EXCERPT:
TRUMP: “Beautiful. Wow, it’s beautiful. It’s the first renderings of what we’re doing. So, I want to wish everybody a big hello and Merry Christmas and welcome to Mar-a-Lago for this exciting announcement of the new Golden Fleet. We’re calling it the Golden Fleet that we’re building for the United States Navy. As you know, we’re desperately in need of ships. Our ships are — some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete. And we’re going to go the exact opposite direction. We’re delighted to be joined by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who’s doing a fantastic job, and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. Marco Rubio is here, who gave a great few words toward the end of last week, he spoke for a couple of hours on what a good job we’re doing, which is true. As commander-in-chief, it’s my great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand new, very large, largest we’ve ever built battleships. You know, you used to build the Iowa, the Missouri, the Wisconsin, the Alabama, many others. We had big battleships. These are bigger, but they will have 100 times the — they’ll be 100 times the force, the power. And there’s never been anything like these ships.”