Ballrooms on Water? Some Potential Design Issues with Trump Class Battleships

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

High above the Arctic Circle but warmed by the Gulfstream, the port of Tromsø is gateway to northern Norway. It is also final resting place of the German battleship Tirpitz. She was sunk by a formation of British Lancaster bombers on November 12, 1944. Air attacks have doomed other great warships — the Yamato, Bismarck, Prince of Wales —to Davey Jones’ Locker. Memo to Trump: Battle wagons have become an extinct naval species.

Only they are now being recycled by our 47th president. As millions of his countrymen stand to lose medical coverage, POTUS wants to build us two “Trump Class” battleships.

Along with Greenland, the ships are deemed needed for national defense, another sign that George III was not the first mad king to rule over America. Sixteen-inch guns can give off a thunderous salute, to match an aerial flyover. Our POTUS specializes in strategic bling.

The Secretary of War, in letting shipbuilding contracts for the Trump’s warships, should flag certain design features. The Brits laid out a class of fast, powerful warships early in the 20th century, fast and lethal. But they had a flaw — insufficient armor on the ships’ upper decks.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/12/31/ballrooms-on-water-some-potential-design-issues-with-trump-class-battleships/

[wcmagumba]

1. We might as well stack pallets of bundled cash on huge barges and assign one guy with a Red Ryder BB gun to each...

Good plan Spanky...

[patphil]

2. Besides being extremely vulnerable, they're slow and take too much time to move into position.

No amount of armor can protect these floating boat anchors from destruction. They amount to multi-billion dollar monuments to a madman's ego.
In fact, they'll never be commissioned as they're obsolete before they're built.
This is just another massive waste of money and resources springing forth from what's left of the mind of our nearly brain dead president.
I would say this is all being done to enrich the shipbuilding companies.