Plan for 'Golden Fleet' of Trump-Class Battleships
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Plans for a new “golden fleet” of warships has been announced by President Donald Trump. This will see the creation of “Trump-Class” battleships, which are 100 times more powerful than previous American warships.
The move comes amid growing concerns that the United States has lost its systems for wartime production, and amid a new push for factories to build new military ships in the face of growing maritime threats from China.
We’ll discuss this topic, and others, in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | Plans for a new Golden Fleet of Warships has been announced by President Donald Trump, |
| 0:05.0 | and this will see the creation of Trump-class battleships, which are 100 times more powerful than previous American warships. |
| 0:13.0 | On another topic, the Trump administration has been offering a thousand dollars and a free airplane flight |
| 0:19.0 | anywhere but here for any illegal aliens wanting to self-deport, |
| 0:23.2 | and until the end of the year, they're now tripling the offer. |
| 0:26.9 | Meanwhile, it looks like President Dong from us making a comeback in the polls, |
| 0:30.6 | which is a big deal with the affordability debate. |
| 0:33.5 | We talked about these topics and a lot more today, |
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| 0:38.9 | It helps us a lot. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm the Epictime Senior Investigator reporter, Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:48.9 | All right, first of all, plans for these new warships. The Golden Fleet, Donald Trump made the announcement, and it's going to see the creation of Trump-class battleships, which have lasers to take down even hypersonic missiles, allegedly, electronic warfare systems for anti-drone technologies and a lot of other things. |
| 1:11.4 | These are going to be, as you mentioned, 100 times more powerful than previous American warships. |
| 1:17.4 | And the move also comes amid, well, the United States having lost most of its systems for wartime |
| 1:22.5 | production. And also, this is happening amid a new push for factories to come back to the United States, |
| 1:28.8 | especially for like maritime production in the face of China, and the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1:34.3 | doing a lot on that front. |
| 1:36.3 | Now this is President Donald Trump making the announcement. |
| 1:39.3 | As Commander-in-Chief, it's my great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand new, very large, largest we've ever built battleships. |
| 1:52.0 | You know, you used to build the Iowa, the Missouri, the Wisconsin, the Alabama, many others. |
| 2:00.0 | We had big battleships. |
| 2:01.8 | These are bigger, but they will have 100 times the, |
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