US President Donald Trump, flanked by Navy Secretary John Phelan (R), announces the US Navy’s new Golden Fleet initiative, unveiling a new class of frigates, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 22, 2025.
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EXCLUSIVE: AN $8 BILLION SITTING DUCK. In a lavish display of what critics are calling DANGEROUS DELUSION, President Trump has unveiled plans for a colossal “Trump-class” battleship—a weapon modern warfare RENDERED OBSOLETE 80 YEARS AGO. This is not strategy; it’s a multi-billion-dollar EGO PROJECT that military experts warn will become a BURNING TOMB for American sailors.
DECLARING it “100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Trump has ignored the unanimous verdict of history and naval science. The last U.S. battleship saw combat in 1991; today’s battlefields are dominated by stealth, cyber-warfare, and distributed forces. Top defense analyst Mark Cancian delivered a BLISTERING verdict: “This ship will NEVER sail.” He exposes the fatal flaw: in an era of precision missiles, a ship over two football fields long is not a weapon—it’s a BOMB MAGNET designed to attract enemy fire.
THIS IS STRATEGIC SUICIDE. The proposal spits in the face of the Navy’s own doctrine, concentrating unimaginable cost and risk into a single, vulnerable hull. Senior Fellow Bernard Loo draws a CHILLING parallel to Japan’s WWII super-battleships, the Yamato and Musashi—icons of hubris SENT TO THE BOTTOM by carrier aircraft without ever fulfilling their doomed purpose. Trump’s nostalgia for a bygone era is now OFFICIALLY A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT, threatening to bleed billions from a strained budget for a floating relic.
The so-called “Golden Fleet” is a GILDED COFFIN, a monument to vanity that adversaries are already LAUGHING at. Every dollar wasted on this steel dinosaur is a dollar stolen from genuine, 21st-century defense. This isn’t about restoring supremacy; it’s about ERASING REALITY to feed one man’s fantasy of imperial grandeur.
America is now funding the very symbol of its own strategic collapse.
Author: Kayitsi.com
