Speaking from Palm Beach, President Donald Trump said 20 to 25 battleships will be built and become 'the flagships of the American naval fleet.'

The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of the “Golden Fleet” effort,

Historian’s note: “The last battleship in history to be built was the HMS Vanguard, completed in 1946; the last battleship commissioned by the U.S. was the USS Missouri, which was decommissioned in the 1990s,” Heather Cox Richardson recounted following the president’s announcement.

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