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The 79-year-old president’s circuitous rants have prompted concerns about his cognitive health. Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images <\/p>\nPresident Donald Trump went off on a confused tangent about robots and artificial intelligence while unveiling plans for a new Navy warship class bearing his name.<\/p>\n
The 79-year-old commander-in-chief announced from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday that the Navy would build a new \u201cTrump-class\u201d battleship.<\/p>\n
Asked by a reporter how he was going to ensure enough \u201cworkforce availability\u201d for the production of the ships, Trump launched into a word salad about using \u201crobotic factories plus manpower.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,\u201d he said, shrugging. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 79-year-old president’s circuitous rants have prompted concerns about his cognitive health. Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images <\/p>\n
Flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the elderly president rambled, \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a lot of robots helping us because we need it and because we\u2019re going to town. We\u2019re building a lot between the AI and the auto plants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019re going to need robots. We\u2019re going to have robots, but that\u2019s going to help us. We\u2019re going to have tremendous workforce, and in order to operate the\u2014You\u2019re always going to need people,\u201d said Trump, whose circuitous rants have prompted concerns about his cognitive health<\/a>.<\/p>\n The U.S. shipbuilding industry consistently struggles with workforce shortages, supply chain issues, and capacity limitations. But Trump appeared to interpret the reporter\u2019s question as applying to the nation broadly. <\/p>\n In an apparent attempt to reassure Americans that robots and AI would not replace their jobs, Trump argued, \u201cYou know, you could have robots, but you\u2019re going to have to get somebody to start those robots, and you\u2019re going to have to improve the robots. But we\u2019re going to have robotic factories plus manpower.\u201d<\/p>\n He then claimed, \u201cThe beauty is we\u2019re going to have more jobs than we\u2019ve ever had.\u201d <\/p>\n While it\u2019s unclear whether Trump was referring to his shipbuilding plan or the nation more broadly, last week\u2019s jobs report showed the labor market weakening\u2014as it has throughout the year\u2014and unemployment rising to 4.6 percent<\/a>, its highest level since 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The president has gone all-in on AI, signing an executive order earlier this month that limits states\u2019 authority over the technology\u2019s regulation, despite worries about its energy use and how it could upheave the job market. <\/p>\n![\"PALM](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OISDG3HKG5GCHGDPOOZHERRYLA.jpg\")
Trump said he would play a direct role in designing the ships \u201cbecause I\u2019m a very aesthetic person.\u201d Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images <\/p>\n