Trump’s $275 Billion Vanity ‘Golden Fleet’ Fantasy Implodes

Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters The staggering potential cost of Donald Trump’s proposed “golden fleet” of huge, nuclear-powered Navy battleships has been revealed. A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the president’s plans to commission a so-called “Trump class” of heavily armed battleships could cost about $275 billion. This figure is nearly double what the Navy initially estimated the fleet of warships would cost taxpayers, with the CBO also warning that the…