Post #4416198

2026-08-06 11:40 UTC

Hundreds of billions of #TaxpayersMoney all being spent to feed one man’s ego A new class of #warships that #Trump says will anchor a “golden fleet” for the #US #Navy is expected to cost at least 50% more than estimated earlier, acc/to a govt report released Wednesday. The first planned “Trump-class” battleship, the USS Defiant, is likely to cost $23.4 billion, $8 billion more than the Navy initially indicated. #narcissism https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/politics/trump-namesake-warships-cost-increase.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.Mmmm.Cxqz4dTqOkmI&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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@Nonilex@masto.ai 2026-08-06 11:42

The cost of each of the 14 additional vessels is expected to jump to slightly more than $18 billion from $10.2 billion, for a total cost of $275 billion for 15 ships. The estimates were calculated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which said that the first of the battleships might take eight years or longer to build. #TaxpayersMoney #narcissism #Trump

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@the_turtle@polyglot.city 2026-08-06 11:54

@Nonilex@masto.ai and the Navy is like, "dafuq we do with 'battleships?' This ain't 1943." Except, of course, in trump's mind. Next, he'll order the Army to go back to using CJ2 Jeeps.

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@bouriquet@mastodon.social 2026-08-06 11:57

@Nonilex@masto.ai Bankrupt.

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@grumpydad@infosec.exchange 2026-08-06 12:04

@Nonilex@masto.ai I think they should name it the USS Denial instead

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@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social 2026-08-06 12:17

@Nonilex@masto.ai These idiots in power are smoking crack... Trump Ass Crack

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