Morning Glory: Trump and the Navy 2.0

The president-elect’s ambitious goal for the fleet in his first term was thrown overboard by Team Biden, but Trump is back and he’s demanding the ships we need.

HH: Do you intend to rebuild the Navy?DJT: I do. We have a great gentleman, you know, as you know. Perhaps you should get him on your show.HH: John Phelan. Yeah.DJT: He’s fantastic. John is fantastic, very, very successful business person. Very successful. Top. And he’s in charge of it, and we’re going to do something with ships. We need ships. And we may have to go a different route than you would normally go. That’s, you know, starting to build. We haven’t, we don’t build ships anymore. We used to build a ship a day. We don’t build ships anymore. We want to get that started. And maybe we’ll use allies, also, in terms of building ships. We might have to. We need ships. China’s building, from what I’m hearing, every four days, they’re knocking out a ship. And we’re sitting back watching. And we’ve suffered tremendously. During the Biden administration, all he knew about was the Green New Deal building nonsense, giving money away, putting windmills all over the place…"