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BumRushDaShow

(165,156 posts)
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:05 PM Monday

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".
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johnnyfins

(3,385 posts)
2. Because nothing says 2025 like "Battleships"
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:25 PM
Monday

What an idiot. Gonna be fun to reset all of this. Dem POTUS should remove or rename to Obama.

ananda

(34,305 posts)
4. If they're not rusted out buckets by then.
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:30 PM
Monday

I wouldn't expect anything less than cheap
and incompetent from Trump.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,496 posts)
5. Trump said he's going to co-design them, with the Navy
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:35 PM
Monday



'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.

Mustellus

(408 posts)
6. The Japaneese attack at Pearl Harbor...
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 07:12 PM
Monday

... sank most of our pacific fleet battleships, but totally spared the aircraft carriers.

Thereby winning the pacific war for us...

mahina

(20,336 posts)
9. Hey, come on. Thereʻs at least a fair shot at several hundred million flowing through to Himself.
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 11:04 PM
Monday

In other news, I half hear Him saying it will be designed in two weeks.

Justice matters.

(9,281 posts)
11. Is "rump class" synonymous with "bone-spurs deferments"
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 11:39 PM
Monday

pedo the felon is 10 y-o...

No offense to real 10 year-old's.

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