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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump, you magnificent bastard, you thunk my battleship. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, |
| 0:07.0 | and this is going to be a strange show, ladies gentlemen, |
| 0:10.2 | because just two nights ago, I was coming home late from the studio, |
| 0:19.2 | and I was walking into 7-Eleven just to pick up a few things |
| 0:21.4 | and I was I was asking myself would it be cheaper to build an entirely new battleship |
| 0:28.3 | or to restore the old Iowa class battleships and give new propulsion systems and I was just thinking |
| 0:34.1 | this because there's a lot of use for these old war wagons, but they've been obsolete since the end of World War II. |
| 0:40.6 | The last battleship commissioned, I think was HMS Vanguard commissioned in 1946. |
| 0:44.3 | It was the last battleship ever built. |
| 0:46.3 | The American, poor American battleships, the Iowa class were commissioned, I want to say, in 1944. |
| 0:53.5 | So we haven't had battleships in low these 80 years or something. |
| 0:58.0 | And I thought, man, that'd be cool to have them back. |
| 1:01.1 | The next day, Donald Trump announces the approval of the Trump-class BBG-1. |
| 1:11.2 | BBG-1. BBG. BBG1. |
| 1:12.4 | BBG1. |
| 1:13.6 | Battleship is BB and G for guided missile. |
| 1:16.7 | It's a guided missile battleship. |
| 1:18.5 | We haven't had anything like this before. |
| 1:21.2 | I spend a lot of time with naval simulations. |
| 1:24.0 | I spend a lot of time on DCS, the F18 Hornets. |
| 1:27.8 | And so in order to appreciate just how big this is, folks, |
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