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“The Navy is considering a major redesign of its new aircraft carriers to better match President Trump’s preferred aesthetic for the warships … Trump’s preference, current and former officials said, is for the new aircraft carriers to look more like those that were in service during World War II.”

wapo.stNavy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferencesThe president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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Joshfrai@joshfrai.bsky.social

Back in the day all us smart sophisticates would smile bemusedly when a kindergartner asked why the president couldn’t just do whatever they wanted, and we’d say “that’s not how things work, honey, it’s a lot more complicated than that - you’ll understand when you grow up.” And here we are.

Trump is insane, knows nothing about being a leader, much less a Commander in Chief. He lives in the past and he is on a course to bankrupt our country. He has destroyed beyond measure so much. Worse than him are the Republicans in Congress who are in his bootstrap fellowship of enabling of it.

I always liked the P-51 Mustang & the B-25 bomber & F6F Hellcats MUCH BETTER than F-35s, F-22s & F-16s. Can we please get back to P-51 Mustangs and have the pilot wear a white scarf that flaps in the wind. That‘s the look we are going for-whatever Boomers saw in 1950s movies before dodging the draft

Hitler built giant tanks that couldn't cross bridges or be repaired on the battlefield. He also left his country vulnerable to attack by insisting that the world's first jet interceptor be used as a tiny terror bomber. He is a fat old pedophile Hitler wannabe.

Why isn’t anyone stopping him? This is clearly ridiculous so why isn’t anyone around him saying no? I mean the damages it’s doing to your country’s reputation is unbelievable. He is making you all a laughing stock.

It will never happen. Pentagon bureaucracy can easily kill 2 years in meetings, planning, sketching, getting expert opinion.... Hand Trump a pretty picture he can hold up in the Oval Office. They have to know he's bonkers. This is the same guy who thought the Continental Army had an Air Force.

Really unbelievably stupid. Now we’re wasting enormous sums of taxpayer money on whims in all areas as a flex.

Might as well just move the island (tower) to the port side of the aircraft carrier and run those steam catapults by burning coal while they're at it. Stokers need to go back to being old timey stokers.

I hope the Navy bureaucracy can extend this “consideration“ until we get a new POTUS who doesn’t think he knows how to design catapults better than professional weapons designers. Trump is a delusional incompetent who thinks people have been kissing his rich ass all his life because he’s smart‼️

Relying on Trump's vast military experience and mastership of military equipment design and ship design - this would be the result Look how well he did with the Reflecting Pool

Why are we doing this. Serously why? Is our military that weak that it cannot defend itself from a mad man. He is raping them and they are just taking it. What is it about grown men, so called generals, so called military genius only to be a weak Russian general.

Shouldn't there be a 'pause' on all carrier construction since their value and vulnerability is now open to question. Powerful defensive weapons are needed. Optical beam types comparable in use cost to new drone tech?

It's absolutely wild what Republicans are letting this guy get away with. If he decided to demolish the White House and build a $100 billion copy of the Versailles in its place, they'd find some way to rationalize it and hand him the money.

Next we will change the standard rifle back to the garand m1 and if that doesn't work we will go back to the flintlock musket. Maybe putin would give trump a deal on the admiral kusnetsov.

I say we go back a few centuries to a time when ships were made of beautiful wood...that you could still plaster gold leaf all over. Imma look for a job making cannonballs. Putin will LOVE it!

How many times has he called Putin lately? What overtures is he trying to make to Xi, or Kim? Trump is a symptom of American decline, but he's also accelerating our demise. Chaotic Evil isn't neutral, that's like, the whole point.

Who in the navy is too much of a wuss to say thank you Mr President but we got this? We’ve been designing the best ships longer than you’ve been covering up the Epstein files.

Details of Trump's new aesthetic for US Aircraft Carriers were released to a public eager to live on generic dog kibble to advance this critical investment. Ed, 78, from TX said "I love the way 1930s practicality meets Baroque elegance. Worth every missed meal and who needs prescriptions anyway?"🙄

Do they think building these ships is like snapping legos together. JFC Trump will be maggot food before the design is even done.

This is as insane as trying to commission a fleet of "battleships." He's a fool - he wants movie ships from WWII, not actual warships capable of fighting current & future wars.

Excuse me, I think I hallucinated a minute while reading that — he is looking for a " preferred aesthetic" for warships? He isn't buying a suit -this is a warship. WTF!!! This is by far the stupidest thing I have read today--and I have read a lot of dumb BS since 8 am this morning.

One certainly hopes that American taxpayers and military personnel will not be subjected to a ship built according to Trump’s way of thinking. After all, everyone knows by now—from bitter experience—the kind of disasters that entails.

Shhhhhh… don’t interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake 😉 Nothing that man touches will be any use to you when he is gone. Everything will need rebuilding. But he will hasten the downfall of his own philosophy.

All they have to do is keep showing him drawings, mark-ups, etc. I mean, look at how long it's taking Boeing to get those new jets ready for the Air Force One fleet. String. Him. Along. Don't let him weaken the US Navy over ridiculous John Wayne movie aesthetics!

"Trump’s preference, current and former officials said, is for the new aircraft carriers to look more like those that were in service during World War II.” You mean full of white men?

i can tell you right now this shit is not ever going to happen, it would probably take a decade, what’s going to happen is the navy is going to slow walk it for the next two years, killing it with bureaucracy