A Ship by Any Other Name. Trump’s Proposed Battleships. Analysis and Issues

One For the Road 1776 · Feb 1, 2026 · 7m

President Trump announced a new class of battleship, the “Trump” class. It's interesting, given this is the president who avoided the draft through a questionable medical situation, bone spurs. But this new identification with a battleship is a quintessential chickenhawk maneuver. According to Trump, each ship will be the largest battleship in the history of our country, the largest battleship in the history of the world, ever built. Not exactly, and Trump's claim is unfounded. The new ships are impressive, but so too are the old Iowa class battleships. The building of the new…