U.S. President Donald Trump calls the vessel a new class of “battleship” graced by his own name, but China just calls the U.S. Navy’s latest concept a larger and “easier target” for its growing array of anti-ship drones and missiles.
A day after Trump’s Dec. 22 announcement at Mar-a-Lago that he had ordered the construction of a “Trump class” of possibly 20 to 25 battleships, China’s Global Times, a state media outlet, carried an interview with naval researcher Zhang Junshe stating that the type of warship envisioned by Trump would be a ripe target for China’s anti-ship weapons, including the so-called “carrier killer” DF-21D ballistic missile.
“The large size of a battleship also makes it more vulnerable and potentially an easier target, particularly when it is densely loaded with munitions,” according to Zhang, a researcher at the People’s Liberation Army Naval Military Academic Research Institute.
In the wake of the announcement, some analysts suggested the battleship proposal may ultimately be not be realistic and instead a move by Trump to jolt awake the U.S. shipbuilding industry, which lags far behind China.
It’s just a scam like everything else he does, a mechanism to move money around and funnel it to his political patrons, friends, and family. No doubt everyone involved knows that battle ships are basically obsolete among the great powers. It’ll end up being a comical piece of shit, but several people will have made a lot of money off the contracts.
That’s the thing, putting his name on everything, being supremely corrupt, does he not realize after he’s gone his name will be removed? Does he think even is successor will continue to revere his name rather than blame problems on him?
Or does he not care? Like the peace prize, even though he knows everyone around his is pretending to think he’s great he doesn’t care? It’s really a case study in late stage mental illness. Where his illness is laid bare by dementia and old age and any pretense is stripped of his actions.