Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about how “ugly” he found U.S. Navy ships, his Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in his next book. According to The Hill.
In his book “Holy oath,” Asper wrote that Trump preferred the “smooth” lines of Russian and Italian ships. The book will be released on Tuesday.
Esper had to remind the then Commander-in-Chief that the ships were not part of the beauty pageant (something Trump had experience with), but they were forced to participate strongly and effectively in the battle.
“Many times, the president has complained that U.S. Navy ships are ‘ugly -looking’, while Russian and Italian ships, for example, are ‘more beautiful, smoother, like a real ship,'” he said. niya. written to Asper.
“Maybe, but as I told the president to protect the navy,” our ships are built to fight and win, not beauty pageants; “We value the function in the module,” he said. “It didn’t satisfy him.”
Although the president’s bizarre concern is, Trump’s concern for American ships is among the Oval Office’s more philanthropic issues, Asper revealed in his book.
He also revealed that it was surprising that Trump offered to send missiles to Mexico to target drug laboratories. “No one will know we’re going to know that,” Trump said, according to Esper.
(Donald Trump Jr. tweeted last week that he couldn’t figure out what that was “What a waste” About launching missiles overseas. Told him on Twitter that it’s never good to bomb allies.)
Asper also recounts in his book how Trump asked him if he could order his senior military officials to shoot protesters arrested by police after the assassination of George Floyd. Trump released Asper in November 2020 after Esper made it public He did not advocate the military’s use of Black Lives Matter against a wave of protesters.
Source: Huffpost
