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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.
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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??
Surprised this hasn’t been posted yet in this thread.
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.
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.
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.
It’s gonna smell like shit and for some reason everything’s gonna lean towards the bow
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)
The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a Golden Fleet.
Dunno. They’re quite easy to spot, aren’t they?
you get 100 of them in formation and light the enemy on fire with the sun’s rays
Mysterious Cities of Gold intensifies…
The colour seems right, but the proportions are easy off.
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
Our military needs to start pushing back, international pressure of war crimes needs to be loud.
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.
oh yeah, this fucker is gonna be erased. all that will be left is a cautionary tale.
Hopefully, to both.
A-maga-d, that is huge small penis complex 😱
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.
He only knows the word from seeing the board game that one time him and Epstein snorted coke off it
Next Dem should reclassify “Trump Ship” to mean the shittiest possible boat. Leave it as a classification, just redefine it
If this was a just world, it would be the name of the leaky prison hulk that he’s chained up inside.
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.
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.
Wow, I thought this was a joke.
Not in this timeline buddy!
I thought the Kennedy rename was an onion article. What the fuck
I’m calling it: Trump is one Western movie watch away from ordering the military to bring back cavalry.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/38499583
Russia Continues Using Cavalry in Failed Assault, OSINT-Shared Video Reveals
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.
“halted”
Eeeeexcelllleeent
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.
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
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)
Ceremonial horse cavalry is small, but 1st Cavalry Division still exists. Its more light armor and mechanized infantry instead of horse cavalry though.
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.
Oh, I hadn’t heard they were being dissolved.
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!
