More background in the inspiring random saga of the hospital ships!

[struggle4progress]

Mercy and Comfort Sit in Alabama Shipyard

... The USNS Mercy, commissioned in 1986, departed San Diego last July for a one-year scheduled maintenance period at Alabama Shipyard under an $18.7 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 153-calendar day mid-term availability, including drydocking. The contract, awarded in June 2025, marked the Mercy’s first visit to Mobile ...

AIS data currently shows both U.S. Navy hospital ships—the USNS Mercy and her sister ship USNS Comfort—moored at the Mobile shipyard. Alabama Shipyard announced on January 23 that the arrival of USNS Comfort marked “the first time in 30 years” that the two hospital ships have been alongside one another, calling it “a historic moment” ...

In his social media post, Trump indicated he is working with Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on the Greenland deploymen ...

The Prime Minister of Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said ...

“We have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. That is a deliberate choice — and a fundamental part of our society. That is not the case in the United States, where seeing a doctor comes at a cost.

“We are always open to dialogue and cooperation — including with the United States. But please speak with us instead of making more or less random statements on social media” ...

https://gcaptain.com/trump-announces-greenland-hospital-ship-mission-as-mercy-and-comfort-sit-in-alabama-shipyard/

[ornotna]

1. So in other words

Not going to Greenland any time soon.

[struggle4progress]

2. In other words, Resident Rump says he's asking the Louisiana governor to help him get

a hospital ship from it's dry dock in Alabama to Greenland, where it's unneeded and unwanted

Instead of Greenland, Governor Landry Might Want to Send the Hospital Boat to Louisiana
Feb 22, 2026
By Dean Baker

In its latest effort at clownery, the Trump administration announced that it would send a hospital boat to Greenland to provide healthcare to the population there. The precipitating incident seems to be that a U.S. seaman aboard a nuclear submarine patrolling near Greenland, needed immediate medical attention and was brought to a hospital in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital ... I suspect many people in Governor Landry’s state would be happy to hear about him working with Trump to improve the quality of care for people in Louisiana.

[erronis]

6. Donnie says: If it's in dry dock, let's just transport it over land to Greenland. 2-3 days by truck, right?

[mopinko]

3. anyone else remember when he sent them to puerto rico after maria, but

docked them away from shore so no 1 cd get to them?

[Botany]

4. Attn Donny: "But please speak with us instead of making more or less random statements on social media"

Double Z snaps in the air with a twist.

That was a smack down by Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

[Cha]

5. TY Kick... may it sit there forever. nt

[markodochartaigh]

7. Maybe the Prime Minister of Greenland

could send a ship to Alabama laden with medical supplies and personnel, sort of like the great organization Remote Area Medical sets up pop-up clinics.

[2naSalit]

8. Can't expect...

Anything but fecal mater to emerge from the orange facial sphincter.

Pathetic.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. MaddowBlog-Trump reportedly isn't sending a hospital ship to Greenland after all

Too often, there is no meaningful connection between what the president says he’s going to do and what he actually does.

Remember a few days ago, when Trump announced he was deploying a hospital ship to Greenland? And he added a bunch of exclamation points?

He isn’t actually deploying the ship.

The larger arc: There’s no meaningful connection between what he says he’s going to do and what he actually does.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-24T18:04:47.464Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-reportedly-isnt-sending-a-hospital-ship-to-greenland-after-all

Soon after, instead of expressing gratitude, Donald Trump published a bizarre statement to his social media platform. According to the American president, he and his administration were deploying “a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there.” The Republican concluded, “It’s on the way!!!”.....

Soon after, an apparent explanation for the confusion came into focus. The Wall Street Journal reported:

The Pentagon has received no orders to deploy any U.S. Navy vessels to Greenland, according to U.S. officials, despite President Trump’s claim that a hospital ship is ‘on its way’ to the self-governing Danish territory.

The U.S. has two hospital ships, the East Coast-based USNS Comfort and the West Coast-based USNS Mercy, which are designed as floating medical-treatment facilities. Both vessels are in a shipyard in Mobile, Ala., according to maritime tracking information. The Comfort is undergoing repairs that are expected to be completed in April, while the Mercy is in the middle of a one-year maintenance period that began last July.

......The incumbent president has earned his reputation as an unusually prolific liar, but this is a specific kind of mendacity. Trump isn’t merely peddling nonsense about his perceived enemies or his record; this is a kind of dishonesty rooted in a disconnect from future events: The American president keeps telling the nation and the world about steps he’s going to take, only to decide later not to bother with them, without offering any kind of explanation for the shift.

After his major defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, for example, Trump said he’d impose global tariffs at a 15% rate. That wasn’t quite right, and when the policy was announced soon after, the actual rate was 10%.

The Republican said he was going to cap credit card interest rates, and then he didn’t. He said he was going to impose steep economic penalties on any country that does business with Iran, and then he didn’t. He even said he was going to decertify aircrafts made in Canada, and then he didn’t.

For Americans who want to know what’s likely to happen with their own government, it’s generally a good idea to pay more attention to what Trump and his team do than to what they say, because what he says has little bearing on reality.