When it proved nearly impossible to move the vessel because repairs were underway, orders came down that the name should be obscured, which was achieved by draping a tarp over the stern.
Now Trump himself was probably uninvolved in this decision-making process. But the fact that senior White House staff plus senior Pentagon staff would go through all this rigmarole attests to how they know the President has such a fragile ego that they know he would have a meltdown if he saw the ship.
Trump pretends that he's tough. But it's patently clear nearly every day he's the exact opposite. He's never had to do any physical labor in his life. A rich daddy kept his ass out of harm's way and bought him a draft deferment due to fake "bone spurs."
His staff knows he's a screeching drama queen and a whiny pussy and so they act accordingly.