By Tom Sharpe*
On December 22, 2025, at his Mar-a-Lago resort,
President Trump unveiled plans for a new “Trump-class” battleship as the centrepiece of his “Golden Fleet” initiative. We now have renderings of the proposed USS
Defiant – a 30,000 to 40,000-ton behemoth, possibly nuclear propelled and armed with
hypersonic missiles, railguns, lasers and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. Trump declared these vessels would be “the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”
