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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,350 posts)
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 08:01 PM 12 hrs ago

Critics Sink Trump's Bonkers Battleship Plans: 'Got The Design From G.I. Joe'

President Donald Trump unveiled a new class of so-called “battleships” on Monday, but his plans are already hitting rough waters on social media.

In remarks from his Mar-a-Lago estate, the president claimed that the two “Trump Class” military vessels would be the “fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”

Trump described himself as a “very aesthetic person” while noting that he, along with the U.S. Navy, would work on the design of the vessels. Trump said the administration aims to make up to 25 of the ships, thus adding to its goal of creating a “Golden Fleet.”

Renderings of the “USS Defiant” showed a vessel firing what appeared to be a laser beam and launching missiles. The vessel featured an illustrated logo of Trump raising his fist, as he did in the moments after the assassination attempt on him in Butler, Penn., last year.

Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.

Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) 2025-12-22T22:55:14.884Z


“WHOEVER DESIGNED THE TRUMP CLASS ‘BATTLESHIP’ GOT THE DESIGN FROM GI JOE,” Nance wrote.




https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/critics-sink-trumps-bonkers-battleship-033626717.html
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Critics Sink Trump's Bonkers Battleship Plans: 'Got The Design From G.I. Joe' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 12 hrs ago OP
I'm shocked they're not gold. sop 12 hrs ago #1
It looks like a second-rate videogame knockoff C_U_L8R 12 hrs ago #2
He can't even get fleece Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 7 hrs ago #15
Awfully small battleship. A good name for it would be USS Mushroom. It'd still have an apt TACO connection. marble falls 12 hrs ago #3
You know what they say C_U_L8R 12 hrs ago #4
It did the trick. Woodwizard 12 hrs ago #5
Elon Musk has leftover flat steel plates from Cybertruck bucolic_frolic 12 hrs ago #6
Vanity and grift. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #7
Brings to mind Reagan's "Star Wars" program PatSeg 12 hrs ago #8
"Trump Class" is the perfect example of an oxymoron. Dave Bowman 12 hrs ago #9
And I thought Hegsethwas Du916 11 hrs ago #10
If it is ever built it will sink as soon as it comes off the ways. GP6971 10 hrs ago #11
He never grew up past middle school fujiyamasan 10 hrs ago #12
Chump class ships will work as well as the elevators Hassler 9 hrs ago #13
Hah UTUSN 9 hrs ago #14

C_U_L8R

(48,791 posts)
2. It looks like a second-rate videogame knockoff
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 08:07 PM
12 hrs ago

They could have at least hired some budding fan-artist.
This is hack work.

Golden Fleet? More like Golden Fleece.

marble falls

(70,449 posts)
3. Awfully small battleship. A good name for it would be USS Mushroom. It'd still have an apt TACO connection.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 08:10 PM
12 hrs ago

Woodwizard

(1,260 posts)
5. It did the trick.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 08:11 PM
12 hrs ago

Another histrionic reaction to something that will never happen.

EPSTEIN FILES.

fujiyamasan

(1,127 posts)
12. He never grew up past middle school
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 10:28 PM
10 hrs ago

Or whenever that degenerate punk ass was sent to “military” prep school. He’s still playing with Gi Joes (thr entire US military) but of course he always rooted for the Cobras.

I can’t believe people think, yeah that’s the guy I want with the nuclear football.

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