Trump unveils new battleship class
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Republican administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the government in Caracas.
A Chinese naval expert also questioned whether America's diminished shipbuilding industry is up to the challenge.
The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of the “Golden Fleet” effort,
Historian’s note: “The last battleship in history to be built was the HMS Vanguard, completed in 1946; the last battleship commissioned by the U.S. was the USS Missouri, which was decommissioned in the 1990s,” Heather Cox Richardson recounted following the president’s announcement.
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President Donald Trump met with reporters on Monday in Mar-a-Lago to unveil a new battleship fleet for the U.S. Navy. He took questions after and said "Obamacare is a disaster, I call it the Unaffordable Care Act.