General Atomics, the company that builds the electromagnetic aircraft launch system for the Ford-class carriers, said Trump’s decision to revert to steam “warrants careful reconsideration”. The company told the Journal its work on the new ship is nearly 50% complete and “changing course now would introduce significant cost, schedule, and integration risks”.
Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and a former astronaut, was more blunt in his reaction to the news.
“I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships,” Kelly wrote on social media. “Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best – ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.”
“So I said, ‘What is this?’ ‘Sir, this is our digital catapult system’”, Trump went on. “It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers – I said, ‘What system are you going to be’– ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You[’re] going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good’.”
A Guardian review of Trump’s public remarks shows that he has retold that story, with variations, every year since 2017.
The President of the United States folks…just wow…smh.
Another grift on the backs of the citizens more than likely. Nay, positively. This pedophile’s whole existence is a grift to the universe. Utter trash. It’s atoms need to be vaporized as they don’t belong.
And the no-bid contract goes to:… The Carrier Steam Company, established 2026, by Donald Trump Jr.
Totally above board, of course. Although the Chairman would be Donald Trump Sr. Which would be a conflict of interest, except the Supreme Court would decide it’s not.
I went into this assuming it had something to do with the US running out of rare earth minerals needed for magnetic systems.
Nope, just a weird bugbear the gameshow host won’t let go of.
You know he’s just making it up when everyone says “sir” to him in his stories, but that’s hardly better that this is just his version of how it should have went.
We all know magnets stop working if they get wet.
This is the guy that thinks his “genetics” make him sooper smart, because he had an uncle who is even a perfesser!
S-M-R-T!
Just imagine what he could have done with a father that loved him!
I’m not a fan of Kelly, but “ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit” is a good line.
What are your qualms if you don’t mind me asking? Is it the military aspect?
That would be enough. He’s also a proud Zionist, which should be enough to exclude anyone from polite society, but that’s half the fucking population that needs their moral compass replaced.
Remember folks: this is how he makes money.
He’s not stupid. He’s using his power to pour more taxpayer dollars into private companies owned by him and his buddies. This is what theft and abuse of power looks like.
Remember, this president suggested injecting bleach to cure COVID…he should have been severely punished for encouraging ppl to kill themselves.
Did anybody end up doing it? I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’ve not seen any news stories since that shit show.
I do recall that poison centers saw an uptick in calls from people taking the animal version of ivermectin.
oh wait:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766883
some of this was people washing their food with bleach, some was people actually ingesting it after drumpfuck’s press conference
They could just show him an AI generated video of an aircraft carrier with huge steam plumes every time a jet launches. They could get away with it.
Or called the electromagnetic one : Trump’s steam catapult 2.0 really advance
Meanwhile in China where they believe in science and innovation:
https://nextgendefense.com/chinese-carrier-electromagnetic-catapult/
We can only pray for a Lisa Simpson. 🙏This is completely unrealistic; this nation would never elect Lisa Simpson.
Literally preferred a child rapist over a woman.
Twice.
Are y’all still going on about this? The (to oversimplify) racists voted for their racist candidate; the decent people didn’t get a decent candidate to vote for so they voted less. The idea that either of them being women had anything to do with it is unmitigated bullshit.
Why not make the whole carrier steam powered?
I disagree with Senator Kelly. Trump knows fuck-all about ballrooms.
It sounds like you don’t have a pee fetish.
He designs ballrooms for folks with pee fetishes
I am ashamed to admit that I do not, indeed, have a pee fetish.
It’s an acquired taste. Particularly popular among billionaires pedophiles
Weirdos.
Oh wow, not the onion.
Sure why not. Lets bring back biplanes too.
He’s desperately trying to bankrupt the country and destroy its power and capability.
He’s not trying to bankrupt the country. He’s trying to rob it blind. Bankruptcy is just a by-product. It’s how he does business.
Oh shit I might actually have to start rooting for him then.
I can’t say for certain that he’s a Russian agent, but it is concerning how many things he does coincide with what a Russian agent would do.
He’s just out to WASTE as much money as fast as he can.’
IT’S WORKING.
It’s not a waste (to him) if his wallet gets fatter
It takes like 10 years to build a super carrier so plenty of time to change the design after Trump is gone and cost Americans billions to do so.
That’s $$$$ for his family and rich friends
This timeline is so fucking stupid that I wish we could bring back the r-word to refer to this administration, those that support it, and most importantly, their god-emperor that they all worship.
FFS. This stupid dipshit keeps “ordering” stuff and people just comply. Even asshole conservatives that should know better when it comes to reality.
When our modern Caligula orders that they do battle against Neptune, will they also comply?
https://lairofmythics.com/blogs/ancient-medieval-legends/caligula-vs-neptune
Retarded is the perfect way to discribe everything about this. I don’t care that some may find it offensive on behalf of some other people. The people who voted for the criminal rapist, fraudster and pedophile are fucking retarded.
The fight against that word has always been stupid. Calling someone stupid or a moron or an idiot is literally the same as calling someone retarded, but we’re okay with all those words. “OH but saying retarded is worse”, by what metric? You’re still saying the person is mentally deficient. That they’re incapable of performing basic thought processes and tasks.
I have never once heard someone with those problems say that they felt any of those words hurt less.
