President Trump addressed US Navy sailors and Newport News shipbuilders on the USS Gerald R. Ford. The USS Gerald R. Ford is the Navy’s next generation aircraft carrier. The ship represents major improvement over the US’s current Nimitz-class carriers and the future of the US military power. Trump’s speech included a tribute to history of the US’s aircraft carriers and proposed the need for increase in defense funding. The president expressed how he wants to increase the Navy’s size to have 350 ships and 12 aircraft-carrier forces at disposal.
