Trump, 79, Claims Nobody Knows What a Magnet Is

Please stop writing headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that don’t end with. Well. You know.

Those headlines you're thinking of don't start "Trump, 79". They start, "President Donald John Trump, 79."
- Unf, stop. It makes me feel things as I read that out in my head, then let down and blocked like the cat just jumped on the bed and threw up right near the end.
- Gonna be alotta dem politicians mourning the loss and saying nice things about dude.
They started doing it this year to clickbait people into thinking he died
why they play with my feelings like that 😭
... they should instead all end with ", thank you for your attention to this matter."

Juggalo president confirmed?

Insane Clown President
"gUys He's obViouSly reFeReNcing tHe iCp mEme, because we all know this dude is deep into Internet country¡"-someone's serious take on this when they're confronted with it.
I'd rather have violent j & shaggy 2 dope in the white house tbh
- Without hesitation.
He'd be hated amongst the jugs. They don't play to that fiddle.
- Violent Jay loves his mom
Muthafuckin miracles
Just being real for a second, I think those guys are decent folks and anti right wing lunacy.

What everyone glosses over and completely never see.

Is that this idiot represents the entire country.

If you have an idiot for a leader.

Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

Logic says, your country is full of idiots.
Yeah, we went through this already, George Bush the Second made you guys look very stupid
- Little did I know that the extreme low of W was actually a relatively high point.
- It was less obvious because the world was less connected and not everyone had a high quality video camera in their pocket.
  The media could also be relied upon to edit in a favourable manner. That's still the case today, but he can't get away from the fact that every time he shows up, people film him, because he's always going to say something stupid. The idea that he might manage to have a normal day and not say something insanely dumb, is just inconceivable.
tbf, he really is the perfect representation of a large subsection of the US population, rich, middle/working class, poor....
he's dumb as shit and acquired everything because of his name (wasting most of that fortune/legacy to boot).
- The pale skinned subsection.
Exactly right....
You know those old cartoons that were totally not politically correct showing a bad stereotype of a Mexican, with a sombrero and a poncho, sleeping off a tequila bender under the shade of a cactus?
Well, the orange pedophile is EXACTLY the American version of that: confidently ignorant, morbidly obese, with undeserved resources, zero education, zero manners, zero culture.
We all know those stereotypes are supposed to be rude jokes barely based on any reality... I mean, there are cacti in Mexico and I am sure more than one Mexican has had a Tequila bender, but there is never the expectation you'll go to Mexico and actually see that.
And now, Muricans proved theirs not only exists, it is what they look up to apparently.
That is like France choosing this guy as their next President
The country was founded by literal enslavers. It's always been dumb AF.
I agree. The middle of the bell curve is woefully inadequate. Those dingalings.
- I suppose if we've got Einstein and Hawking we must have people like Trump to balance it out.

I'll tell you how magnets work.

"Fire, Water, Earth and Dirt
Fucking Magnets, how do they work"

"And I don't wanna talk to a scientist. Motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed."

Next thing you know, we have the first Juggalo president.

i think having a juggalo president would be a step up from what we have now.
- "Divert all subsidies from corn to Faygo."
  "Yes sir, whoop whoop."
- I would trust an impoverished juggalo with the concept of family over the current situation.
You fucking wish
Ah, a homestuck fan perhaps?

I mean, in the same way that no one knows for certain what matter really is.

But that really doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files, provide healthcare for the US, and stop imprisoning my friends and neighbors

We (meaning you, because I'm not american) will accept one of the two latter too.

Ignorant and racist.

I don't think I've ever seen a group of voters vote in someone so much like themselves.

You forgot the pedophile part. It's now pretty much confirmed.
- Confirmed...Did I miss an update?

wait til he finds out about torrent magnet links

From the article

The “polarizing” president was in conversation with Fox News about the economy when he veered off track…

Dad reporter confirmed. He even snuck in an “off track” before talking about trains.

What is this guys obsession with magnets?
"Magnets don't work when wet" "Nobody knows what magnets are"
Does this obsession stem from the fact that he repels every decent person?

Funny that people pick this specific statement out of a long and aimless rambling. This specific statement isnt even that wrong depending on its interpretation. Isnt it more important to note that he confidently rambles like a senile lunatic?

Feynman moment.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.
- came here to post this hahaha. I still use "X does this, Y does that -- You can't explain that." sometimes. Just something about the hubris of ending it with pointing at the person and saying you can't explain that, I love it just as much today: https://youtu.be/NUeybwTMeWo?t=11
- Tide goes in, wash cycle begins, wash cycle ends, dirty water drains out.
- Yes I can. Tide goes in because tide goes out.
Holy shit something just clicked for me!
"Ice is slippery, because water expands when it freezes" -->so when compressed it...
Granted it's not really something I thought of on that level being from the equator.
- Compression of any kind creates heat. In the case of ice, if the surface temperature is warm enough, the heat caused by compression is enough to melt it. Not all of it, but a thin layer at the top so you slip and fall on your ass.
This video was the first thing that popped into my head after reading the headline. I wonder if he saw it once and just internalised "nobody understands it".

I once said "Some people living in 2025 aren't very far advanced from people who lived in the Dark Ages" (or Middle Age, whatever). Then somebody replied "... but they are wearing nice suits!". That's about the difference. The layer of modern civilization is thin.

Wikipedia has some interesting parts about it as well:

The Dark Ages is a term, now deprecated by most historians, for the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th–10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages (c. 5th–15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.
The concept of a "Dark Age" as a historiographical periodization originated in the 1330s with the Italian scholar Petrarch, who regarded the post-Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the "light" of classical antiquity.[1][2] The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era's supposed darkness (ignorance and error) with earlier and later periods of light (knowledge and understanding).[

Doesn't seem so far away now does it.

Magnets are a really useful thing, particularly in compasses, which allow you to find your way to Epstien Island.

I learned that magnets don't work when wet 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Maybe if you powdered the magnet first.
- Mmmmm, powdered magnets...

We can’t be starting headlines like that without considering the emotional roller coaster involved.

Im glad I wasn't the only one to be let down by the third word in that headline.

Veritasium has a nice video about how magnetism is caused by special relativity and electric force

The only problem is that any answer can be followed up with “But why does x do/cause that?”, and any answer to that can in turn be followed by the same question.
People accept, the classical explanation, that mass attracts mass so gravity “makes sense”, but when it comes to magnets the explanation isn’t so natural-feeling so most want, or at least feel that there is, more of an explanation.
And when the only further explanation left is that it works that way because it does, people feel like the phenomena has gone unanswered.
- I'd say that reality exists because people have a desire to perceive the world around them. I.e. if people didn't care, never opened their eyes, reality wouldn't exist to them. Sometimes they would randomly get hit by a bus, but they would ignore that.
  Reality only exists because people have a conscious mind that makes them perceive reality. As such, that necessitates that reality is guided by some principles, because even if reality had no principles, that in itself would be a principle. So, the exact way that electromagnetism works is only a detail, but that there are forces to begin with is solely dependent on your conscious choice to even look at the world around you.

If you're gonna post paywalls, at least quote the good parts. Y'all think we can afford to pay for news in this economy?!

He didn't really say nobody knows what a magnet is in a literal sense, I think it was just his weird way of talking. When criticing trump lets be a little careful since its important to get it right otherwise noone will believe our other critics.

they lie a thousand times a day and everyone believes them. We misquote one of them once and we're liars to never be trusted. Interesting how that works.
- A fair point but thats the world we live in. When our opponents abandon truth we have to cherish it more so that we are trusted
Trump,79, stood in front of servicepeople of the U.S. Navy and said, “You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning, and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
It really does sound like he genuinely doesn't know what magnets are. What is water got to do with magnets?
- Guess there is a reason why they do those dementia tests so often...
He absolutely said nobody knows how magnets work. Sit down.
- Well yes, but he meant that he really likes underaged girls.
You presume to understand the speakers intention. The speaker is an illiterate trust fund baby child rapist. He literally does not know how magnets work and he believes he is the smartest person on the planet, therefore he thinks no one knows how they work. There is no depth to the logic.
Did you just time travel here from 2016?
noone will believe our other critics
LOL what planet have you been living on, and can I get a ride there?
Except he directly said just that.
Generally I agree that often he'll make some flub and a bigger deal is made of it. Like with the 'Miracle Mile' vs. 'Maginficent Mile' thing, he said the wrong thing but that's the least of the problems with that story and a fairly mundane and understandable mistake to make.
This time the statement is exactly as said, though real world consequences for it are similarly low.
I like him cause he says what he thinks
You're right! He said that the magnets are new thing and he personally doesn't know how they work. It's so much better, it almost makes perfect sense, very smart president, bigly smart.
- No, he very literally said "nobody knows what a magnet is"
I agree with your sentiment, but maybe we're way past people not believing that trump is a lunatic...

It kinda just sounded like he was saying most people don’t know all the actual things magnets are used for.

Poorly worded, sure. That’s my takeaway

“President Xi was willing to do the railroad things—that’s magnets,” he said. “Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything."
That's exactly what it is. Could've been stated a little more clearly but this is a completely coherent statement. The man does a dozen deplorable things a day, are we really that starved for headlines that this is what we're reporting on?
Almost convinced that his administration is paying for these articles so people will look at them and complaints about the Epstein files as equally valid.
- "Coherent" is not the word i would use.
- When stick hit head head hurt. Big stick hit hard head hurt more. Coherent.
The water and magnets comment was about electromagnets, too. He was completely wrong about the reliability of elevators on aircraft carriers, but he wasn't saying permanent magnets can't get wet.

I tried dipping my electromagnet in water and Trump was right! It lost it's magnetism!

Mag-what nows?

I want to know what causes MAGAs, so that we can treat, or at least prevent them.

Most of Trump's sentences resemble the Monte Carlo generated texts of oldie times. Remember the ones where it seemed like someone having an aneurysm is talking? Those ones.

Could magnets be the dark(er?) gipper's jelly beans?

RIP ASS DON

Well, maybe he just watched the Richard Feynman video shoot magnets?