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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    The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a Golden Fleet.

    golden ship

    Dunno. They’re quite easy to spot, aren’t they?

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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      He only knows the word from seeing the board game that one time him and Epstein snorted coke off it

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    Next Dem should reclassify “Trump Ship” to mean the shittiest possible boat. Leave it as a classification, just redefine it

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      If this was a just world, it would be the name of the leaky prison hulk that he’s chained up inside.

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      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.

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      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.

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    I’m calling it: Trump is one Western movie watch away from ordering the military to bring back cavalry.

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      https://sopuli.xyz/post/38499583

      Russia Continues Using Cavalry in Failed Assault, OSINT-Shared Video Reveals

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      Footage shared by the OSINT community shows Russian forces attempting to storm a Ukrainian position using a horse for transport, an assault that was ultimately halted by a Ukrainian drone strike, according to video published by Exilenova+ on December 22.

      While unusual at first glance, the incident aligns with earlier reports indicating that Russian frontline units have increasingly relied on animals as substitutes for destroyed or unavailable military vehicles.

      The Napoleonic era is coming back, baby.

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      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.

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        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

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        Photo showing U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers in “the first American cavalry charge of the 21st century”[19] with General Dostum and his forces (Taken October 2001)

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          Ceremonial horse cavalry is small, but 1st Cavalry Division still exists. Its more light armor and mechanized infantry instead of horse cavalry though.

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            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

            The 40-soldier unit is equipped with 33 dark bay horses with minimal white markings which are outfitted with Model 1885 McClellan riding saddles that are hand-made by cavalry troopers in an on-site leather shop maintained at the unit’s stables.

            On 2 July 2025 the Army announced that the Military Working Equid program that includes the 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment will cease operations and associated assets (MWEs) will be transferred, adopted, or donated within one year.

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      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!

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    Bastard is trying to put his name so many places it’ll be damned near impossible to get rid of them all.

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      Has anyone seen a good list?

      Name on:

      • Donald Trump US Institute for Peace
      • Donald Trump Kennedy center
      • Trump class battleship

      Face on:

      • Gold card (the greencard you can buy into)
      • Annual National Parks Pass

      What am I missing?

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    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?