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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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[–] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sir. The battleship is unavailable because of its bone spurs

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 hours ago

That's cause it's entirely made out of bone spurs.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 points 2 days ago
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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Does he know trump means fart?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 23 points 3 days ago

Sir the autopilot is hard coded to go to some island

[–] Scottyc65@reddthat.com 21 points 3 days ago

Naming a class of ships after a (checks notes) draft dodger. Makes sense to me.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 80 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

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

USS Bone Spur

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

USS Floating Pedo Party Palace

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Don't forget the;

  • USS Boondoggle
  • USS Malignant Narcissist
  • USS Grifter in Chief
  • USS Beautiful Clean Coal
  • USS Shark Exterminator

and the new flagship,

  • USS Like Nobody's Ever Seen Before
[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

Lol all good names. Also

USS Big Beautiful Boat

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

USS Defendant

[–] projectsquared@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You forgot USS Wind Turbine Cancer

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

USS Bird Murder

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

😂🤣 Lol.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 63 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

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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[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

image

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet in this thread.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wow, I thought this was a joke.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago

Not in this timeline buddy!

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I thought the Kennedy rename was an onion article. What the fuck

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

As soon as the next president comes in, it's scorched earth time.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (13 children)

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

The world's first orange battleship that fucks kids

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Battleships are the opposite of what any military needs right now. I mean, unless we're literally going to start a war with China.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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??

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[–] DSN9@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

It’s gonna smell like shit and for some reason everything’s gonna lean towards the bow

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haven't drones made these obsolete? A swarm of Chinese drones would cripple one in a day.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 points 1 day ago

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 points 2 days ago

The chomo fleet?

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why put 50 billion into one weapons platform when it can be sunk by a cheap drone?

I don't get it.

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[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 points 2 days ago

The name Trump will be treated like the name Adolf. Orange spray tans will be the new Charlie Chaplin mustache.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

USA has nothing to do but spam stupid news. Fixed it for you.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

They said he's a narcissist

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