Trump Plots to Bring Back Battleships: I Care About Aesthetics, Modern Warships Are Ugly
Prior to this, the US "Secretary of War" Hagel had gathered senior US officers from around the world in Quantico, Virginia. On the morning of September 30 local time, US President Trump delivered a speech to hundreds of US military officials at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico.
According to media outlets such as The New Republic (TNR) and Business Insider on the same day, in his speech, Trump criticized the current US warships for looking insufficiently sturdy and proposed the idea of reactivating the US Navy's battleships (battleship).
"We are considering the 'battleship' concept. Beautiful six-inch (about 152 mm) sides made of sturdy steel, not aluminum, not that kind of aluminum that melts once hit by a missile, which starts melting when the missile is about two miles (about three kilometers) away from it," Trump said.
Trump clearly stated that these "complaints" had nothing to do with efficiency or safety issues. "I am very concerned about aesthetics. From an aesthetic perspective, I don't like some of the ships you build," the president boasted: "They say, 'Oh, it's stealthy,' but that's not stealthy. A ship that looks ugly doesn't need to be called stealthy."
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