Key Points
Trump’s battleship plan clashes with decades of U.S. naval strategy and technology shifts
Experts described it as a “prestige project,” a “bomb magnet” and said that “this ship will never sail.”
Even if it were technically feasible, the cost of building the battleship would be prohibitive.
“This may be an era in which the president believes the U.S. last had naval supremacy.”
What he believes is that his name needs to be plastered on something of relative permeance and might, because once he keels over he’ll be remembered as a cautionary tale only.