... instead a move by Trump to jolt awake the U.S. shipbuilding industry, which lags far behind China.
I think they're giving shit-for-brains way too much credit here.
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More sanewashing from the complicit media
Or some low level christo-fascist management dude at the heritage foundation, that knows nothing about anything had an idea. And now Americans will pay their lives and waste of taxes.
This always happens.
Trump: I'm gonna poop in the rose garden!
Sycophants: Of course the president isn't going to poop in the rose garden, the woke media is crazy.
Trump (while pooping in the rise garden): I'm pooping in the rose garden!
Sycophants: The rose garden is where terrorists come from.
He's definitely shat in the Rose Garden. Some probably leaked down his leg and touched the ground there.
The US navy is way bigger than China's, so I would question that the US shipbuilding industry lags China. I would also recognize that contractors wanting more money spent pump articles warning us about China and saying China is outpacing us.
Like in the cold war, the ussr was constantly overhyped in capability to justify more spending.
I know China is quick building ships. I do however doubt they are anywhere near the US, no matter how many ships they are working on right now or what. I also highly doubt the US should increase yet again our navies size.
Everyone has called them that for decades, half a century or more. Big battleships are a thing of the past, ww2 their last hurrah. They are too vulnerable and with the weapons out there, it's better to have more smaller ships than a single big one that could be taken out with one missile or torpedo or mine breaking through.
This is like Hitler getting personally involved in weapons decisions in the war. At one point he took machine guns off the top of tanks for whatever reason he got into his head, determined he was the smartest person in the world. Turned out making them even more of sitting ducks to infantry on the eastern front.
Likewise our leader is surrounded by yes men. No one will tell him he's wrong, and if they did they would be removed from their positions. So you get outdated super battleships rather than the frigates we have been making.
Motherfucker doesn't understand you get things named after you by people who respect you after you're gone, not by your own decision. Classless moron.
US: The Trump Centre for Destroying American Hegemony. :applause:
China: :popcorn:
Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
He knows. He just craves the attention.
It’s just a scam like everything else he does, a mechanism to move money around and funnel it to his political patrons, friends, and family. No doubt everyone involved knows that battle ships are basically obsolete among the great powers. It’ll end up being a comical piece of shit, but several people will have made a lot of money off the contracts.
That's the thing, putting his name on everything, being supremely corrupt, does he not realize after he's gone his name will be removed? Does he think even is successor will continue to revere his name rather than blame problems on him?
Or does he not care? Like the peace prize, even though he knows everyone around his is pretending to think he's great he doesn't care? It's really a case study in late stage mental illness. Where his illness is laid bare by dementia and old age and any pretense is stripped of his actions.
It's called the Trump class because it's full of Bubba's sea-men
A fart class boat. Probably be fat and ugly and barely able to actually DO anything...
Good point, but look at the catapults it’ll have for launching fighters. Proper traditional steam catapults with analogue warmth, none of that modern digital rubbish.
And they'll paint camouflage all over them, for "stealth".
Put Trump on it and use it as a decoy.
Who would have thought …
Ho wait everyone
I'm surprised they didn't just stay quiet in public (and laugh their asses off in private). China usually seems to keep their cards fairly close to their chest...
"China calls..." and it's some dude.
Imagine if newspapers used this convention for random American civilian citizens in headlines too.
some dude
It’s not like he’s a random civilian, he literally works for the PLA.
So do millions of others.