[dfwgator]

Pres. Donald Trump used the Navy’s next-generation aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, as a backdrop to unveil his vision for the next defense budget in March 2017.

So it was built on Obama's watch, but he blames Trump.

[Snickering Hound]

The problems with the ship’s systems, including the catapult, are well-known. But Trump still caught virtually every Pentagon watcher off guard when, in the middle of a wide-ranging Time interview, he said he had directed the Navy to abandon the new “digital” aircraft catapult on future Ford-class carriers. Instead he wants the Navy to revert to the proven steam catapults, which have been in use for decades.

No, it's not Trump bashing...

[canalabamian]

War Is Boring, War On the Rocks, and several other defense industry blogs are consistently showing their biases. Don’t think for one second that Trump has any allies in the DC “think tank” and Defense Industry cesspools. Trump will disrupt their feed troughs (income tax “revenue”). Nothing but a lot of pseudo intellectual masterbation. Not coincidentally, there wasn’t similar complaining during the last precedent’s term.