Radio host Hugh Hewitt discusses 'realistic expectations' for President-elect Donald Trump in 2025 given the GOP's narrow majority in the House on 'Sunday Night in America.'

The greatest presidents of the last century were "navalists": Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Ronald Reagan. All three knew that the United States is a sea power, and that to cede supremacy of the seas is to cede leadership of the world.

When President-elect Trump joined me on Monday’s program, I asked him if he intended to follow the examples of TR, FDR and RR all three of whom kept a constant eye on our Navy. The exchanges:

HH: Do you intend to rebuild the Navy?
DJT: I do. We have a great gentleman, you know, as you know. Perhaps you should get him on your show.
HH: John Phelan. Yeah.
DJT: He’s fantastic. John is fantastic, very, very successful business person. Very successful. Top. And he’s in charge of it, and we’re going to do something with ships. We need ships. And we may have to go a different route than you would normally go. That’s, you know, starting to build. We haven’t, we don’t build ships anymore. We used to build a ship a day. We don’t build ships anymore. We want to get that started. And maybe we’ll use allies, also, in terms of building ships. We might have to. We need ships. China’s building, from what I’m hearing, every four days, they’re knocking out a ship. And we’re sitting back watching. And we’ve suffered tremendously. During the Biden administration, all he knew about was the Green New Deal building nonsense, giving money away, putting windmills all over the place…"

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I followed up:

HH: Up in Maine, at the Bath Iron Works during World War II, they turned out a destroyer every 17 days. Now, they do one-and-a-half a year. Can you change that? Can you bring the developer’s point of view to shipbuilding and get new docks, graving docks built, new ship lines open…
DJT:........

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