The USS Trump should be launched covered when it is commisioned

[ksoze]

Years from now when the Navy launches the USS Trump, it will be the second day that will live in infamy.

Some facts about the ship previewed below:

Type: Battleship
Displacement: Most ever
Length: Longest ever
Beam: Bigly
Draft: N/A - Bone spurs
Speed: Lot's of knots. More knots than my kids shoes
Range: Further than every ship ever. More than Obama's
Complement: More soldiers than any war ever
Electronic warfare & decoys: The best. Ever.
Armament: The best guns the NRA donated.
Armor: A bunch of armor. Like you have never seen.
Aircraft carried: One Trump Airlines 727.

[RKP5637]

1. Yep, or a garbage barge for tRump hauling sh**. n/t

[Submariner]

2. I'd bet my next Social Security check he has already played the system from the Pentagon

to Graham, and other kiss ass senators, to get the next aircraft carrier named for him so that he sees it commissioned and in service while his carcass is still erect. Yes...he's that slimy.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. USS Trump better be a prison ship...

[bronxiteforever]

4. Kick and recommend. Also it has a coal powered steam engine

[R. P. McMurphy]

5. It'll have a palm tree on the bridge and strawberries in the freezer. nt

[mitch96]

6. Curious which president does NOT have a ship named after him?? nt

[Celerity]

14. Presidents with no US Navy vessel named after them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._military_vessels_named_after_presidents#Presidents_with_no_US_Navy_vessel_named_after_them

William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Several non-military vessels have been named the SS President Fillmore, one was later commissioned as USS Powhatan
Franklin Pierce
See also: SS President Pierce, later USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43)
Andrew Johnson
See also: SS President Johnson, commissioned as USS Manchuria (ID-1633) from 1918-1919.
James A. Garfield
See also: SS President Garfield (1921), later commissioned as USS Refuge (AH-11) from 1944-1948
See also: SS President Garfield (1940), later commissioned as USS Thomas Jefferson (APA-30) (see above)
Chester A. Arthur
See also: SS President Arthur, later commissioned as USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290) (1918-1919)
Grover Cleveland
Several non-military vessels have been named the SS President Cleveland, one was later commissioned USS Tasker H. Bliss (AP-42) (1942, sunk 1942) and a second was intended to be commissioned as USS Admiral D. W. Taylor (AP-128) but never commissioned.
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
See also: SS President McKinley, later commissioned as USS J. Franklin Bell (APA-16)
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton (still living)
George W. Bush (still living)
Barack Obama (still living)
Donald Trump (still living and in office)

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so (not counting Clinton onward)

the only ones who have NEVER had one named after them (or one that eventually was commissioned, even with a different name) are

William Henry Harrison (was only POTUS from March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841)

John Tyler (succeeded William Henry Harrison, only served that partial term, the amazing thing is, even though he was born in the 1790, he STILL HAS LIVING GRANDCHILDREN)

Zachary Taylor (was only POTUS from March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850)

Benjamin Harrison

William Howard Taft

Warren G. Harding (horridly corrupt)

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Richard Nixon (for obvious reasons)

[Aristus]

17. If I were President, I'd have a chat with the Chief of Naval Operations to discuss a change

in the naming of aircraft carriers, currently most often named for U.S. Presidents.

I sure as hell don't ever want a carrier named for GWB or Trump. So my proposal would be to discontinue naming carriers for U.S. Presidents, and to start a program to name new carriers after the states of the Union. The way they used to for battleships. Since we don't use battleships anymore, this would be a good way to continue to commemorate the states through their use as ship names.

A couple of provisos:

1. The naming would begin with each state's entry into the Union. So the carrier U.S.S. Delaware would be first, and the U.S.S. Hawaii would be last.

2. The state names Arizona and Utah would be omitted from the list, to honor the two ships sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

[Celerity]

18. I could live with this

[Blue Owl]

7. The SS Bloaty McBloatface

n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Needs to run on steam. nt

[NutmegYankee]

10. Coal fired boilers will be a requirement.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. That's a good idea. All those out of work coal

Miners could shovel the coal.

When I was little we had a coal furnace . We had a coal bin in the basement. My dad had to go down twice a day to shovel the coal in. What I remember was how dirty it was. It just got onto everything.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Steam, aka hot air.

Trump knows what he is talking about.

[moondust]

9. Like the USS Richard M. Nixon.

[ooky]

12. Should be called the USS Spanky Dennison.

[uponit7771]

13. Do impeached presidents get ships named after them? tia

[Ms. Toad]

15. Better yet, no USS Trump. n/t

[ProudLib72]

16. Just put him on the SS Minow

Skipper: The Rump
Gilligan: Kushner
Thurston Howell: Robert Mercer
Lovey: Rebekah Mercer
Ginger: Melanie
Mary Ann: Hope
The Professor: Ain't nobody in the Rump administration who comes close.

[UTUSN]

20. Just the idea of "USS Trump" is a stabbing in the heart to me.

[BootinUp]

21. Russian "Comrade Trump" is the only ship to have

The honor.