President Donald Trump closed out a major Navy shipbuilding announcement in Maryland the way only he can, by breaking into his signature dance to the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” while midshipmen and sailors roared, laughed, and filmed him on their phones.
The scene was captured Tuesday at Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point, the old Bethlehem Steel yard outside Baltimore, where Trump addressed Naval Academy midshipmen and sailors after Anduril Industries unveiled plans for a new “software-defined” shipyard.
The Baltimore Sun reported that “Y.M.C.A.” started as Trump wrapped his remarks and left the stage. Before he did, he told the crowd, “We will build the future of America’s Navy right here in Baltimore.”
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LOL Trump hits the dance for midshipmen and sailors and they break out laughing and cheering https://t.co/IqoXt0NzWY
— Jordan Conradson🇺🇸 (@ConradsonJordan) October 6, 2026
The announcement behind the music is real money and real steel. Anduril said it will put $3.7 billion of its own capital into Arsenal-2 at Sparrows Point, a facility meant to manufacture components for Virginia-class attack submarines, including torpedo tubes.
The Navy awarded a contract worth up to $2.9 billion tied to production outcomes.
Together the package is valued at up to $6.6 billion. The company says the yard should create more than 3,100 permanent jobs and support roughly 11,000 more, with operations expected in 2030.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was also on the program. The site once built Liberty ships. It has been idle as a major yard for years.
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