Trump Orders Navy to Tear Up Ships to Fulfill His Crazy Steam Fantasy

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Donald Trump is ordering the Navy to stop using an electromagnetic catapult system to launch fighter jets from its aircraft carriers and return to the age of steam. The White House announced Thursday that the president had signed a national security memorandum to install steam catapults on the Ge

The design change is expected to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

United States President Donald Trump has allowed the Navy to build ships overseas and ordered it to abandon a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead return to using steam catapults, the White House said on Thursday (Aug 13).Trump signed a national security memorandum directing