USS Taft Carriers are our largest ships Taft is our largest president

William McKinley: if Trump gets to name a carrier after his apparent favorite President, maybe he'll be less inclined to revert the Denali name and/or name a carrier after himself.

Welp so much for Denali

I will avoid the obvious fat jokes about Taft and merely note that he was the colonial governor of the Philippines, which was all about naval power and control of the Pacific.

Taft. Nominally progressive but not regressive IIRC. And becoming Chief Justice is pretty cool. Taft, bracketed by more historic Presidencies, wasn't bad (was he?) Most of that list is objectively terrible! Can't say I know a thing about the Arthur presidency however.

What? No love for Grant? He and his pal Sherman reduced the Confederacy to dust.

USS CVN US Grant.

In context of the newly dubbed USS William Clinton and USS George W. Bush... www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/all-...

Pete Hegseth is going to push hard for John Tyler, because he was elected to the Confederate legislature in 1861.

William Henry Harrison. He’s the only one who didn’t do anything awful.

Really you can't beat Ol' Tippecanoe for a big boat's namesake.

* as president

Honestly, given that Fillmore authorized the Perry expedition -- which feels like the antecedent of a carrier group parking offshore somewhere -- I think he might have the best case.

Plus the duck jokes.

USS Mount Jerry

What did we name after James Buchanan? On wikipedia it says the USS Buchanan was named after some Confederate admiral (which somehow manages to be worse). He certainly does not deserve a ship.

Personally I don't think *any* public building, monument, military installation, naval vessel, etc. should be named after any living person, no matter who they are. Maybe also require them to be dead for at least 10 years, to allow for any scandalous/bad post-mortem info about them to be considered.

William Henry Harrison because (1) we don’t spend enough time outside of tenth grade talking about Tippecanoe; and (2) we could end up with a canoe on a CBG patch

Pierce and Harding weren’t particularly good presidents, but both names would sound kinda badass on a ship. I do like the idea of the USS Nixon though because you know they’ll nickname it the Tricky Dick

Garfield! The forgotten president who was a man of the people and would have been a great president if not for that assassin!

Taft: bloated, unnecessary and could have just extended the term of his predecessor. Oh wait it’s a case for…

Case for - it could be nicknamed the "Taft Raft."

Fillmore, because you could probably fit a greater number of sailors in it

Garfield; he was a good Civil War general.

And there will be a bunch of orange cat themed ship swag.

Hoover. Because his inability to manage the economy, exacerbated by Congress, allowed conditions to blossom globally that led to WWII, the result of which allowed us to craft the rules of the liberal international order and made us a superpower. (makes as much sense as naming one after W)

McKinley. He acquired Pearl Harbor for us.

So…WWII is his fault.

Yes. Also the Pearl Harbor movie.

And so, by extension, Josh Hartnett’s career.

Is there no end to your perfidy, William McKinley?

If you throw in the Philippines, yes.

When the PLA sends ships to cause problems for Taiwan, we have the opportunity for someone to say, ‘Only the USS Nixon can go to China’.

I would rather name one after Ernie King than any of the above.

We named submarines for John Calhoun and Stonewall Jackson so we’ve done a lot worse than a lot of these names

Surely it should be the Obama. Normally you'd want to wait a bit longer but with Trump about to be reinaugurated...

Just name all future carriers for John Quincy Adams and embrace ambiguity.