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Donald Trump: “We used to build a ship a day during World War II.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Makes an Announcement with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy

Published | Video Starts at 06:32

We're working with others, but we're building them here. We have great Navy yards. We'll be negotiating with some of the companies that are running those yards, taking over the yards. We used to build a ship a day during World War II. Now we don't do ships very much anymore. We do military ships, we do submarines. By the way, we're 15 to 20 years advanced in our submarines over anybody else. (06:32–06:35)

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Asserts that the U.S. built a ship a day during World War II.

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