President Trump is making our Navy great again!

In a press conference alongside Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the 47th President announced a new plan to build “Trump-class battleships.”

Trump, while making the announcement, shared that the new battleships will be the biggest in American history and will be capable of firing nuclear missiles.

Here s a sneak preview of the Trump Class battleship below:

PICTURED: Concept of new “Trump Class” battleships

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Stars and Stripes provided further details on the new Trump-class fleet:

The Navy plans to bring back its heavily-armed class of warship known as battleships, and it will arm them with the most modern weaponry, including nuclear missiles, President Donald Trump announced Monday.

The president promised the new class of ship would be “100 times more powerful” than the Iowa-class battleships that fought during World War II and were last used by the Navy in the 1990s.

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Trump promised the new ships would be outfitted with an array of technology still under development, including hypersonic weapons, electric rail guns and high-powered lasers.

And they will be capable of firing nuclear-armed cruise missiles, he said. “Battleships are the largest, sturdiest and most heavily armed vessel built specifically for naval combat,” Trump said Monday from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

“Each one of these will be the largest battleship in the history of our country, the largest battleship in the history of the world ever built.” Trump said he would be involved in planning and designing the ships and announced he would meet with top weapons builders next week at Mar-a-Lago to encourage them to build new facilities and produce weapons — including ships — more expeditiously. The Navy intends to initially build two Trump-class battleships and name the first the USS Defiant, Navy Secretary John Phelan said.

Naming the ships for Trump comes after the Air Force’s decision earlier this year to label its next-generation fighter jet the F-47, shunning normal naming conventions to give its forthcoming sixth-generation fighter a nod to the 47th president. Phelan said he hoped to see the new ships commissioned in about 2½ years. Ultimately, the Navy plans to build 20 to 25 Trump-class battleships, the president said. It was not clear Monday how much the new class would cost.

Watch President Trump make the announcement below:

The future Trump Class Battleship USS DEFIANT will be the largest, deadliest, most versatile, and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans. I want to thank @POTUS for his vision to make this game-changing capability a reality for America’s Navy. pic.twitter.com/968vY5by2g

— Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan (@SECNAV) December 22, 2025

WRAL reported in times past that the Navy has had a hard time updating its vessels with similar technology that Trump is proposing:

The announcement comes just a month after the Navy scrapped its plans to build a new, small warship, citing growing delays and cost overruns, deciding instead to go with a modified version of a Coast Guard cutter that was being produced until recently. The sea service has also failed to build its other newly designed ships, like the new Ford-class aircraft carrier and Columbia-class submarines, on time and on budget.

Meanwhile, the Navy has struggled to field some of the technologies Trump says will be aboard the new ship.

The Navy spent hundreds of millions of dollars and more than 15 years trying to field a railgun aboard a ship before finally abandoning the effort in 2021.

Laser technology has seen more success in making its way onto Navy ships in recent years, but its employment is still limited. One system that is designed to blind or disable drone sensors is now aboard eight destroyers after spending eight years in development.

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