Trump plans new 'Trump-class' Navy ships bearing his name
Source: Raw Story
December 22, 2025 5:18PM ET
President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans Monday for a new class of Navy warships that would bear his name, according to multiple news outlets citing a Pentagon official familiar with the proposal.
The official, who requested anonymity to preview the plan, said the Navy is expected to refer to the vessels as Trump class battleships, which the White House envisions as the centerpiece of what Trump has described as a new Golden Fleet.
Trump is scheduled to appear later Monday at his Mar-a-Lago beach resort in an appearance that will also include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, where the announcement is expected to be made, the New York Times reported Monday.
Trump has long criticized the appearance of U.S. Navy warships, previously calling them terrible looking and complaining they were covered in rust. During his first term, Trump reportedly weighed in on naval design choices and at one point advocated for a return to steam-powered aircraft carriers a proposal that ultimately went nowhere, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rename/
NYT has this as one of their "Live Updates".
twodogsbarking
(17,476 posts)johnnyfins
(3,385 posts)What an idiot. Gonna be fun to reset all of this. Dem POTUS should remove or rename to Obama.
ananda
(34,305 posts)I wouldn't expect anything less than cheap
and incompetent from Trump.
underpants
(194,584 posts)Golden fleet?
muriel_volestrangler
(105,496 posts)Link to tweet
'Trump: "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person"'
This is the most humiliating military announcement in the history of the USA.
Bayard
(28,358 posts)Hide the Sharpies!
Cha
(316,437 posts)"aesthetic" What happened to his GD Ugly face:
Mustellus
(408 posts)... sank most of our pacific fleet battleships, but totally spared the aircraft carriers.
Thereby winning the pacific war for us...
Kid Berwyn
(22,712 posts)Fortunately..
mahina
(20,336 posts)In other news, I half hear Him saying it will be designed in two weeks.
Justice matters.
(9,281 posts)pedo the felon is 10 y-o...
No offense to real 10 year-old's.