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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    Whoever is next is going to be busy enough in their first term just taking Trumps name off things.

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    It’ll never get made. We have heard enough time filling the destroyer and submarine orders the navy ordered 20 years ago. Those and drones are where sea warfare is going. Battle ships are billionaire dollar targets that can be taken out my a $5 million dollar missile. As Russia about how they were forced to ancher or remove their fleets around Ukraine. All by stuff you can buy at home depot. Modern warfare made battleships obsolete around 1947.

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    best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.

    The enemy are going to be so stunned by it’s beauty they won’t shoot at it!

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    Maaan if I was president I would name it the Nautilus class or something cool like that. I mean, after fixing the nonsense this bozo did first.

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    Kinda funny that it’s a battleship of all things. Really shows you the sort of brainless nostalgia that’s running things. The end of this gerontocracy can’t come soon enough.

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      It was probably planned as the Defiant class but the Dorito Dictator isn’t going to be happy until he’s named every single thing after himself.

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    This thing knows he is dying and knows his name will be known for so very many bad things…but it still wants to be remembered.

    The orange buffoon wants to ‘muddy the waters’ of his shitty legacy by trying to erase his desires of raping women and kids and thinks by naming everything he can after himself people will forget what he’s done.

    The thing thinks that in the future the word tRUMP will be synonymous with battle ships and art centres. The obese kiddie fiddler wants to be remembered like Kennedy is remembered…but decent people and decent countries will only remember him as Epstein’s rape buddy. A racist, fascist, child fucking convicted rapist.

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    US already doesn’t have the shipbuilding capacity to lay down the hulls we’ve already got planned for years, but yeah go on.

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      Before I read your comment, I was about to suggest renaming them Buffoon or Baboon Class.