---
title: "National Enquirer’s Trump Cover Mistakes Russian Warship For US ‘Destroyer’"
date: "2017-04-26"
modified: "2017-04-26"
authors:
  - name: "Adam Weinstein"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/adamweinstein/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/national-enquirer-trump-russian-warship-mistake/"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "Entertainment"
tags:
  - "donald trump"
  - "European Command"
  - "the white house"
---

# National Enquirer’s Trump Cover Mistakes Russian Warship For US ‘Destroyer’

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/19040023-1.jpg>)

The National Enquirer, that hallowed bastion of journalistic integrity that [loves Donald Trump](<https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-national-enquirer/>) so much that it once bought a story about one of his affairs [just to make sure it never saw the light of day](<https://www.wsj.com/articles/national-enquirer-shielded-donald-trump-from-playboy-models-affair-allegation-1478309380>), showered itself in glory today with a bold new pro-Trump cover story. Trump, you see, is going to wage — and win — World War III. What’s even more amazing is that, according to the Enquirer’s cover, he’s going to do it with a Russian destroyer.

### Observe:

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/image-placeholder-title-717.jpg>)

### Enhance:

None

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/image-placeholder-title-718.jpg>)

Hmm. Is that “Navy destroyer bound for NORTH KOREA” a Burke class destroyer? A Spruance? A Zumwalt, maybe?

Reader, it is not. That there is a Sovremennyy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy.

Wikimedia Commons

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/image-placeholder-title-719.jpg>)

To be more precise, the Enquirer’s photo is [a computer-enhanced rendering of a Sovremennyy, by an English ship-modeling hobbyist](<https://modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=236132>), meant to show other model-builders the Russky sub-hunter’s array of antennae and standing rigging:

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/image-placeholder-title-237.png>)

Fun fact: The Russian ship model is made by a company called *Trump*eter. So there’s *that*.

Was some photo intern trying to make a sly, subversive comment about Trump and Russia at an outlet that [outwardly beatifies the POTUS](<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/28/the-very-cozy-relationship-between-donald-trump-and-the-national-enquirer/>)? Was it just a lazy oversight? Did Enquirer bother getting the rights to that pic? Who the hell are “our 8 enemies,” anyway? And why did the Enquirer bury [online news](<https://www.nationalenquirer.com/>) of its groundbreaking Pentagon “top secret report” below headlines about Charlie Sheen, Robert Durst, and Bill Cosby?

Inquiring minds want to know!

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*Props to Twitter friend [@forbesmm](<https://twitter.com/forbesmm>) for the inspiration:*

https://twitter.com/forbesmm/status/857316139210346496