Today is 08/15/2026

by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/15/2026 11:14 PM

Everyone knows Donald J. Trump is and always has been a Blustering Fool.

A complete failure in business and a lottery-winner of the war-profiteer loot of his scumbag daddy Fred Trump. Fred sent little Donny to sissy-boy reform school and that only made him a worse crybaby.

What a freaking idiot.



What concerns me is that he is obviously being manipulated.

Maybe the USA does need a War Department.

People like Donald J. Trump are not the people of the USA that fight wars.

No, I think someone lurking the shadows is trying to tell us something important.









Devotion (2022)

(from internet transcript)

Fellas,
you all passed
your carrier quals.
[all cheer]
[pilot] That's what
I'm talking about.
Top marks go to...
Yeah.
Lieutenant Hudner
with the only
perfect grade.
Oh, bastard.
Which brings us
to Ensign Brown.
D-N-K-U-A!
[all]
Damn near killed us all.










https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/navy-weighs-major-warship-redesign-to-match-trumps-preferences-144216457.html

Yahoo! News

The Washington Post News

Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump's preferences

Updated Sat, August 15, 2026 at 7:42 AM PDT 6 min read

The U.S. Navy is considering a major redesign of its new aircraft carriers to better match President Donald Trump's preferred aesthetic for the warships, according to seven current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The service is evaluating the feasibility of moving the multistory tower that acts as the carrier's command center farther forward, toward the middle of the ship, to resemble older vessels, the officials said. The review, which has not been previously reported, is in response to Trump's concerns about the "look" of the new Ford-class ships, where the tower is near the rear, these people said.

The timing and extent of the Navy's evaluation is unclear, with current and former officials cautioning that the service was concerned that such a change would require significant time and money. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation.

Moving that command center, known as the "island," would be the second major design change prompted by the president, who on Thursday issued a national security memorandum directing the Navy to develop a plan to revert to older steam-powered catapults on future carriers. The systems help launch jets off the ships' flight decks.

Trump's preference, current and former officials said, is for the new aircraft carriers to look more like those that were in service during World War II.

The Navy also examined the issue during his first term as president, said a former senior U.S. official. A study found that moving the island could cost billions of dollars in redesign costs and significantly delay the program, this person said.

"It came back that the cost and time to do so would just be extraordinary," the former official said.

There are three Ford-class carriers in various stages of development. The USS John F. Kennedy is undergoing sea trials and getting closer to joining the fleet while the USS Enterprise and USS Doris Miller are under construction. The first carrier in the class, USS Gerald R. Ford, is already in service and recently finished a lengthy combat tour in the Middle East.

Plans call for building up to 10 Ford-class carriers over the next four decades, at a projected future cost of $22 billion each, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Navy's most recent shipbuilding plan.

Relocating the island would be "a major redesign," said Bryan Clark, a former Navy officer who studies the service at the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning think tank in Washington. Such an alteration to the carrier's layout, he said, would affect the ship's buoyancy and weight and come at a significant cost.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:15 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 08/15/2026