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.”
genius says digital systems are too complicated …
Sure why not. Lets bring back biplanes too.
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.
This is exactly right. He doesn’t care about electromagnetic or steam aircraft launch systems. He cares about adding costs so he can launder money to himself.
Meanwhile in China where they believe in science and innovation:
https://nextgendefense.com/chinese-carrier-electromagnetic-catapult/
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.
“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.
like so many of the “problems” he is “trying” to fix. Truly bizarre.
Biff is trying to really hard to cement his reputation as the worst president in American history.
This guy is obsessed with attacking wind turbines and lifting up coal, with putting up tacky gold shit in the White House, with water pressure in showers and toilets, with the style of 100-year old military hardware (battleships), and with not understanding magnets.
He also seemingly thinks you cannot see stealth planes?
Yah pretty much already the worst in my mind. So many unprecedented things have happened…just wild.
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.
Also, in my head, I prefer versions where people talk to him and pointedly don’t use things like “sir” or “mr. president” to address him. Just call him by his first name, or better yet, “hey, DUMBASS…{proceeds to some question or comment}”
I would so love to see that, LOL.
Lmao right? I’m shocked that it doesn’t happen more often and also would love to see him called out for what he is. I guess they have changed up the press pool so much that its mostly pro trump gooners asking the “tough” questions now so his feelings don’t get hurt. Hey Dumbass does have a certain ring to it 😂
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.
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
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.
Are y’all still going on about this? The (to oversimplify) racists voted for their racist candidate; the decent people didn’t get a decent candidate to vote for so they voted less. The idea that either of them being women had anything to do with it is unmitigated bullshit.
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
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.
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
So remind me why a retard with no knowledge about anything, has any say about anything? Let experts be experts, and pedo retards die in their piss.
The glorious leader is the ultimate expert in all things
unfortunately, one of his brain dead sons, I forget which, actually said something to that effect, that “the president is the smartest person in the room” (regarding hiring/appointing advisors, as I recall. He basically said no one could contradict the president–about anything).
I’m sure we all remember Deborah Birx’s pained expression when he was spouting that bullshit about bleach during the pandemic. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/birx-trump-disinfectant-coronavirus-00027776
That’s actually a very telling statement: If nobody can tell you you’re wrong, that means you’re right - which means if you tell me I’m wrong and I force you to shut up, it means I become right.
The Insane Clown Posse could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.
Ironic to see ICP being mentioned today, was just talking about them from when I listened to them in the 90’s. They seem to have more common sense than the clown mentioned above.
Plus a lot more self awareness and a seemingly genuine desire to be better, if the interviews I’ve read of late are even halfway truthful.
“Younger me was a fool and a sheep, and I won’t hide from that.” In essence. Credit where it’s due.
yah I had read the same and was genuinely surprised to hear it. Based upon their music you wouldn’t think so, but people find all types of creative ways to express their emotions and feelings, etc…
Did they ever solve the mystery of magnets?
He’s desperately trying to bankrupt the country and destroy its power and capability.
Oh shit I might actually have to start rooting for him then.
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.
He’s not trying to bankrupt the country. He’s trying to rob it blind. Bankruptcy is just a by-product. It’s how he does business.
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.
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.
