Put My Name On It

I've seen the Philadelphia Shipyards which were basically bankrupt and were bought by a Korean company called Hanwha not long ago mentioned several times, but it's a little unclear to me if this is official or just people connecting the dots.

That scenario, apparently, is another in the long list of pipe dreams that surround these ships. I'm in no way qualified to comment on industrial ship building capabilities, but from what Ive read that while they do have the space, the list of issues Hanwha would face to even start to build these ships in hiring employees, refurbishing the derilict yards, then dealing with all the legal requirements for building military ships for the Navy would probably take a decade to solve. That's even before starting to actually build the superstructures.

China currently builds 54% of all ships globally, while the US builds 0.1% and every existing US military ship order is faced with chronic delays due to production limitations. And it is illegal for obvious reasons to build ships for the USN outside the US.

Trump thinks his fascination with branding and marketing makes him a genius. He doesn't care about the actual industry of building ships and none of his sycophants would dare educate him or disabuse him of his ridiculous misapprehensions.

 

Do the Trump ships come with a pre-affixed "Mission Accomplished" banner?