President Trump: As Commander in Chief, it's my great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two, brand new, very large, the largest we've ever built, battleships…these are the best in the world. They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far, one hundred times more powerful than any battleship[p ever built…each one of these will be the largest battleship in the history of our country.

President Trump: We envision that these two ships; we're talking about ten, but we're gonna start with two, and we're gonna quickly morph into ten, and ultimately we think it's gonna be anywhere from twenty to twenty-five of these.

President Trump: Once completed, these new, thirty to forty thousand ton plus vessels, will be the flagships of the American Naval fleet, and there has never been anything built like them…the battleships are gonna be armed just, in terms of guns and missiles at the highest level, they'll also have hypersonic weapons, many hypersonic weapons, state of the art electric rail guns, and even the high-powered lasers that you've been starting to hear about. We have lasers where you aim the laser at a target and it just wipes it out. They'll be the most sophisticated lasers in the world. They'll also carry the nuclear-armed, sea launched, cruise missiles currently under development, which will be instituted pretty quickly.

President Trump: We're also building right now, three large aircraft carriers, in addition to the ones we have. We're going to be doing from twelve to fifteen brand new submarines

Secretary Phelan: The future Trump-class battleship, the USS Defiant, will be the largest, deadliest, and most versatile, and best looking warship, anywhere on the world's oceans…this new battleship will command everything from warships to drones, and everything in-between. We're going to Make Battlegroups Great Again, and this is just one piece of the president's Golden Fleet that we're going to build with the investments the he talked about.

Reporter: You just referenced the amount of illegal drugs that are coming by sea, you just said that you're going to start that same program on land soon. Are you just referring to Venezuela, or are you referring to other-

President Trump: Anywhere. Anywhere drugs are pouring in. Anywhere. Not just Venezuela.

Reporter: What are we going to do with the oil that has been seized? The United States seized 1.9 million barrels of oil on December tenth.

President Trump: We're gonna keep it.

Reporter: Are we going to sell it? Put it in the Strategic Reserve?

President Trump: Maybe we'll sell it. Maybe we'll keep it. Maybe we'll use it in the Strategic Reserves. We're keeping it. We're keeping the ships also.

President Trump: We're gonna have tremendous workforce availability [ship building]. We're also going to have robots helping us. We're going to have a lot of robots helping us because we need it, and because we're going to town; we're building a lot. ..we're going to have robotic factories plus manpower.

President Trump: He can do whatever he wants [Maduro]. We have a massive armada formed. The biggest we've ever had. By far the biggest we've ever had in South America. He can do whatever he wants. It's alright. Whatever he wants to do. If he wants to do something; if he plays tough, it'll be the last time he's ever able to play tough.

President Trump: Their new leader is a troublemaker [Petro; Colombia], and he better watch it. They better close up those cocaine factories. They have at least three major cocaine factories. We know where they are. He better close 'em up fast.

President Trump: Venezuela did terrible things to the United States. They sent hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people, into our open border. They sent their prisoners, they sent their drug dealers, they sent their mentally insane and incompetent people, into our country. More than any other country.