The move comes amid outcry from Democrats after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affixed Trump’s name to its sign in Washington.

Donald Trump’s name is being attached to a new class of U.S. battleships that will have nuclear capabilities.

Making the announcement at an event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Navy Secretary John Phelan referred to the warships as “Trump-class battleships" and said a forthcoming vessel dubbed the USS Defiant will be “the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.”

Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.

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    Trump-class battleships

    Slow, bloated, lacking any intelligence capability, staffed by only straight white christian men, mysteriously costs 10x what it should, has a pedophile ballroom, and is painted orange for some reason.

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    I hope all of this frantically naming shit after himself is because he was recently told he’s about to die

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    Bridge players all over the world now call the trump suit the “Lincoln” suit. Got any three’s? Go bridge!

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    Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.

    The lack of robots and sharks makes me worry he might be losing his touch entirely.

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    It’ll never get made. We have heard enough time filling the destroyer and submarine orders the navy ordered 20 years ago. Those and drones are where sea warfare is going. Battle ships are billionaire dollar targets that can be taken out my a $5 million dollar missile. As Russia about how they were forced to ancher or remove their fleets around Ukraine. All by stuff you can buy at home depot. Modern warfare made battleships obsolete around 1947.

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      They new FFX frigates are supposed to be glorified drone controllers/motherships. Makes sense. dispersed force is the future.

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        Yup. You don’t even need to damage or sink capital ships anymore. Just the threat alone keeps them out of fighting. When a guy with c4 and a dingy can knock your $20 billion dollar aircraft carrier out of the fight for even an hour, ist catastrophic.

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      Even beyond the basic drydock capacity we straight up don’t produce enough steel for this anymore. Even the US military industrial complex is a hollow shell.

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    Whoever is next is going to be busy enough in their first term just taking Trumps name off things.

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      Gustav Adolf: “All right, who’s responsible? I’ll have them beheaded for this!”
      [Sees his own signature on the blueprints]
      “Uh, um, I guess this was actually no one’s fault, when you really think about it”

      Yeah, that sounds like something Trump would do.

      Only thing is, nobody would want to raise this wreck. It’d immediately get raided by a crack team of North Korean gold thief divers.

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    If it is like all other projects of this administration, it will do a Wasa on them at launch.

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    best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans. The enemy are going to be so stunned by it’s beauty they won’t shoot at it!