Tim Miller

He said, when these ships pull into foreign ports, they will inspire awe and reverence.

And I'm like, okay.

And Trump even mentioned at one point, well, you know, it's like the great white fleet.

Now, you probably don't want to go there, Mr. President.

So that's what he's talking about.

But what the Navy, if you talk to people in the Navy, they will tell you what they need is reducing the tempo of operations, because the real problem for our folks in the Pacific is they're exhausted.

Having the best ships in the world aren't going to matter if you're having accidents or if you're underperforming in combat because your people are inexperienced, exhausted, poorly trained.

The ships haven't been maintained.

I would rather have the top fit alert officers and sailors on current ships than a bunch of exhausted people trying to –

get around on you know something that's big and slow and an easy target um for the enemy the other thing about this is we don't have the shipbuilding capacity for this he's like we're gonna go build these ships he says first one's gonna arrive in two and a half years okay first of all the first of anything does not arrive into it i said as i said in the piece i i put out last night uh yeah i suppose if they slap gold paint on something and call it the uss trump it can arrive in time but

but there's no infrastructure there isn't enough infrastructure for this he's talking about two and then 10 and then 25 ships that the last time the navy tried to do this it was with something called the zoom wall class destroyer and the whole thing turned into such a hot mess um that they made three of them instead of i think they were going to do like 30 or something

It doesn't work.

I mean, they're going to these things never really saw action.

They don't go anywhere.

They were put into commission.

There were three of them.

They're going to be decommissioned.

You know, you can't just snap your fingers and say, create a super ship, you know, that glitters and sparkles and inspires awe.

And finally, and then I'll get off my soapbox.

Even Putin doesn't name classes of ships after himself.