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Donald Trump: “The battleship is 100 times more powerful than the great…”

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Published | Video Starts at 32:58

After I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today we have a budget of 1.5 trillion doll dollars. We're bringing back battleships. The battleship is 100 times more powerful than the great battleships you saw in World War II. Those great big gorgeous ships, the Missouri, the Iowa, the Alabama, because they thought maybe we could take them out of North Poles. They said, no, sir, these ships are 100. (32:58–33:06)

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Asserts that modern battleships are 100 times more powerful than those from World War II.

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