It is NUTS.
If it was an important ship—that would be a different story—if she was the CSS Virginia or the CSS Arkansas or even the CSS Manassas Those were successful ironclads made by the south. Why celibate a failure? Even the CSS Tennessee would be worth saving. Pull it up quick and dirty and get on with the important work of expanding the port.
It’s only nuts if you’re not 0bama.
I’m sure that he would love to build a monument to an expensive boondoggle that was embarrassing to Americans, regardless their side on the Civil War.
Maybe he’ll insist that a nearly-closed fist with the single finger salute be erected in the atrium so that all who enter will see his disdain for our country.