Trump’s Golden Fleet’s battleship unlikely to set sail |
The US Great White Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in August 1908 and virtually the entire city turned out to greet the ships. There were parades, balls and parties as we fell for the first time under America’s beguiling sense of power.
The fleet had circumnavigated the globe to trumpet the US’s arrival as a world naval power and now president Donald Trump plans to set to sea in Theodore Roosevelt’s wake.
What the planned new Trump-class warship should look like - if all goes to planCredit: AP
Trump has announced that the US will commission a new series of heavily armed “battleships” named after himself, as part of a revamped “Golden Fleet” aimed at expanding the US Navy to catch up with........