US President Donald Trumpannounced the launch of one new class of warships large size that will bear your namesomething very unusual for a sitting president. These ships will be “the best in the world,” said the US president during a press conference from his Mar-a-Lago residence, Floridaand specified that, to begin with, two “Trump USS Defiant Class” warships would be built.
Around the lectern where the president announced the news, images of the future ship at sea and in full action. Donald Trump declared that this new class of “30,000 to 40,000 ton” ships was intended as a message “to the whole world, not just China. “We get along very well with China.” According to experts, the United States maintains a force of maritime projection significantly higher than that of China, which has proposed strengthening and modernizing its own navy. Beijing has recently commissioned its third aircraft carrier, equipped with an electromagnetic catapult system, and a fourth is rumored to be under construction.
“The greatest”
“The largest”: the Republican leader estimated that the construction of the first two new ships would take “approximately two and a half years”, and assured that this new class of ships would “quickly” have ten examples and, at the end of the project, between 20 and 25. Each of them will be the largest warship in the history of our country” and even “in the world,” said the 79 year old billionaire.
Donald Trump invoked the memory of the large american battleships that distinguished themselves during the Second World War, such as the ‘USS Missouri’, to present this project of new steel giantswhich promised they would be built in the United States. He specified that these ships would be equipped with cannons y lasersand that they could carry hypersonic and nuclear weapons.
The Republican also said that he wanted to be personally involved in the design of the new ships, “because I am a person very interested in aesthetics.” The American president, from his first term, was very interested in the issue of shipbuilding. At the end of September he criticized them again, calling them “horrible.” Before an assembly of the highest commanders of the US Army, he launched into a tirade on the subject: “I’m not a fan of some of the ships you build. “I am a person very interested in aesthetics.”
