Opinion: How Trump Is Hiding an Insane $150B Scandal—Inspired by 50s TV

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/U.S. Navy The White House ballroom. The Triumphal Arch. The relined Reflecting Pool. The new 747. Together, they cost a small fraction of just one of the “Golden Fleet” of battleships that President Trump has ordered in a multibillion-dollar scandal that gets less notice than the gilded cherubs in the Oval Office. Their name: The Trump Class. The first Trump-Class battleship is expected to cost $17.5 billion, with the next two coming…