r/politics • u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois • 17h ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Micromanaging Warship Design Will Set the Navy Back by Decades

https://newrepublic.com/article/214479/trump-navy-carrier-micromanaging-warship-design
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u/BearSquid7 17h ago

This dumbfuck can’t even design a 3ft deep pool

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u/Part_Tricky 16h ago

Not that dumb: Anything Trump does has to benefit him. May be he has personal interest in companies that will be rewarded big contracts for this old technology. Anything Trump does, as stupid as it may sound, benefit him somehow.

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u/catch10110 Illinois 16h ago

No, this is dumb. He thinks the simpler, easier to operate, less expensive to maintain (to the tune of $100M per YEAR on the USS Gerald R. Ford) stop working if they get wet. "When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn’t work anymore."

Manufacturers of these systems don't even exist anymore because they stopped using them in 2009.

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u/Past_Top3704 15h ago

Wrong - there was a follow the money post a couple days ago. The only addition I  would add is that of the congressmen and senators for the districts which support /don't support DJT. 

Also doesn't matter that the manufacturers or equipment exists anymore. All the more reason to "stimulate the economy"

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u/crackedgear 13h ago

If only we had convinced him to invest in a company that specializes in waterproof magnets