Pres. Trump, Sec. of War Hegseth, and Navy Sec. Phelan Announce Golden Age of Naval Fleets – RedState
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On Monday, President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced a new series of what they called “Trump Class” battleships, a new initiative to revamp and restore the maritime industry and shore up America’s maritime dominance. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was also in the Oval Office and offered remarks.





The president was flanked by images of the first Golden Fleet battleship, “The U.S.S. Defiant.” Trump opened his remarks with his approval of this plan for the Navy to start construction on these new battleships.

…very large, the largest we’ve ever built… battleships,” Trump said. “You know, we used to build the Iowa, the Missouri, the Wisconsin, the Alabama, many others. We had big battle ships. These are bigger, but they will be 100 times the force, the power. There’s never been anything like these ships. These have been under design consideration for a long time. 

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These are the best in the world, they’ll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far, 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.

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Part of Trump’s focus on rebuilding and shoring up Naval dominance is not only national security, but economic might. Trump said, “The construction will create thousands of American jobs,” as well as incentivize corporations to revitalize the naval shipyards of decades past. Trump said it’s a “tragedy that we allowed this incredible capability to go astray.” 





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Trump also announced that the Navy will increase aircraft carriers and graduate to a different class of aircraft carrier. The plans outlined are to start with two battleships, the first being the U.S.S. Defiant, and expand this into a series of 10 battleships.

Trump congratulated Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, who understood, organized, and executed this vision. Trump applauded the fact that drug trafficking on the sea was “down 92.6 percent by sea. Soon we’ll be starting the same program on land. The land is much easier. We save 25,000 lives every time we knock out one of those boats with drugs pouring in.”

Trump then asked Secretary of War Hegseth to say a few remarks.

Hegseth began,

Mr. President you’re exactly right, there are no fishing poles, no fisherman, and no fishing boats. Just drug dealers and narcoterrorists, and with every strike, we’re saving American lives. No other president was willing to do real deterrence, that’s exactly what’s happening.

It’s an honor to be here Mr. President, Mr. Secretary, Secretary Rubio, to talk about what “Peace through strength” really looks like. You can talk about it, or you can invest in it and you can build it. And that’s exactly what President Trump is doing. 





Hegseth spoke to the success of the goals at the Department of War, to restore the warrior ethos, rebuild the military, including recruitment, and reestablish deterrence. Hegseth declared, “American strength is back on the world stage.”

And the announcement of “The Golden Fleet,” anchored by new battleships, the biggest and most lethal ever, accomplishes all three of those things and marks a generational commitment to American sea power.

Hegseth declared that this was occurring in all domains, including space.

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This new class, these new investments, will be the types of things that for decades, for centuries, the American people will look back and thank President Trump for having the vision and the willingness to invest right now, in capabilities we need today, tomorrow, and long into the future. So, Mr. President, thank you for this investment.

Secretary Phelan stepped to the podium and declared it was “A very consequential day.”

Phelan said he talked extensively with the Navy combatant commanders and shared what he learned. 





What I’ve learned is not only is the president’s idea a good one, it’s something that the Navy desperately needs and now has a formal requirement for. The future Trump-class battleship, the U.S.S. Defiant, will be the largest, deadliest, and most versatile — and best looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans. 

I want to thank the President for his vision to make this game-changing capability for the United States Navy.

The IOWA was designed to go on the attack with the biggest guns. And that’s exactly what will define the Trump-class battleships. Offensive firepower from the biggest guns of our era. This ship isn’t just to swat the arrows, it is going to reach out and kill the archers. 

Now this new battleship will command everything from warships, to drone, and everything in between. We’re going to make battle groups great again.

Logistics wins war, and that kind of shipbuilding is the spark that will ignite the industrial base and help power the commercial shipbuilding that the president has called for.

Phelan spoke to the restoration of the Navy shipyards and shipbuilding. 

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The President has been clear: We must bring back our American maritime industrial might.

The U.S.S. Defiant battleship will inspire awe and reverence for the American flag whenever it pulls into a foreign port. It will be a source of pride for every American when it brings home our brave sailors who will sail Defiant, raise their fists and say, “We are peace through strength.” And our adversaries will know that when the Trump-class U.S.S. Defiant appears on the horizon, American victory at sea is inevitable. 

Thank you, Mr. President. Now when a conflict arises you’re going to ask not one, but two questions: Where are the carriers? And where are the battleships?





Secretary of State Marco Rubio ended the speeches with these brief remarks.

This is a phenomenal presentation. Thank you, Mr. President. This is American industrial power returning. This is the ability once again to rebuild, to have industry in the United States. This is generational in the change. Not just in terms of applying American warpower and increasing our ability to protect the seas. The U.S. Navy is the single, biggest source of peace in the world of all our forces, because it gives us a global footprint. But it rebuilds American industrial capacity. The ability to make things again in our country has been critical to what the president’s agenda has been all about, and this is a tangible reminder of it. I know the country is grateful for it, and generations of Americans will be grateful for it.

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President Trump took questions, one of them being what the timetable would be. Trump said that the construction would begin immediately, and the Navy was looking at a window of two years before the U.S.S. Defiant would be built.


Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s bold leadership, we are respected on the world stage, and our enemies are being put on notice.

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