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chairman donald trump He rarely has anything negative to say about the men and women of the U.S. military, but on Tuesday he made an exception to offer a rare criticism of America’s combat forces: They may be too “good-looking” for his tastes.
Trump was addressing the sailors aboard the USS George WashingtonThe Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier It is semi-permanently based at the US naval base in Yokosuka, JapanThat’s when he stopped his attempt to compliment the assembled service members about his extreme charm.
Speaking on the second day of a multi-day, multi-country trip through Asia that will end Thursday with a planned summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Trump said the Navy’s “ultimate strength” comes from “the men and women of the rank and file,” calling his uniformed audience “incredible.” PeopleAnd “good looking people.”
After a pause, he said that there were “a lot of good-looking people” present.
“I don’t like good-looking people,” he added, as the sailors laughed at their commander-in-chief’s bizarre comment.
“I’ve never liked good-looking people, I’ll be honest… never admitted it before,” he said.
The president’s meandering, stream-of-consciousness comments followed a dramatic arrival George Washington, It is deployed as part of the permanent US military presence in Japan, which remains there in accordance with the Joint Defense Treaty of 1960, which replaced an earlier agreement imposed as a condition of ending the occupation of Japan by US forces after World War II.
Trump, who made his entrance on one of the aircraft carrier’s giant elevators, which are used to transport planes and helicopters from the hangar to the carrier’s vast flight deck, ultimately launched into a series of complaints about the elevator and catapult systems starting with the lead ship of the U.S. carrier’s newest class, the USS… Gerald R Ford.
unlike the previous Nimitz-Class careers like the one the President was speaking on, Ford-The class uses massive electromagnets to raise and lower the elevators used for aircraft as well as being employed to move munitions from the armored hangar to the flight deck for loading onto the aircraft.
Ford-The class also uses an electromagnetic system to power the catapults used to launch aircraft from the flight deck and arrester gear that slows the aircraft upon landing on their return.
The new systems are favored by the Navy because they allow planes to be armed and launched at twice the speed than older carriers using hydraulic lift and steam-powered catapults. George Washington. The electromagnetic catapult system, known as EMALS, allows even small aircraft like drones to be launched from carriers and advanced fighters like the F-35C with much less wear and tear on the fragile airframes of expensive aircraft.
But Trump, who oversaw its introduction gerald ford During his first term he complained about the new systems, claiming that electromagnetic systems could be easily damaged by water – something few systems on Navy ships are designed to withstand.
Trump said, “You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulics that can be struck by lightning and it’s OK. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on the magnet, I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
“So, you know, the lifts come in new carriers – I think I’m going to change it, by the way – they have magnets in them. Every tractor has hydraulics, every excavator, every digging machine of any type has hydraulics. But someone decided to use magnets.”
Continuing, Trump asked the sailors assembled on the ship George Washington Before suggesting that they would order the Navy to return to steam-based catapults and hydraulic lift on future carriers, they would consider whether they preferred the old system or the new system.
Trump said, “I’m going to sign an executive order. When we build aircraft carriers, it’s steam for the catapult and hydraulic for the lift. We’ll never have a problem.”
He again referred to earlier difficulties during fordShakedown period and the Navy vowed to reverse course a second time.
“They spent $993 million trying to get the catapults to work. And they had steam, which works beautifully, and it worked for 50 years,” Trump said. “I’m going to put out an executive order. I’m not going to let them continue to do this.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Trump intended to follow through with his plan to use his executive authority to halt construction. fordclass carriers by mandating a return to older steam-based systems.
Such a move would require massive modifications to the design of the state-of-the-art supercarriers, ten of which are planned to replace the existing Nimitz-class ships that form the backbone of the US carrier fleet.
Two such ships, the future USS John F Kennedy and the future USS enterpriseCurrently under construction at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia.
Two more, building on the future USS doris miller (named after the first black recipient of the Navy Cross) and the future USS William J ClintonScheduled to commence in 2026 and 2027 respectively.
A planned start date for the sixth of ten carriers planned, the future USS George W. BushNot set yet. The ship, which will be named after the 43rd President of the United States, will eventually serve with the tenth President Nimitz-class carrier named after the 41st president, USS George HW Bush.