Galaxy Z TriFold suffers a horrific defeat in the durability test; there’s just more to break.

 Galaxy Z TriFold suffers a horrific defeat in the durability test; there’s just more to break.

Galaxy Z TriFold suffers a horrific defeat in the durability test; there’s just more to break. Every now and then, there’s a piece of technology that lands on my desk that almost makes me feel bad about 

What’s going to happen? Almost. It’s the Samsung Galaxy Z Tri-Fold. The ultimate pinnacle of foldable phone technology of the past 7 years.

Samsung has now doubled the number of hinges to create a 10-inch tablet that folds flat and fits in your pocket, Iron Man style. I have another one of those.

That’s about it, so stay tuned. Plus, this might be the most shocking of all the new developments. It comes with a charging brick in the box.

Right off the bat, it feels kind of flimsy, which makes me nervous because I definitely don’t want it to die before it’s even three times as big. And reached the main Android menu.

Without, we are repelled by a long list of warnings like, "Do not press too hard on the screen. This phone is not dustproof. Do not remove this protective film from the main screen and the new one.

When folding, always start with the panel that does not have the camera. Start with the panel that does have the camera, I think, when we can damage the phone.

Lifting the edge with the camera, I can slowly, sadly, scientifically, start to bend to the right. Once it hits about 90 °, it starts to vibrate three times.

The sensor in it increases as the flap gets closer and closer to the center. Honestly, I think the bend is still quite soft, and all the hardware is fine.

We will not worry about any mistakes. About, like the torpedophiles pay taxes, but it seems that Samsung has put small lips on the flap first, making it easier to pull out and open.

I noticed that each part of the tri-fold is a different thickness. This guy is 6 and 1/2 inches in size. I will remove the pre-installed plastic screen, and as you know.

Plastic scratches at a level of two or three. Glass scratches at a level of five or six. And sapphires, which are some amazing things, scratch at a level of eight or nine. My wife only has 10 diamonds.

And as we would expect on a smartphone made with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, it scratches at a level deeper than level six. Both marks at 67 are definitely visible.

I’m so sorry. For the large internal flexible display, this is where things get interesting. Seven generations in, we’re still seeing scratches at a level of two.

And deep grooves at a level of three. Flexible screens are soft, and there’s no way around that. But knowing that foldable screens are soft is the first step to protecting them from damage.

As long as you don’t let hard or pointed objects like fingers, keys, or even coins come into contact with the internal display, it should last a really long time.

Samsung has tested the folding mechanism in a pristine controlled environment 200,000 times without any damage. It’s been open 100 times a day for 5 years.

Galaxy Z TriFold. But, you know, environments aren’t pristine. That inner display houses a 10-megapixel hole-punch selfie camera. It’s topped with the same scratch-resistant clear screen material,

So be careful with that. It’s also great that the entire soft screen is protected when the tri-fold is closed tightly. There’s another 10-megapixel selfie camera on the front glass display,

So the whole phone works perfectly when it’s all closed, which is good news for the latter. For the frame, Samsung is using two materials. For the most part,

Everything you can touch with your hands on the outside is super-thin Armoraluminum. And supposedly there’s some titanium inside the hinge, but we can’t touch it yet.

The side-mounted fingerprint scanner is made of plastic, and the metal volume rocker is removable, but let’s move on. I can’t believe how thin these frame rails are.

For reference, at its thinnest point, Samsung has slimmed those frame rails down to just 3.9mm, while Apple’s thinnest point on its own thinnest phone, the Air, is 5.6mm.

Samsung’s Trifold is a full millimeter and a half thicker while still having dual stereo speakers, which the iPhone Air doesn’t have room for. Amazing things can happen.

When Samsung decides to bend, and I think they should bend more often. There’s a dual SIM card tray with a gray rubber ring to help with water resistance.

The Samsung Trifold is IP48, meaning it can be submerged in water for short periods of time, but it doesn’t have much resistance to dust. The most surprising thing is

This USBC port is basically the thickness of the phone. For example, my own USBC charger is bigger than the body of the phone. Samsung is playing with a complete tolerance for reality here,

And it looks unusual, but I have a bad feeling that BinTest is going to show off the zooming back out on the rear panel with its triple camera lens housing.

Typically, Samsung uses glass here, and they still have at least three camera lenses. These are the same cameras on the ZFold 7. A 12-megapixel ultrawide on top, a 200-megapixel primary camera in the middle,

and a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto zoom camera on the bottom, you know, a color LED flash with a lot of power to recreate the ceramic glass fiber.

Scratchable. This is the same color as redactedEpstein listed. And the zigzag pattern reminds me of a zipper, which is a fun fact,

If you go ahead and check your zipper right now, I bet I can tell you the three letters that are printed on the puller. And if I'm right.

Then you'll have to tell me in the comments. That's SYKK, right? YKK makes most of the zippers on the planet. Like, that single company makes enough zippers to go around the world 80 times every year.

So, it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re probably wearing one of their zippers right now. I thought it was kind of a fact, but maybe it’s best to stop looking at it now.

Galaxy Z TriFold. The other non-screen panel is made from the same scratchable ceramic glass fiber reinforced polymer that comes in the Redacted Black colorway. Personally, I’m a huge fan of fiberglass.

Yes, it scratches, but I prefer having a scratch-back panel to a broken glass panel. So, I hope Samsung brings this panel material more to its mainstream lineup.

The front screen has a 1080p 2,600nit panel with 120 Hz 6.5 that lasted about 17 seconds in the heat of my flame before the OLED panel turned golden and didn’t recover.

I noticed here that when the Samsung Tri-Fold is folded up, there’s a very small gap in the body of the phone. Obviously, so the outer edge doesn’t rub against the soft inner screen.

Definitely not a problem or anything. I think it’s really cool how Samsung put it all together. The inner 10-inch screen is the same 120Hz OLED,

But it’s only 1,600 nits, and the pixels only lasted for about 10 seconds before going black and never recovering. OLED panels are very expensive, and the rumor is

That replacing just the middle screen will cost around $1,100, but without the repair, it will only cost $1,100. We don’t know for sure.

If you recall from earlier, Samsung says that this thing is IP48 dust and water-resistant. But as you can see here, and more importantly

As soon as dust comes into contact with the Tri-Fold, it becomes a tri-fold noise. You can see how the iron metal dust from my backyard collects on the internal magnets.

And I mean, yes, the amount of dirt I sprayed on top, but the speed at which the grinding process began, I would be very nervous to ever put the Tri-Fold down on a pristine surface.

Or put it in a pair of work pants, even if they have a YKK zipper. You can see the location of the tiny internal magnets with my magnet paper.

A lot is going on inside this thing, which we’ll probably unintentionally see more of in just a second. A little more dust splashes on the Tri-Fold’s titanium hinge.

Even more dust gets in. I think it’s very generous of Samsung to give itself a four on the dust protection rating.

I'd choose it atzero or X so as not to give people a false sense of security. Doubling the hinges doubles the risk of dust. Now that we have more sand inside our trifold than an hourglass,

It's time. And just for fun, how thin it is, I thought I'd try removing just one corner first. I've seen Graham Crackers thicker than this phone.

So if you look closely, it was worth a shot. The corner of the trifold bent under the pressure of my fingers, right next to that antenna line, and permanently bent. 3.9mm isn't much.

By the time you've milled the internals for the battery and hardware, you're left with about as much wall thickness as one can pop, and it's not all that sturdy.

I have a feeling the inside of the trifold is going to be the outside of it. With a single twist in the wrong direction, the Trifold became the first Samsung to kick the bucket during my bin test.

With a thin plastic back panel with no additional structural support and a thin antenna line that separates the aluminum frame, the phone just buckles. But at least now we can clean the inside.

Thumbs up for that. Sure, Samsung's patented Black Magic is the best of these bad boys, but the frame is so impossibly thin that it can't handle any level of abuse.

Galaxy Z TriFold: Definitely don't sit on it when it's open, which is key here. If you're going to treat the Trifold nicely,

Then this is probably the best phone on the planet. But if you're someone who's lazy and careless with their hardware, this probably isn't the phone for you.

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record  Hello and welcome to AI with the Rome Show. 20 billion. That’s the dollar amount Nvidia has just put on the table to change the future of artificial intelligence.

For the past few years, Nvidia has been the undisputed king of AI. But in December 2025, they made a move that surprised everyone. They didn’t just buy a competitor.

They bought a whole new way of thinking. Today, we’re breaking down the Grog acquisition.

Why did Nvidia pay such a big premium for a startup and why does this signal the end of the trend and the beginning of something much faster? First, let’s look at

Inside "The Deal of the Decade"

Breaking News According to CNBC’s exclusive reports, Nvidia has agreed to pay about $20 billion in cash for the assets of chip startup Gro.

Now, hold on to that detail. This isn’t a standard merger. This is a one-quote asset acquisition and licensing deal. Nvidia is buying technology and hiring key talent, including founder Jonathan Ross.

ButGrock, the entity, will technically remain an independent company operating its own cloud business. Why such a structure? We’ll get to the legal 4Dchess later.

But first, you need to understand why Nvidia, a near-monopoly company, felt the need to spend that kind of money. To understand the 

Training vs. Inference: The Hard Hat Phase

Why, we need to look at where we are in the AI ​​timeline. For the past 3 years, we’ve been in what analysts call the hard hat phase. Imagine a construction site.

We’re building these massive skyscrapers, which are AI models like GPT4 or Claude. They require heavy machinery and brute force to build.

That’s what Nvidia GPUs are famous for. But now the building is finished. We’re moving into the inference era. This is where people actually go in and use the building.

The goal is no longer brute force. It’s getting people in and out of the elevator as quickly as possible. And that’s where Nvidia started to see trouble. Here’s the problem. Nvidia’s

The "One User" Problem (The Inference Wedge)

Chips are like big buses. If you fill each seat with 100 people and drive them around in the same place, they’re incredibly efficient. But real-world AI, like when you chat with a bot,

is like a taxi service. It’s just one person asking one question at a time. That’s called batch size one. When you use a big NvidiaGPU bus to pick up just one passenger,

it’s expensive and incredibly slow. That difference is called the inference wedge. Nvidia realized that as AI moved from training to real-time chatting, their bus architecture wasn’t efficient enough for the taxi market. That brings us to

Architecture Wars: GPU vs. LPU

Technology. On the left, we have the Nvidia GPU. It uses a probabilistic approach. Think of it like a busy highway intersection. There are traffic lights and police officers, managing the cars.

Sometimes you get it in 5 seconds, sometimes it takes 10 because of the traffic. On the right, we have Gro's invention, the LPU, the language processing unit.

This is decisive. There are no traffic lights. The software plans the entire journey before the car leaves the garage. It knows exactly where every piece of data is going to be at every second. This is not traffic. This is an asynchronous train schedule.

Why Determinism is the Secret Sauce

Why does it matter? Because Grokr removed all the hardware that manages traffic. They don't have schedulers or arbiter on the chip. This allows for fork-free execution.

Every tick of the clock is used to perform a calculation, not to decide what to do. Because of this, Grokr chips have zero latency. This means that

if a task takes 5 milliseconds today, it will take exactly 5 milliseconds next year. There's no guessing. For Nvidia, achieving this was about buying certainty in an uncertain world.

Tokenomics: 300 Tokens Per Second?

Let's talk numbers. In the world of AI, speed is measured in tokens per second. Check out this chart. On a user request, a standard NVIDIA GPU can give you 30 tokens per second.

That's read speed. Grok, they can hit 300 tokens per second. That's instant. Although Grok chips require many units at once because they don't use high-capacity memory,

but they process so fast that the cost per token drops significantly for the end user. Nvidiadid not just buy speed, they bought the ability to make AI cheaper to run. You

Real-World Use Cases: Robotics & Finance

You might be thinking, “Do I really need mychatbot to type fast?” Probably not. But the future isn’t just chatbots. Think about voice agents.

If you’re talking to an AI and it takes 2 seconds to respond, the conversation feels awkward and broken. Grock makes it as quick as a real human in under 200 milliseconds.

Think about robotics. If a robot sees a wall, it can’t wait 100 milliseconds to decide to stop. It needs a guaranteed response time. This is a market Nvidia wants to own. Nvidia isn’t just buying silicon.

hawaii football: Bowl game schedule today, Previewing the college football Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24

Hawaii football: Bowl game schedule today, Previewing the college football Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24

The Hawaii football Bowl game schedule is today. Previewing the college football Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24, but you know what? The state of Hawaii is going to confirm that tonight's football game will be played, which is this one. Cal vs. Hawaii. And look at these lines,

Joe. Cal's early numbers are minus 1.5 at 3:30, with Hawaii favored. 55 and a half yesterday. It's down to 50 and a half tonight because of some strong winds.

This is one of those bowl games that I give CalHawaii special treatment. Tonight. Joe, what's your spread line? Okay,

That's great, you're right, Donnie. It's a tradition, right? And you've got to like it because it's also the only game on the board here.

Hawaii's Strategy and Key Player Absence

Tonight, but when you think of Hawaii, and you think of sports in Hawaii, you think of overs, Donnie, right?

Because usually the first thing that comes to our minds is, hey, oh, there's going to be points. Why? Well, because, well, Hawaii, that's all they do is throw the ball.

And they throw it a lot, Donnie. I think they throw it at the highest rate of any team in college football. Here's the problem. We've seen nothing but low numbers on the board here, Donnie.

This thing opened at $55 and a half, and now all of a sudden we're down to $50 and a half. That's a huge drop for a game in Hawaii. Number one, after this game is on,

You're going to get a lot of wind in Honolulu. And number two, Donnie, you also have Team Hawaii's leading receiver, the guy who caught and was responsible for 65 percent of the catches and yards gained through the passing game.

He's opting out. So, he's not playing in this game, which means that of the receivers who didn't get action this year, he's going to see action in this game.

Which is, if there's one thing Cal did well all year, it was pass defense. They're not great at running the ball, but they defended the pass very well. The problem is, Hawaii refused to run the ball.

So, if you're looking at that number and going, "Wow, that seems low." You're right. But it's low for a reason. I wouldn't expect any big high-scoring shots here tonight.

NBA Action and Handicapping Woes

tonight, by the way. Had a 13-pointlead, Joe in the fourth quarteryesterday. Went up and smoked. Welcometo the NBA. Welcome to handicapping. Let's get to another bowl game and a

Friday's Bowl Game: Central Michigan vs. Northwestern

Spread line. Joe, Friday afternoon, 1:00, when you're starting to clean up the Christmas mess there. Central Michigan will face Northwestern. Mack,

Shout out to Joe because it's their Super Bowl. Maybe a little overbuy here. Central Michigan opened as a 13 and a half point dog. Now it's down to 10 and a half,

Joe, the least outlets for Northwestern as the favorite. At least 42 and a half total in this game. Sportsball over the game. Stop. Stop it. What is that, Joe? What is your spread line? What is that,

Donnie, a conference game in September. And it should be because that's what it feels like. It feels like Northwestern is doing a tune-up against an AMAC team to start the season.

But instead, we're getting it to end this season. And the only reason I bring this game up is that it's the first of three games that are going to start.

That we have such a big Friday slate of games coming up here. So, it should be good. And by the way, it's been nothing but Central Michigan money, Donnie. 12 1/2 is about 13 points, which is what Northwestern opened with.

It's 10:30 here now. Oh, and that's low tomorrow, it's in Detroit, which should be interesting, right? So, I don't necessarily think we're going to have a lot of problems with the weather.

Oh, but that just tells you everything you need to know about these two teams. 42 and a half and double-digit favorites. Yeah, I'll just take the points in that.

Donnie, by the way, Joe, Michigan stays cool like 11 months out of the year. Central Michigan gets a bowl, and it's usually like, "Hey, we're going to the Bahamas for the Popeyes Bowl or whatever."

That's awesome. They've got to go, man. I mean, get these kids, man. I'm not going to get out of here. Let's keep it moving, Joe. Cotton

The Cotton Bowl: Miami vs. Ohio State

Bowl. By the way, I get angry about another thing: the playoff game should not be associated with any bowl game. So Miami wins this game, or Ohio State wins this game.

They're the Cotton Bowl champions and the playoff round again. Stop the madness. Your playoff victory. Take it like that. Miami is going to take on Ohio State on New Year's Eve.

Joe at 7:30 p.m. Dallas is the 9-3 favorite over Ohio State. 42 and a half total. Canes and Bucks. Can they avenge the national championship they were robbed of in 2002?

Joe, what's your spread line? Okay, let me just say this, okay? Because, unlike the original Cotton Bowl game, it's played in Jerry World. Oh, not the kind of thing we usually get

When OU plays Texas, and they're out there, oh wait for it, Cotton Bowl. But this isn't here, Donnie. We're talking about being in Jerry World here.

And it's going to be electric. But let's face it, Donnie, look at this headline, it was nine-thirty. Oh, and where are we? It's nine-thirty right now, and I can't see anything but tickets and money on Ohio State.

And I think that's right. It should be high. It stays high. They were ranked first all season until they lost the Big 10 championship. But this line isn't making it, Donnie.

Unless you're in and there's only one sportsbook here in Florida and they're under seven-thirty, Donnie. What does that tell you? You think Miami's money is hard to flow to Florida?

I can guarantee you it is. But everywhere else is 9.5. So, you've got all these tickets and all this money going to Ohio State, and this line hasn't moved

And I don't think it's going to go any other way, and that's to Miami. It's a lot of points here. Another big spread with a low total, Donnie, which is going down to 41.5 in some places.

Expect some defense between these two teams, and I agree. Okay, let's get popping here. Nail

Final Thoughts and Sign-Off

Hawaii tonight. Give people what they need at 8:00 tonight when you're struggling to get out of Dodge with the family.

The three and a half line is now a one and a half point favorite for Hawaii. But I'm looking at this tomorrow, Joe, and I'm buying what the books are giving.

55 and a half down to 51 at many outlets. I'm going down today. Nails, Hawaii, college football, beards, hats, and all. Enjoy it, Joe. So, there you go.

We're all done for Christmas break. We're going to take tomorrow off, but we'll be back live Friday morning. So, hopefully, everyone out there will open up and get the presents they want.

. Juriri, what do you think of that? Sounds like a good deal, though. I have to make sure the ice machine is working, Donnie. So, yeah, I'll have to do a little shoveling later. Joe Reindeer and Donnie on the right. We'll see you Friday morning. Take care.

New Epstein files release includes mentions of Trump. What they say

 New Epstein files release includes mentions of Trump. What they say

New Epstein files release includes mentions of Trump. What they say WILLIAM BRINGHAM: Welcome to the “News Hour.” The Justice Department has released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,

citing President Donald Trump. The new batch comes as the DOJ has been criticized for failing to release all of the documents by the deadline set by Congress and for rejecting many of them.

Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, has been going through the most recent batch, and she joins us now. Hi, Liz. What’s in this latest release? LIZ0 and more is the page:

LIZ0 and more. Last night, it was taken down, and then the Justice Department reposted it. It includes photos, surveillance video, and a lot of legal correspondence between the various prosecuting departments that prosecuted the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.

There are a few pages that have been completely redacted, with no explanation. There’s also an email that mentions 10 co-conspirators that the FBI was discussing in 2019.

These are some of the stories that people have picked up on. And there are some mentions of President Trump. William Brangham: Let’s talk about some of them. We should say that the president has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein,

but there are some disturbing references here. Liz Landers: There’s a reference in an FBI file that includes a rape allegation. This was apparently made during the height of the 2020 campaign.

There’s also a court document that tells of a 14-year-old girl who was taken to Mar-a-Lago in 1994. She said she was there with Jeffrey Epstein,

who introduced her to his boss, Donald Trump. Epstein apparently teased Trump, asking him, referring to Jane Doe: “That’s good, right?”

Trump smiled and nodded. They both laughed, and Doe felt uncomfortable, but at the time, she was too young to understand why. Here’s another internal Justice Department email

that was sent by the U.S. attorney to an unidentified person, again redacted. It was sent in January 2020, discussing Trump’s being on Epstein’s plane.

It says -- quote -- “For your information, we want to point out that the flight records we received yesterday reflect

that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet far more times than we have previously reported or known.” And it says

that he was listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996. Now, the Justice Department released a statement on social media this morning saying:

“Some of these documents contain false and sensational claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI before the 2020 election.

Reliability, they would have certainly already weaponized President Trump.” WILLIAM BRANGHAM: But we don’t know which of these documents they’re referring to. LIZ LANDERS: No, there’s no clear indication.

What the latest Epstein files release reveals, and where Trump is mentioned

What the latest Epstein files release reveals, and where Trump is mentioned WILLIAM BRANGHAM: So what is President Trump saying about all of this? LIZ LANDERS: So President Trump was asked yesterday at his club in Palm Beach about some of the releases,

and specifically some of these photos of former President Bill Clinton that we saw last week. 

What did he say? 

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A lot of people are very upset that

There are photos of other people being released that really had nothing to do with Epstein. But they're in a photo with him because he was at a party.

And you tarnish someone's reputation. So a lot of people are very upset that this is going on. LIZ LANDERS: The president has repeatedly expressed his frustration that the Epstein files story is dominating the news,

While he said it's hiding some of the accomplishments of his administration. Congress passed a law. Lawmakers are upset about it, as are some of the survivors.

What are they saying? LIZ LANDERS: To put it bluntly, the way the Justice Department has released it is not in accordance with the original intent of the law.

The Epstein Transparency Act directs the Justice Department to release all files and materials related to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Flight logs, records, and any grand jury testimony,

All of that was supposed to be released, redacted to protect the names of the victims, but that’s what happened. And anything related to the ongoing investigation, which should have been redacted.

What we’ve seen is that not everything has been released at once. Instead, we’ve seen this kind of trickery over the course of several days now. We’ve also seen names.

That has been redacted in some of these emails for no apparent reason, which appears to be a common practice among lawyers.

Some of those redactions should not have covered that. And, also, we have seen these files posted by the Department of Justice without explanation and then removed.

Trump unveils new class of warship named after himself

Trump unveils new class of warship named after himself

. The US Navy will name a new class of warships after President Donald Trump. The Trump-class ships will be the centerpiece of the president’s vision for a new Golden Fleet.

Many US ships are now named after presidents, but the honor is usually reserved for leaders who have left office. Now, Trump has claimed.

The new warships will be some of the most lethal surface combatants and the largest in the country’s history. US Navy Secretary John Fallon confirmed that the first ship in the class will be called the USS Defiant.

Two Trump-class ships will be built initially, but Trump said that number could increase significantly. We imagine that these two ships, we’re talking about 10,

But we’re going to start with two, and we’re going to quickly move to 10. And eventually, we think it’s going to start anywhere between those two, but 20 to the 20th.

And then we'll add to that very soon. I think we're going to do eight more. And then we're going to eventually go, and very soon we'll have a total of 20 to 25.

We'll make that commitment. Battleships are the biggest, strongest, and most heavily armed ships that are specifically designed for naval warfare.

While the United States has built many new warships over the years, they tend to be smaller and much smaller, and where we are and where we're going.

And they're not conducive to peace through force. Pentagon chief Pat Hacketh and Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked if the planned warships were against Washington's rival, Beijing.

Trump declined to say, instead saying that it was against everyone. It's not China. We're very good with China. Trump claimed that the ships would weigh between 30,000 and 40,000 tons.

And be armed with missiles and guns, as well as weapons that are still being developed, such as lasers and hypersonic missiles. The Trump-class ships would be significantly larger than current US destroyers and cruisers.

But the displacement proposed by the president is slightly smaller than that of the last US warships of the Ivy class, which were retired in the 1990s.

US: Trump Unveils New US Warship Class Named After Himself

US: Trump Unveils New US Warship Class Named After Himself. Again, it's 100 times more powerful than the previous Iowa class. These are the big ones you'll see on the show. Victory at Sea. I don't know if anyone has seen Victory at Sea,

But it was a classic. They're going to help maintain American military supremacy, restore the American shipbuilding industry, and instill fear in America's enemies around the world.

We want respect. We're going to get it. We already have it. We're more respected now than ever. Trump said he would get involved with the Navy on design because, he says,

"I'm a very aesthetic person." The US president has complained in the past about the appearance of US ships. Trump said the US is building three new large aircraft carriers,

adding that 15 submarines are under construction or ready to be launched. Take a look. President Trump stands with Secretary of War Pat Hexedt and others to present plans for a new class of American warships,

arguing that the United States must restore naval dominance as great-power competition intensifies. Now, the timing is curious. China now operates a larger submarine fleet than the United States,

potentially extending Beijing’s reach across the Pacific. While the U.S. Navy ranks first in overall capability, China’s undersea construction has raised alarm bells inside the Pentagon.

The speech suggests that the Trump administration wants to send a clear deterrent message not only to Beijing but also to allies who are closely watching its naval power, shipbuilding, and industrial capacity.

What will happen next is whether Congress will fund it and whether American shipyards can actually deliver as quickly as the president wants. Susan Tani's reporting from New York for Vivian World is one.