support this is depressing.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 14d
Maybe he wants them to jump off the side before boarding this time.
If everyone who loves Trump would get in Navy ships our problems would be solved.