Building "Trump Class" Naval Ships "Is a Terrible Idea"

Benjamin Giltner

Over the holidays, President Trump announced that the US Navy would begin building a new class of battleship, unsurprisingly called the “Trump class.” The United States faces a delay in shipbuilding capacities, with these ships necessary to bolster America’s grand strategy to project its power across the globe.

Yet, building these battleships—or any battleship for that matter—is a terrible idea. Plenty have already commented on the futility of building this class of ship.