Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump and the battleships that will never be.

So, Trump made another major announcement about another pet project that will, of course, be named after him. And immediately, defense analysts

rolled their eyes, with some outright mocking the effort. Trump announced the construction of up to

25 new warships. And with the questions that came in, I guess that's as good a place to start as any.

Quote, Bell, why are outlets putting the word battleship in scare quotes? Even military outlets are doing it. They're making

fun of Trump. A battleship isn't just any warship. It's a specific type of warship, like a cruiser or a destroyer.

A battleship is a heavy armored ship with large caliber naval guns. The U.S. hasn't built one since

1944. Not because the Navy went woke during World War II, but because battleships are obsolete.

Currently, the U.S. has no battleships in active service, though there are still a few afloat as museums.

Trump's pet project isn't a battleship by any traditional terminology, so they're putting it in quotes.

This whole thing was foreshadowed back in September when Trump said, quote,

The concept of battleship, nice six-inch side, solid steel, not aluminum.

Aluminum that melts if it looks at a missile coming at it.

Starts melting as the missile's about two miles away.

No, those ships, they don't make them that way anymore.

He then added, and I'm not joking.

I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do.

I'm a very aesthetic person, and I don't like some of the ships you're doing aesthetically. But wait, there's more. At the same meeting, he said, quote,

I look at those ships. They came with the destroyer alongside of them, and man, nothing was going to

stop them. Some people would say,

no, that's old technology. I don't know. I don't think it's old technology when you look

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