"They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," Trump claimed during the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. According to Trump, the ship, the first of which will be named the USS Defiant, will be longer and larger than the World War II-era Iowa-class battleships and will be armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers - all technologies that are in various stages of development by the Navy.
"We need to modernize how we train. I've been to 10 shipyards, and I've had one shipyard tell me how great their training was. I spent one hour with the workers who told me how bad their training was - I realized there's a big problem here. And we need to start equipping them with the tools that they need to get their job done easier."