President Trump announces “Golden Fleet” of new warships
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
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President Trump announced plans yesterday afternoon for a new fleet of warships, to be known as the “Golden Fleet.” In an address from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, he said the new battleships would be “one hundred times more powerful than any battleship ever built.” Peace is often defined as the absence of conflict. However, there’s a pathway to peace that transcends our conflicts and transforms our days. If Jesus is indeed the “Prince of Peace,” why didn’t his coming at Christmas bring the absence of conflict for which we yearn today?
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| 0:00.0 | Good day and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, December the 23rd, 2025. |
| 0:09.8 | Today's daily article is written by co-founder Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins. |
| 0:17.4 | President Trump announced plans yesterday afternoon for a new fleet of warships to be known as the Golden Fleet. |
| 0:25.9 | In an address from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, he said that new battleships would be, quote, 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built. |
| 0:36.5 | Renderings behind the president displayed the new, |
| 0:39.3 | quote, Trump class, including a ship named the USS Defiant. In other news, the U.S. military says |
| 0:47.2 | it struck a vessel allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific last night, killing one person. |
| 0:53.9 | The U.S. Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a third oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, |
| 1:00.0 | part of an accelerating effort to block ships from moving the country's crude oil. |
| 1:05.5 | From a knife attack in Taiwan and a mass shooting in South Africa to possible new Iran strikes and U.S. and Chinese |
| 1:13.2 | satellites dogfighting in orbit, today's news is filled with conflict, as always. |
| 1:20.0 | Prior to the First World War, the writer Hamilton Wright maybe said of Christmas, |
| 1:25.4 | Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a |
| 1:29.1 | conspiracy of love." In quote, over the century that followed, however, not everyone has been |
| 1:35.4 | in on the conspiracy. Since his pronouncement, we have seen two world wars, conflicts in Korea |
| 1:41.4 | and Vietnam, the Cold War, the Gulf War, the War on Terror in Afghanistan |
| 1:46.5 | and Iraq, and ongoing conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. Peace is often defined as the absence of conflict. |
| 1:55.3 | However, there's a pathway to peace that transcends our conflicts and transforms our days. It is indeed a conspiracy of love |
| 2:03.8 | that begins at Christmas but is not complete until it includes every human heart, including yours. |
| 2:11.3 | When Jesus was born, the angels announced in Luke 2 verse 14, glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace among those |
| 2:19.7 | with whom he is pleased. Seven centuries earlier, the prophet had promised in Isaiah 9, verse 6, |
| 2:26.5 | unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and his name shall be called Prince of Peace. |
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