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A REAL American president would give our allies some warships out of our mothball fleet.

What "mothball fleet"?

When it comes to surface combatants, the US no longer maintains one. All of the Sprucans are gone, mostly sink-exed, as are the Knoxes and surplus Perrys (sold to foreign nations already). The Kidds were sold to Taiwan years ago, and of the five original (Flight 1) Ticonderogas two are gone (Valley Forge sink-exed, Vincennes scrapped) and the other three struck and in a condition that probably places them outside economical return to service.

The USN is planning on retiring seven of the later Ticonderogas in the next two years ... but at least one of them is going out in a severely degraded condition (Port Royal, which was run aground hard and never properly fixed) and I'm not sure we'd want to provide that level of capability to a nation like the Philippines that has no history of having it.