I caught the orange man talking on the radio, as I am not american I knew it was going to be something stupid but this? I thought it was a joke, an onion like thing, but nooooo. What sealed it is when in the very speech about the new 100x battleships, trump stated that he did not know why the us stopped using battleships....
Aircraft carriers are very expensive to run, about the same as a battleship actually. And the Iowas did have a modernization done that added:
And even then, they where still seen as a colossal waste of money, even vs an aircraft carrier (that can do more and is real "force projection") that was seen as more vulnerable then an aircraft carrier. That was in the 1991 and now? 34 years later? They would be the biggest waste of soon to be sunk money in modern warfare.