OK…to be precise: there have been 11 carriers commissioned since 1977. Nine have been named for U.S. presidents.
I guess if he can’t get the Nobel prize, the next item on his wish list is to have a ship named after him. Is there any way to make sure Obama gets a ship named after him first? 
Where does it say he wants a ship named after him? Wish list?
Especially a black guy named Doris. Bad enough Nancy continually kicks his butt.
Is the Long Island Garbage Barge still available? Probably not, but it seems to me to be the ideal candidate.
ETA: Referring to CFSG, not Obama.
Plausible guess. Let’s see: Obama has a Nobel prize; Trump wants one. McCain had a ship named after him…
I found an article from 1990 that said the barge, Mobro 4000 had been repainted and put back to work. I have no idea how long barges last, or if there is any sort of registry where you could look up the name.
Personally, I’d love it if The Messiah merely publicly stated He should have an aircraft carrier named after Him.
And make sure Obama’s ship is bigger.
Next time there is a Republican majority in both houses of Congress, I suppose we’ll see a rash of Post Offices and other things named after Trump.
I’m tempted to suggest that dumpsters be named after him, but I think it’s preferable to have NOTHING named after him. Trump is so enamored of publicity that, like the infant he is, he craves even bad publicity over none at all, and he shouldn’t be given even that.
The USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70) is not named after a president.
We could call them Trumpsters[sup]TM[/sup]. 
I was going to suggest the USS Trump either haul garbage or be hauled AS garbage and then be filled with tribbles.
As an aside, at the same time in California, there was much hue and cry about a paroled rapist who had hacked off his victim’s arms and left her for dead. Astonishingly, Mary Singleton survived. Everywhere Singleton tried to settle, protests were so vociferous that authorities removed him. Ultimately he served out the rest of his parole in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin.
Many proposed Singleton be assigned to captain the Flying Dutchman barge, forever cruising the coast and never touching land again.
If Trump gets his way, there will be fewer post offices. But since they’ll be privatized–and presumably under the control of a Trump crony or of the Trump Organization itself–the ‘naming for Trump’ thing definitely remains in play:
Good Lord, I just looked him up. He spent only 8 years in prison for that grisly crime, and murdered another woman after his release. Less than ten years after Singleton was released, another guy in California got a life sentence for shoplifting a pair of white socks that cost $2.50 (under the spiffy three strikes law).
Our criminal justice system is insane.
N.B.: The paroled arm-amputating rapist was white, while the sock shoplifter was black.
Well, then there’s still hope. But Mobro 4000 is soooooo uninspiring; surely YWN Donald J Trump* has a much nicer ring to it.
*“Water barge, none propelled” — and yes, I had to look it up.
Or “Trumpy McTrumpface”
Too dignified.