Knows More Than The Admirals, Too!

Any regular readers may have noted a certain interest in the activities of the U.S. Navy in this space; this Trumpian buffoonery, therefore, piqued our interest.

Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:

Trump Wants ‘Goddamned Steam,’ Not Digital Catapults on Aircraft Carriers  —  Navy officials were “blindsided” on Thursday, a spokesman told me, by President Donald Trump's suggestion that he has convinced the Navy to abandon a long-planned digital launching system in favor of steam on its newest aircraft carrier.

Discussion:

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:   President Trump Wants Steam, Dammit, Not This Newfangled Digital Stuff

Paul Szoldra / Business Insider:   ‘You going to goddamned steam’: Trump rails against the Navy's new catapult system

RELATED:

 Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
‘You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.’ Trump targets the Navy's new aircraft catapult

Discussion:

Brian Feldman / New York Magazine:   Trump, Who Understands ‘the Cyber,’ Signs Executive Order on Cybersecurity

Dave Majumdar / The National Interest:   Trump: All Future U.S. Navy Carriers Will Use “Goddamned Steam” Catapults

Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo:   President Donald Trump: ‘What Is Digital?’

J. Bradford DeLong / bradford-delong.com:   In Which I Call for the Immediate Impeachment and Removal of Mike Pence from His Office …

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Admiral of The Ocean Sea Trump thinks/says it's "digital" but it's electro-magnetic. Man he's good w/ the cyber, just like Barron. And who the hell asked him, anyway? Is incompetent micro-management of Our Fighting Forces part of his deal w/ Putin?