“So I said, ‘What is this?’ ‘Sir, this is our digital catapult system’”, Trump went on. “It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers – I said, ‘What system are you going to be’– ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You[’re] going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good’.”

A Guardian review of Trump’s public remarks shows that he has retold that story, with variations, every year since 2017.

The President of the United States folks…just wow…smh.

They could just show him an AI generated video of an aircraft carrier with huge steam plumes every time a jet launches. They could get away with it.

I’m not a fan of Kelly, but “ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit” is a good line.

We can only pray for a Lisa Simpson. 🙏

I can already see the malicious compliance gears in motion:

"Yes, sir!"
The Naval CNO creates a project, codename "Ouroboros". With the stated goal of replacing EMALS with steam. The project is assigned to whichever Colonel is on the shit list who is tasked with the feasibility study and creating the RFI.

3 years later

The whole thing is shit-canned by the next President.

Remember, this president suggested injecting bleach to cure COVID....he should have been severely punished for encouraging ppl to kill themselves.

Remember folks: this is how he makes money.

He's not stupid. He's using his power to pour more taxpayer dollars into private companies owned by him and his buddies. This is what theft and abuse of power looks like.

The Insane Clown Posse could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.

He’s desperately trying to bankrupt the country and destroy its power and capability.

Why not make the whole carrier steam powered?

genius says digital systems are too complicated ...

I disagree with Senator Kelly. Trump knows fuck-all about ballrooms.

This timeline is so fucking stupid that I wish we could bring back the r-word to refer to this administration, those that support it, and most importantly, their god-emperor that they all worship.

FFS. This stupid dipshit keeps "ordering" stuff and people just comply. Even asshole conservatives that should know better when it comes to reality.

When our modern Caligula orders that they do battle against Neptune, will they also comply?

https://lairofmythics.com/blogs/ancient-medieval-legends/caligula-vs-neptune

Next step of agent Krasnov: Cripple US naval capabilites it used to project military power around the world.

Elect idiots, get idiotic decisions. Elections matter, who you elect matters, handing executive authority to an idiot matters. The American right just gave up thinking and votes their feelings, which is how you elect conmen.

Sort of like how he is having a new battleship be designed. Battleships have been mostly obsolete since the 1950s...

Oh wow, not the onion.

Sure why not. Lets bring back biplanes too.

So remind me why a retard with no knowledge about anything, has any say about anything? Let experts be experts, and pedo retards die in their piss.

The orange pedo probably watched some dumb old movie and got the idea stuck on his pudding brain, hence this stupid ass crap...

I get annoyed when I forget something upstairs. This guy wants to start over a half-built aircraft carrier.

just when I think drumpfuck has said the stupidest thing ever, he outdoes himself and says something even stupider.

He's just out to WASTE as much money as fast as he can.'

IT'S WORKING.

Comrade Trump doing what he can to sabotage the American war machine.

Rather Gutsy of him to deny General Atomics like that... doesn't take a Robobrain to figure out where this is all going

ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.

Ah, so that alliteration goes well with the "Big [Beastly] Bill" that they kept going on about. That phrase: ballrooms, bankruptcy and bullshit should be how donvict is remembered, and would make a great bumper sticker.

Catch 47

Don't forget your broom sticks 🧹. That is the standard way of detecting stray high power laser beams and invisible steam jets that can cut you in half!

It takes like 10 years to build a super carrier so plenty of time to change the design after Trump is gone and cost Americans billions to do so.

Jaysus fookin Christ