Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Luis Skiavone. President Trump is announcing the Navy will be building new battleships with what he says will be 100 times more power than that of the biggest of any warship ever built in the U.S. The president made the announcement at his resort in Mar-a-Lago.

These cutting-edge vessels will be some of the most lethal surface warfare ships.

The program, he says, will begin with construction of two battleships and expand to roughly

two dozen.

The president says they will be Trump-class ships.

The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me because I'm a very aesthetic

person,

alongside our partners in American industry, and we're going to have Pete Hegseth and

Marco and a lot of very talented people involved.

It's part of a strategy the president says to create a, quote, golden fleet.

The Trump administration is recalling dozens of career ambassadors.

Officials say the president wants diplomats who will advance his agenda, and that's what

Foreign Service officers sign up to do. And PR's Michelle Kellerman reports.

The State Department wouldn't comment publicly on the list that have been floating around of the

ambassadors being pulled back to

Washington, but one official who asked not to be named described this as a, quote, standard

process in any administration. The written statement says an ambassador is a personal representative

of the president, and it is the president's right to ensure that he has individuals who

advance the America First Agenda.

Normally, about two-thirds of America's embassies overseas are led by career diplomats.

The Trump administration has nominated few career diplomats and is now pulling them back from nearly 30 embassies, many in Africa.

Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.

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