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23. Umm, sir, gold leaf...

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:03 PM

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Flanked by renderings of the “Trump class” battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design.

Umm, sir, gold leaf highly reflects radar.

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President unveils new 'Trump class' fleet of battleships [View all] moonshinegnomie 13 hrs ago OP

This Asshole JBTaurus83 13 hrs ago #1

It's why he's had so many bankruptcies. Beartracks 12 hrs ago #7

Billions? Hundreds of Billions more like it bucolic_frolic 13 hrs ago #2

Do they have bone spurs? 31st Street Bridge 12 hrs ago #3

Good one! chouchou 6 hrs ago #44

Who is building these? Are there plans? 🤔 Srkdqltr 12 hrs ago #4

The American shipbuilding industry is on life support and cannot produce these ships . . . or any other ship AverageOldGuy 12 hrs ago #5

Yes, thats what i thought. Srkdqltr 12 hrs ago #9

All surface ships are targets, now more than ever. Shipwack 8 hrs ago #34

15 years? So, Dementia Donnie will be 94, out of office... CapnSteve 44 min ago #48

In 2 weeks. Beartracks 12 hrs ago #8

He's co-designing them himself. That really is what he said. muriel_volestrangler 12 hrs ago #10

The Reagan administration was building unnecessary Klarkashton 12 hrs ago #6

Not building, but taking out of storage, no? Shipwack 8 hrs ago #36

Yes, they took WW II Iowa class Battleships out of mothballs thought crime 7 hrs ago #40

I recall that they built new ones. It was a big deal at the time. Klarkashton 7 hrs ago #42

To be fair the tRump class will be AI controlled making it unsinkable yaesu 5 hrs ago #45

So Dipshit is designing ships now Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 12 hrs ago #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Omaha Steve 11 hrs ago #12

LMAO. Kid Berwyn 11 hrs ago #13

DUzy! love_katz 10 hrs ago #25

They will never be built. Nt Fiendish Thingy 11 hrs ago #14

Actual battleships? cab67 11 hrs ago #15

"In the age of relatively inexpensive microprocessor Strelnikov_ 10 hrs ago #19

No, they appear to be oversize guided missile cruisers sarisataka 9 hrs ago #26

Just another way to get his damn name out there in public. calimary 11 hrs ago #16

What an Asshole Akakoji 11 hrs ago #17

Gosh. Which hostile foreign power to whom Trump is indebted would benefit from this? Orrex 10 hrs ago #18

Well, officially we're the world's only superpower n/t Polybius 8 hrs ago #38

First of all, Bayard 10 hrs ago #20

Trump Class? Trump.... reACTIONary 10 hrs ago #21

pedo the felon has the "bone-spurs deferments" class Justice matters. 7 hrs ago #43

Thanks for beating me to it. Paladin 1 min ago #49

He's so good at putting down our military. And smearing ALBliberal 10 hrs ago #22

Umm, sir, gold leaf... reACTIONary 10 hrs ago #23

Not long before the good old USA becomes... Escape 10 hrs ago #24

It is questionable ..... reACTIONary 9 hrs ago #27

Hey America hadEnuf 9 hrs ago #28

30,000 to 40,000 tons? RetiredParatrooper 9 hrs ago #29

The Battleship became obsolete on December 7th, 1941, but that fact seems to have escaped Jack Valentino 9 hrs ago #30

I'm not sure that's totally true, especially in shore bombardment, but carriers had become much more important by then. Gore1FL 9 hrs ago #33

Cost overruns will be tenfold and it will sink at it's christening. Buddyzbuddy 9 hrs ago #31

Battleships were obsolete during WWII MissouriDem47 9 hrs ago #32

Battle this mofo🖕🏼 oasis 8 hrs ago #35

I was sure that this was an article from The Onion. nt Shipwack 8 hrs ago #37

The way the navy does it is the class is named for the christened name of the 1st ship. JohnnyRingo 8 hrs ago #39

This is Trump's Vanity Project thought crime 7 hrs ago #41

Another TACO Fantasy That will never happen. MissouriDem47 4 hrs ago #46

Doesn't congress have to approve the expenditure? Or is this like the $40 billion Argentina LastLiberal in PalmSprings 4 hrs ago #47