So, Trump, in his boundless narcissism, has decided that the United States Navy needs battleships again, and that these should be known as ‘Trump Class’ battleships serving as the centerpiece of his golden fleet initiative.

Of course, like with nearly every single thing that comes from this man, they are not what he promises and are vaporware, produced to stroke the ego of a vain and insecure toddler.

The proposed ships are not battleships in any conventional sense of the word. Ships are rated by their displacement—that amount of water that is displaced by the vessel as it sits there floating in the ocean. The USS New Jersey fully loaded with crew, supplies and munitions displaced 61,000 tons. A destroyer, small fast and agile ships might displace as much as 9,900 tons, this proposed ‘Trump-Class Battleship,’ if it ever came into existence, is slated to displace about 35,000 tons, about half the size of an actual battleship.

The first ship to be commissioned in this proposal would be the USS Defiant, making the truth of the matter even more clear as the first ship commissioned is the lead ship and the vessel from which the class name is derived. These vaporware vessels would be Defiant Class ships, but hey we know that Trump would just love to slap his name on it before it glides down the slipway into the water. Not that it ever will, or if by happenstance it does, it will be far beyond the current presidential term and in all likelihood this president’s life expectancy.

What these deranged fantasies expose is that Trump, a dim-witted and ignorant man, is fixated on navies that haven’t actually mattered in over a century.

The last major war where battleships dominated the seas was World War I. By the next world war, the battleships lost their throne as monarchs of the seas to the aircraft carrier. Beyond delivering massive shore bombardment, battleships serve little purpose beyond being massive and terribly expensive targets.

I do wonder if we are watching the next major evolution in naval warfare as the Russian invasion of Ukraine plays out. The Black Sea fleet has been humbled and not by new sleek warships but by cheap uncrewed drones. Is perhaps the next dominant warship not something with guns that can throw shells the size of cars 20 or more miles or floating cities filled with the latest and most expensive jet fighters and pilots, but rather small fast agile vessels that can unleash hell in the manner of hundreds if not thousands of cheap hard to detect and hard to hit drones?

Either way, the man-baby that sits in the defiled Oval Office is too stupid and too vain to see it.