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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Trump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’

www.theguardian.com

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Trump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’

www.theguardian.com

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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President says the ships will be bigger, faster and a hundred times more powerful than any previous US-built warship
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  • Mark@lemmy.world
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    So half way build, then stop paying people, and then blaming everyone else for not finishing it, and then scrapping it all while blaming Biden for the “Very failed ships that Biden should never have started building” ?

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    So they’ll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?

    • Taco2112@lemmy.world
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      Don’t forget tacky.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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        Plated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.

    • Heikki2@lemmy.world
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      It will literally have a bridge to nowhere

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      I mean, that would’ve been true anyway, since battleships haven’t been useful since WWII.

      Trump’s involvement just means they’ll be extremely so.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      Seems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      Also completely incapable of telling friend from foe

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    Like a 4 years old: “but Mommy! At the kindergarten Kim said that he got an air carrier! I want one too!”

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    Sounds like the kind of warship you’d buy from AliExpress

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      Shiny with fake gold trim everywhere, and gold colored flames painted on the side.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’m picturing all those Wish website memes…

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    What a vainglorious asshole.

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    The only way he can have any class

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    Man’s scrambling to change media and public focus. Scrambling.

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    Design highlights of the new #Trump class #battleships:

    1. Very wide amidships
    2. Capable of wrecking entire countries
    3. Loudest engines ever
    4. Largely funded by Saudis
    5. Solid gold toilets
    6. Totally full of bilge water.
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      He has some kind of weird fixation on hydraulic vs. electric, too, so…have to incorporate that somehow.

      This guy is just so fuckin’ weird.

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      One tiny gun.

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    I can’t wait to see these no class vessels

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    Bit of trivia: the mid-life refit program for Canada’s Iroquois-class destroyer was called TRUMP: Tribal Refit and Update Modernisation Program.

    That program happened in the 1980s, so Mr. Trump is 40ish years late to claim the name.

  • DegenerationIP@lemmy.world
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    Tiny ego If you center everything around you. Well…

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    Tell me about this Trump class! Is it couth? Is it debonair? I must know more.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      It’s probably like his steaks, or his vodka, or his airline, or his casinos…

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