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Monday, December 22, 2025

President Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement about shipbuilding alongside his Pentagon chief and Navy secretary on Monday, according to a person familiar with the plans. The announcement, set for 4:30 p.m. ET from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, comes amid a massive US naval buildup in the Caribbean Sea.

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The Navy on Friday announced it would commission a new class of frigates, built in the United States, as part of the new "Golden Fleet," which Trump envisions as a more advanced collection of ships meant to better counter China. Frigates are designed to protect sea lanes and protect larger vessels.

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Oh, let me guess. Big, beautiful Lewzer class battleships?

#1 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 04:10 PM | Reply

"President Donald Trump is set to announce a new type of battleship Monday that he has considered calling the "Trump class," a person familiar with the matter said, as he works to update a US Naval fleet he's said before is unattractive and rusty."

LOL.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 04:32 PM | Reply

"I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person ... ."
Who said that?
(A) Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
(B) Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
(C) Admiral of the Fleet Horatio "Horny" Hornblower
(D) Rear Admiral John "Jack" Aubrey, CB, MP, JP, FRS
(E) Donald J. Trump, Impressario

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-22 04:50 PM | Reply

If they named a Class of ships after Drumpf, it should be called the, "No Class" of ships.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 04:54 PM | Reply

Donald J. Trump, Impressario

Has there been anyone in history that was more of an egomaniac than Lewzer? He seems to have no limit.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 04:59 PM | Reply

"Lewzer to make shipbuilding announcement"

giphy.com

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-22 06:29 PM | Reply

These "battleships" will never be built. The Navy doesn't need or want them.

Somebody is trying to distract the Old Man from playing with the content of his diapers.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 06:46 PM | Reply

Trump has Victory At Sea stuck on repeat in the old Betamax he uses during "Executive Time."

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 06:48 PM | Reply

They said "frigate", he heard "faggot", and yelled THAT'S BETWEEN BILL AND ME.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-22 07:44 PM | Reply

Flanked by renderings of the "Trump class" battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design. "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me because I'm a very aesthetic person," Trump said. Fitted with "guns and missiles a the highest level," hypersonic weapons, electric rail guns, cruise missiles and the "most sophisticated lasers in the world," the new battleships will be the largest ever built. They will each weigh between 30,000 and 40,000 tons, he said, and will be built in the United States.
LOL. Any guess on the projected price tag of this fictional fleet?

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 08:29 PM | Reply

electric rail guns

Wait until this naval design genius finds out that rail guns operate the same way as the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System catapults that he hates so much.

Does he know a rail gun won't work if it gets wet?

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 08:50 PM | Reply

The rail guns will be powered by a turbine off the coal fired steam boiler on the S.S Trump.

#12 | Posted by Scotty at 2025-12-22 11:47 PM | Reply

The rail guns will be powered by a turbine off the coal fired steam boiler

Not to mention the lasers. Must be burning "clean coal", since there does not seem to be any exhaust stacks on the renders. Must not be aesthetic enough.

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-22 11:51 PM | Reply

The orange rapist's name isn't fit to spoil the rustiest garbage scow.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-22 11:52 PM | Reply

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