British News Agency

There was significant interest on Monday evening ahead of the event attended by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Waiting journalists did not know whether the Trump administration would speak about the escalating confrontation with Venezuela—where the U.S. Coast Guard and military are tracking commercial vessels suspected of transporting oil from Venezuela—the Russian invasion war in Ukraine, or documents obtained from investigations into the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

However, Trump chose to announce the construction of a U.S. warship in a new class called the Trump Class and showed an image of what the new warship USS Defiant will look like.

Trump said, “This will be the largest warship in our country’s history. It will be the largest warship ever built in the history of the world.”