General Atomics, the company that builds the electromagnetic aircraft launch system for the Ford-class carriers, said Trump’s decision to revert to steam “warrants careful reconsideration”. The company told the Journal its work on the new ship is nearly 50% complete and “changing course now would introduce significant cost, schedule, and integration risks”.
Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and a former astronaut, was more blunt in his reaction to the news.
“I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships,” Kelly wrote on social media. “Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best – ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.”
Meanwhile in China where they believe in science and innovation:
https://nextgendefense.com/chinese-carrier-electromagnetic-catapult/
Remember folks: this is how he makes money.
He’s not stupid. He’s using his power to pour more taxpayer dollars into private companies owned by him and his buddies. This is what theft and abuse of power looks like.
I’m not a fan of Kelly, but “ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit” is a good line.
What are your qualms if you don’t mind me asking? Is it the military aspect?
That would be enough. He’s also a proud Zionist, which should be enough to exclude anyone from polite society, but that’s half the fucking population that needs their moral compass replaced.
Remember, this president suggested injecting bleach to cure COVID…he should have been severely punished for encouraging ppl to kill themselves.
Did anybody end up doing it? I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’ve not seen any news stories since that shit show.
I do recall that poison centers saw an uptick in calls from people taking the animal version of ivermectin.
oh wait:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766883
some of this was people washing their food with bleach, some was people actually ingesting it after drumpfuck’s press conference
“So I said, ‘What is this?’ ‘Sir, this is our digital catapult system’”, Trump went on. “It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers – I said, ‘What system are you going to be’– ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You[’re] going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good’.”
A Guardian review of Trump’s public remarks shows that he has retold that story, with variations, every year since 2017.
The President of the United States folks…just wow…smh.
I went into this assuming it had something to do with the US running out of rare earth minerals needed for magnetic systems.
Nope, just a weird bugbear the gameshow host won’t let go of.
Another grift on the backs of the citizens more than likely. Nay, positively. This pedophile’s whole existence is a grift to the universe. Utter trash. It’s atoms need to be vaporized as they don’t belong.
And the no-bid contract goes to:… The Carrier Steam Company, established 2026, by Donald Trump Jr.
Totally above board, of course. Although the Chairman would be Donald Trump Sr. Which would be a conflict of interest, except the Supreme Court would decide it’s not.
You know he’s just making it up when everyone says “sir” to him in his stories, but that’s hardly better that this is just his version of how it should have went.
Exactly. Seems like there is a simple formula for this buffoonary. Sir…problem…incoherent nonsense…for every “problem” that he talks about.
This is the guy that thinks his “genetics” make him sooper smart, because he had an uncle who is even a perfesser!
S-M-R-T!
Just imagine what he could have done with a father that loved him!
He needs to be in a nursing home where it’s acceptable to shit your pants.
We all know magnets stop working if they get wet.
just when I think drumpfuck has said the stupidest thing ever, he outdoes himself and says something even stupider.
I used to think it was just shock and awe, but i think he legitimately is just that dangerously stupid and self important
He’s just a steampunk fanboi.
Hey, don’t lump him in with me!
Quick, someone convince him they should use steam powered trebuchets.
They’ll have to pretty soon, once the last of our munitions are wasted blowing up Iranian Schoolgirls.
The orange pedo probably watched some dumb old movie and got the idea stuck on his pudding brain, hence this stupid ass crap…
We can only pray for a Lisa Simpson. 🙏This is completely unrealistic; this nation would never elect Lisa Simpson.
Literally preferred a child rapist over a woman.
Twice.
Why not make the whole carrier steam powered?
I mean, it kinda already is when you get to the bottom of it.
Everything is steam powered when you apply that logic.
Elect idiots, get idiotic decisions. Elections matter, who you elect matters, handing executive authority to an idiot matters. The American right just gave up thinking and votes their feelings, which is how you elect conmen.
Whole lotta people feel they have to fall in love with the Democratic option or else they check out, though.
Which I just find infuriating, but people select their “leadership” by some of the stupidest monkey-level criteria, like how tall they are, or how handsome they are.
Sigh.
No disagreement here.
They could just show him an AI generated video of an aircraft carrier with huge steam plumes every time a jet launches. They could get away with it.
Have it run SteamOS. Bam it is now Steam powered.
Or called the electromagnetic one : Trump’s steam catapult 2.0 really advance
Sort of like how he is having a new battleship be designed. Battleships have been mostly obsolete since the 1950s…
These are the latest designs the Kremlin could provide.
Donvict will probably have to dismantle Smithsonian for doing “woke” things like telling about the history of another vanity naval project, the Vasa:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/
I can already see the malicious compliance gears in motion:
“Yes, sir!”
The Naval CNO creates a project, codename “Ouroboros”. With the stated goal of replacing EMALS with steam. The project is assigned to whichever Colonel is on the shit list who is tasked with the feasibility study and creating the RFI.3 years later
The whole thing is shit-canned by the next President.
We can only hope.
Stall it with bureaucracy
He’s desperately trying to bankrupt the country and destroy its power and capability.
I can’t say for certain that he’s a Russian agent, but it is concerning how many things he does coincide with what a Russian agent would do.
Oh nah, if this is anything, it’s another push to expand the military budget in ANOTHER bid to privatize the military, something he and his have been on for years.
Don’t forget your broom sticks 🧹. That is the standard way of detecting stray high power laser beams and invisible steam jets that can cut you in half!
