Read our Privacy noticeIt could cost more than $455 billion to build President Trump’s planned “Golden Fleet” of Trump-class battleships, according to a new government estimate, dwarfing original cost estimates. The first of the roughly 840-foot-long Trump ships would cost about $23 billion to build, with successive ships notching about $18 billion each. Initial military and outside estimates suggested the ships would cost between $9 billion and about $15 billion to build. Similarly, he initially claimed his Reflecting Pool project would cost about $1.5 million and be done in one week. Work on the pool has now cost the government about $16 million and has stretched on for months.