>President Trump will announce Monday that the Navy is to build a new “Trump-class” battleship, which will become the centerpiece of the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet,” according to a U.S. official.>He has been personally involved in crafting plans for the Golden Fleet, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. The first ship in the class will be the USS Defiant, the official said.>Over the past few months, a Navy team developed and approved requirements for the new class of large-surface combatants, according to the U.S. official. The new ship will weigh 30,000 tons, larger than current destroyers, and have the ability to add future weapons like electromagnetic rail guns and directed energy lasers, according to one of the people familiar with the discussions.Battleshipbros, we are so back.
>>524145427WW3 is off to a great start
Arr me hearties!Call it the orange pearl.
>>524145427Please paint them orange
>US>shipsAnother 10 billion dollars hole in the water.
spare no expense
>>524145427more bullshit that will never come to actual fruition within 4 years and be cancelled by the next admin
>>524145427>the navy is STILL running the railgun scamit's all so tiresome
There isn't any problem with this EXCEPT we don't have the shipbuildng capacity and the government is too retarded to pay shipyard workers, you know, enough to afford either a car to commute there or to rent an apartment in the city near the docks so they can walk/take the train to their job. aND THE boomers in this country can never seem to figure out YOU NEED TO PAY PEOPLE ENOUGH THEY'RE WILLING TO DO THE JOB, YOU CAN'T JUST SCREAM "I DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH THAT MUCH ANYONE CAN DO IT" BECAUSE CLEARLY A FAT 75YO BOOMER CAN'T DO IT BECAUSE YOU'RE OLD.
>>524146040Naw, I think JD Vance will keep this.
>>524145427Trump loves seamen, confirmed
>>524145427New outrage just drop
>>524145427uh yes please
>>524145427>behold the new Trump battleships!>ships are made of Papier-mâché but cost taxpayers just as much.>surplus dollars go to billionaires>ships sink in harbor before even being deployed)>"Biden and the Democrats are to blame!"
>>524146174Republicans are on track to do poorly in the midterms. And if things continue the way they are going, a Democrat will probably win the next presidential election.
>>524145427So... there's a zero% chance that these ships ever get built, right? Its just going to be another money laundering scheme like the ballroom.
>>524146539You are applying logic and calculation on /pol/ that's your first mistake.
>>524146539that's the plan. They're going to blame the Trumpenomic train wreck on the libs.Despite controlling all 3 branches of government, the Republicans will claim that everything being fucked is Biden and the Democrat's fault. I mean shit they're already doing that.Party of accountability my ass.
>>524145427lol this orange retard is putting his name on everything before he dies
>>524145427>Golden FleetAt this point he is basically just Goldfinger.
>>524145427I wish it was a battleship. It looks like a destroyer or a missile cruiser.I'm disappointed.
>>524147108>Golden Fleet>Golden Fleeceand guess who's gonna get fleeced?and "buh buh Biden and the Democrats' fault!" in 3...2...
>>524146909There might be concepts of a plan, but there is no actual plan. I don't think Trump's coterie of retards are capable of long-term planning or strategizing. The incompetency around the ballroom is a perfect encapsulation of Trump's second term. Of course, the Dems are also retarded, so they might very well try to run Kamala or Hilary again.
>>524147645miriam adelson and alan dershowitz both already openly said trump could legally run for a 3rd term and they're donating him another 250m+
every time the administration comes out with some more cringe shit like this, I think to myself, "there's no way they will out-cringe this, this is so pathetic, they could not debase themselves further"and I am proven wrong every time
>>524145427>USS DefiantShould have been USS Tremendous or something.
>>524145427They are looting the country for all its worth at such an incredible pace it's mindblowing
>>524147645>The incompetency around the ballroom is a perfect encapsulation of Trump's second termi didn't follow the thing, did they cancel it after demolishing the other part?i mean it's a ballroom, it's nowhere remotely complex to build
>>524145427i hope they are automated, and they are drone ships or else this is retarded.
He's literally calling it the USS Siskos Motherfucking Pimp Hand
>>524145427will they dare actually use these new ships?
>>524145427Floating coffins. You need more submarines. Preferably drone operated with the ability to launch strategic nukes and drones with tactical nukes
>>524145427LOL nothing except littoral ships need to weigh 30k tons he wants something big and easy to hit??
btw they're outdated, look up what happened to picrel
What is the purpose of battleships in modern war anyways?
>>524145427>meanwhile in reality globohomo barely builds any ships at all lol
>>524146539>>524146909Burkes are aged, and Ticonderogas are ancient. Fleet is due to for massive replacements, you nigger faggotshits.
>>524145427If they don’t call the project Trump Card I would be disappointed.
>>524147831>could legally run for a 3rd termAnd they'd be wrong. Trump is ineligible to be president again; the 22nd amendment is pretty clear on this.>No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.Two terms, not two consecutive terms like I've heard some erroneously say. The Vice President trick won't work either because you have to be eligible to be President to be Vice President, according to the 12th amendment. > But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.So either Trump ratifies the Constitution, and good luck with that, especially after the midterms, or he tries a coup. I don't think Trump has the genuine will or stomach to try to seize a third term. Trump is a buffoon who loves the sound of his own voice.
USS Long Beach is back baby!
>>524148967>22nd amendment is pretty clear on this.Amemdments can be amended. And if its war-time...
>>524145427The USS Golden Armada
>>524147980Did you take your estrogen pills yet?YOU FUCKING LOST HARD!
>>524148967Trump is already barely coherent, I don't think he physically would be able to go for 3rd term.
>Can't even fix the ships they already have>Somehow will be able to make moreEverything is a fucking grift at this point
>>524146098We need ships to build to have facilities, so that's probably the push.
Why build battleships and not more aircraft carriers and nuclear subs?
>>524148590As the central fixture of a fleet they are outdated, but the concept of an arsenal ship dedicated to shore bombardment makes sense still. This is something they almost built utilizing leftover unfinished battleship hulls that were mid-construction as WW2 ended.
>Trump class battleship>Trump ballroom>Arc d' TrumpHonestly surprised he didn't name the Patriot games, the Trump games.
>>524145427Trump battleships will look like pic rel
>>524149148Yeah just like all the CHIP FACTORIES that were promised where they had to fire all the American workers and literally import Koreans And still this shit barely produces anythingNothing is going to change until Boomers start living in reality >BILLION DOLLAR HOUSES>3 DOLLAR WAGE>GET TO IT WAGIE
>>524148967As a famous canadian philosopher once said:Never say never - justin bieber
>>524149158If you want to do shore bombardment, just make a metric fuck ton of cheap glide bombs. The US airforce is big enough to drop them on any target at a high rate.
>>524146539democrats wont be able to win again ever if they don't change their strategynon-whites all hate each other and none of them trust anyone outside their ethnic group besides whites, all of them also wont vote for womennational elections are a totally different beast compared to state elections, don't think there will ever be another black or brown president again because its not gonna happen until they get an ethnic majority, only whites will vote for browns
>>524145427He has limited ways to get money to those very expensive ships. a) More taxes/tariffsb) Make more debts to USA goverment...38 trillion is clearly not enoughc) major cuts to military spending somewhere elsed) major cuts to healthcare and sicial services.e) making US military as corporation by own rich people.6 all aboveProbably nothing will happen. No ships.
>>524145427>US is making a new class of battleships, to be called "Trump-class"When's he coming out with the "Trump" line of tanks?
>>524149269This is what he gave 20 billion to Milei for, Argentine will build the Trump-class battleships and test run them on the Malvinas.
>>524149296The Golden Trank
>>524149364Nah that was a favour by the dutch queen in exchange for more warmongering by rutte.
>>524145427USS Grift was taken as a name or something? My general understanding is it with the exception of carriers, ships were generally named after naval officers of some renown. Guess Trump needs another ego boost though. I fucking called it. That he will not be happy with the renaming of the Kennedy Center. The man is clearly on the hedonic treadmill, his ego can never be satisfied. After this we'll hear how the army needs a new type of tank, the Trump. Then the Air Force could use a new plane, the Trump. Just rename the fucking country to trumpland.
Based, sounds like a cool way to wasted billions of dollars on PowerPoints and schematics with no end result thanks to modern naval procurement syndrome
>>524149259Glide bomb launching missions wouldn't even be cheap if deployed from aircraft carrier based planes. Those work out for Russia because they build them, transport them via entirely ground based logistics, and launch the strikes from their land based airbases that allow for fast turnaround for additional strikes.
>>524149245Because it would make more sense to put the factories in Michigan, but michigan has unions and don't work for chinese slave wages like taiwan because they're engineers.The funyn thing is we DO have semi manufacturers like Skywater in Minnesota, near the lakewater, but they produce chips for the military instead of average people.Trump needed to be smarter and have American special development zones like china run by engineers and shit, but as long as MBAs are calling the shots w'ell have factories that require tons of water in the middle of the desert because unions are.... le bad.Boomers inheritaed a first world country and didn't understand the basics of how it worked from their parents and grandparents and now they're all dead and we're stuck with 70yo idiot board members and shareholders fucking things up.
>>524146539>Midterms mean shit for presidential electionDo you seriously not remember how fucking destroyed the Democrats got in 2010 and who won the 2012 presidential election?
>>524145427>battleshipsUseless
I think Trump is funny but this isn't going to work.
For me, it's Tirpitz.
>>524148439Didn't you hear them say we have 33 submarines? Fucking masonic faggots
>>524149571Your current orange retard will be schoolbook example what happens when narcism and egoism goes too far.
>>524149296We'll probably see a huge golden Trump monument in DC before the end of his 2nd term
>>524145427China will do to the USN what German tanks did to Polish cavalry, make a bloody mess out of them.Western powers are still stuck in the 20th century. Pouring resources into outdated and near obsolete assets like Aircraft Carriers and these battleships.The Ukraine War has been going for years now and these dumbfucks are learning nothing from it. Just like the French and British learned nothing from WW1 and so got curb stomped in WW2The next major war will be AI versus AI, drone versus drone, counter measure versus counter measure. All fought with semi autonomous systems on a dead man's switch.
>>524150139This nigger won't finish this term anon.
>>524150159AI and drones will easily be the first to disappear when initial wave of nukes detonate in space causing EMPs. It's plausible that all semiconductor assisted weapon systems will quickly vanish from the battlefield of the next ww
>slaps side of USS Nimitz>you can fit so many high school dropouts in this bad boy
I'm sure it will inspire the brown military personnel, spawned from his low wage hotel workers, to do great things just like Obama's DEI plans inspired many white CEOs to... mass exodus. Trump should at least address his military in Spanish. Where does he think he is?
>>524148466Today's weapons are good to a CEP of a couple meters, by this metric a "big ship" is anything over 12' long you moron.
>>524148243Maybe they'll be space battleships.
>It's AI slopVery fitting for this deranged retarded administration. These people are not fucking serious, they are a joke.
Lol. CEOs figured it out. Name it after Trump and he'll fund whatever it is.
>>524146450Kek
>>524149046The Cube?
>>524146098This You can't even make our nuclear subsWe've already paid tooHurry up yank
>>524149937Over Bismarck?
>>524145427The Trump-class ships will make a lot of noise and smoke but be completely useless and ineffective.
>>524147831Miriam Adelson claimed she talked to Dershy and that is what she thought he said.Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe there have been any independent reports of Dershowitz publicly stating an opinion.
>>524146539>>524149782>trust me broRepublicans won in 238 districts in 2024 but only won 221 seats. The democrats are fighting an uphill battle with redistricting and the shitty performance of governor hochlul in new york plus the california governor race. Plus it's actually illegal to openly announce you're gerrymandering so california's new map is being challenged kek. Republicans will gain 8 seats without that. No one in red districts thinks trump is in the wrong and democrats haven't provided any reason they should flip.
>>524146174Vance has no reason to kiss up to trump once his second term is over.
>>524145427>Battleshipbros, we are so back.I love winning. I keep getting what I voted forThe Trump class will also be flagships for command and control. Make battleships great again!
Threadly reminder not to reply to namefags
>>524145427What's the point of making even bigger battleships? That will just make them a bigger target, slower and more expensive
>sinks you for $25k + tip
>>524148176Its still being built People who shill against it are low iq and think its fine to host foreign dignitaries in a tent on the White House lawn and put up porta pottys for them to use, instead of building an actual ballroom for hosting foreign diginataries and other events
>>524154433Except he's already 2x the cost he initially announced first saying it's 200million and recently admitting that it's gonna be 400million, and he said that it wouldn't funded through taxation.
>>524145427TRUMPER CLASS
>>524150159China is literally across an ocean from us. We still need a Navy. Ships arent obsolete . It was also announced today that more amphibious ships will be built as well for the marines
>>524154527Its not funded by tax money. Rich people and some corporations donated money to fund it. Its going to be bigger than originally announced so the cost went up but its all funded privately through donations. A ballroom is much needed. Its unbecoming to host foreign dignitaries in a tent. An actual ballroom will be useful and more becoming and dignified to host people in, than a tent outside with porta pottys
>>524145427
>>524145427MAGA
>>524154754Rich people gave 200mil, Trump donated 200mill but then also demanded 200mill from the justice department for "reasons", guess where the justice departments gets it's funding, also you're not at all worried that a guy has already doubled the costs of a building project that hasn't even started to put it's first stone down.
>>524154527The cost doesn't matter because it's all bribes.
>>524149111>Trump is already barely coherent,Same was true of Roosevelt in 1945. He knew he wasn't fit for the job anymore, but used his popularity to ensure his chosen successor would be next president.Trump probably wants to do same.
>>524154938>hasn't even started to put it's first stone down.The demolition has been going non stop. The demolition has to be finished before the addition gets built. No i dont think that its an issue that it doubled in cost and will be larger. Might as well make it bigger to be able to host more people and itll get used by future Presidents for as long as its around. The money he is getting from DOJ is due to a suit he filed before he won the election and its compensation for legal costs for all the bullshit legal actions that Biden DOJ did. Im fine with him being compensated for that. I trust Trump to do a construction project well. Making the rose garden lawn into a patio was a good improvement A ballroom is needed. Other countries have ballrooms at their presidential buildings. We need one and it should be top tier and well done
>>524145427By the time the first battleships hit the water they were already obsolete. Aircraft and submarines made them useless. They did fuck all in WW1. They did fuck all in WW2 except eat up resources that could've been used better on carriers and destroyers. All they did after that was shell some 3rd world countries as portable artillery. There's a reason navies got rid of them.Drump is just a fucking retard who thinks it's a status symbol in his dementia.
>>524145427Yawn. Wake me up when they start making "land battleships".
>>524146449if that what US Navy looked like that would be sick as fuck
>>524148155it's no better here, scandal after scandal
>>524145427what kind of showers will there be on the golden fleet?
>>524146449I bet directed energy weapons of the future cant do shit to this
>>524145427All sitting yellow duckies in the water. Satellites and hypersonic glide vehicles will make the carrier deck and hulls of those ships swiss cheese. Navy semen will frantically watch their harriers, ospreys, and f35 version 3 all slide off the deck before they can finish their VTOL sequence. What happened with protecting Israel? Because Houthis challenged and you were sustaining damage. So you want to bully another country that has less to defend and use the cull of the drug wars for the reasoning.
>>524146539Hey fucktard the dems are literally going to be compaigning on running up the debt to get their migrants back in place. They haven't made a pledge to give up their commitment to migrant invasions, and their commitment drives up food prices, rent, and insurance, and drives down citizen employment. TRUMP ACTUALLY HAS SOLUTIONS IN PLACE.The dems are fucked.
>new Ship named after Trumpthe Retard class Battleship
>>524145427>battleshipskekWhat next? Ballistas? Crossbows? A giant wooden horse?
>>524145427Clown country.
>>524156889It will have launch tubes for hypersonic misssiles.
>>524156475>chink spies shine laser onto white house windows to detect vibrations to translate back into sound>all of trump's gold scatters the return into oblivion ruining their expensive operation forever>tfw (the t stands for trump)
>>524145427Centralised power is a weakness.Sitting duck in a modern battlefield scenario.
>>524156344Underrated kek
>>524145427> trump class battleshipSo, you're saying that it'll be a half assed copy a ship from before, but every bathroom on board will have a diaper changing station?
Battleship bros how about nuclear reactors and super trains instead?
>>524145427wew LOL, the First woman President U.S. elects will be in a perpetual sneer that Prime Minster Giorgia Meloni has overtly shown her sexual and anxiety desires.
>>524146449>Tacky gold retard classI mean it would fit his aesthetic.
>>524145427>America's dominance won't be ended by a nuclear holocaust or a deadly plague or an unprecedented natural disaster, but by one guy desperately trying to stroke his own ego.
>>524145804And put a big golden caption on them TRUMP
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>>524150159What if the AIs go rogue and take over?
>>524156068Adrastea-class or nothing. It can cruise through space, submerge itself in water, and roll on land!
>>524158951Amphibious warships might work in some situations, but what the fuck happens if that big ass wheel gets stuck or a flat? tracks are the go-to for fat fucks on land for a reason
>>524155396you are an accesory to money laundering
its going to be something like submarine drones that will be the next game changer
>>524161417Submarine drones on their own would be dogshit, but maybe combined with AI based sonar understanding, or some other source of vision, at some point someones going to make this as a replacement for mines and that would be really fucked
>>524145427The Iowa class battleships were giga based, highly recommend visiting one of them. The age of capital ships is coming to an end in general and carriers killed the battleships. This to me reads as just another avenue for the MIC to line their pockets and deliver a shitty broken product late and over budget. That, or it's a misguided attempt to emulate the high point of Reagan, but I am leaning more towards grift.
>>524145427I want to see rail gun accelerate a round to 1% the speed of light
>>524145427>named after president trumpThe golden shower?
>>524163813Double quarter pounder
>>524163577The only thing they can do now is a glorified artillery battery that is limited to ocean front. Even their new 'gauss' prototype weaponry isn't ready enough to theoritically revive the Battleships. So its gotta be grift. Not to mention fucking drones.
>>524145427Jfc, please paint it gold you retarded orange mushroom-shaped fuckstick>PAINT IT GOLDPAINT IT GOLD>PAINT IT GOLDPAINT IT GOLD>PAINT IT GOLDPAINT IT GOLD>PAINT IT GOLDPAINT IT GOLD>PAINT IT GOLDPAINT IT GOLD>PAINT IT GOLDPAINT IT GOLD>PAINT IT GOLDPAINT IT GOLDAnd then I want to watch it beach itself and sink in humiliating circumstances.
>>524145427That's so fucking cool im at a loss for words. Trumps going to make an Arsenal-gear class battleship with AI controlled rail guns, lasers and hypersonic weapons.The states is literally building a weapon to surpass Metal Gear and they're going to dip it in fucking gold. Holy shit, I cant wait to see this thing. It better be some type of megalomaniacal super leviathan size ship. Please, dear God, name the war-AI 'GW' in honour of George Washington.
>>524145427A battleship in the modern era named after Trump is very appropriate.
>>524145427KEKAROOO ROOO KEKAROOO ROOO ROOOO
>>524145427He lied about it being a 'battleship'. It's just standard new destroyer class ship with his name attached to it.
>>524145427BAZED
>>524165954As long as it's painted gold and sinks that's fine.
