It would be good if the architect of the slogan Make America Great Again set his mind to Make the US-Flag Fleet Great Again. Donald Trump may not have noticed the scathing report into the 2015 El Faro casualty or that the safety record of the national fleet is now considered so poor as to rank alongside Iran.

He has a lot of other things on his plate, what with trade wars with China, wars of words with Iran and legal wars with his own Mueller inquiry into alleged election manipulation.