“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,” Trump said.
He thinks that magnets can be foiled by water.
The race to the bottom of intelligence is neck and neck between Donald Trump himself and the slack jawed bozos that vote for him. There is no winner to the “Lights Are On, But They Are Motion Sensor” Award.
The morons voting him as the leader are by FAAAR the bigger morons. Like magnitudes bigger. He’s gifting those morons straight to the bank.
I think what’s he’s getting confused about is that they’re using electromagnets, which the circuitry of could certainly be damaged by water.
I suspect someone at some point communicated some kind of potential problem the navy could be having, and he just went “magnets + water = bad, got it”. Which is what I think the real point should be here. It’s not so much that the president is confused about how magnets work, its more that someone at some point mentioned some kind of existing or potential situation and he is just spewing it back out without really understanding it.
Like basically the president of the fucking United States is not capable of understanding someone telling him that electromagnets can be damaged by water and/or is unable to communicate that basic concept.
Never mind every other fucking electronic thing on a modern aircraft carrier.
Nobody tell him that fighter jets sink in the water, he’ll have all the carriers decommissioned because “Planes don’t go on water. Why are we sending airplanes into the ocean, they’ll just sink!”
Well, to be fair, we do seem to be doing that a lot
One of those was a helicopter, which in fairness, also does not go on water.
Yeah, see, you don’t need to worry about planes sinking in the water if you don’t take them out in the water. Melt all the carriers down and make shitty branded watches out of them to sell to dopes for way too much money.
Going for the juggalo vote?
With the economy as it is, we may all need to switch to Faygo.
It’s what plants crave.
It mutilates thirst!
I might be broke but at least I ain’t got no money
He STILL thinks this somehow after saying it like 18 months ago too. I don’t know how no one told him he sounds like a fucking moron after the first time he said it publicly.
Because he surrounds himself with sycophants. Anyone who would have pushed back is gone.
Someone probably did tell him. But he forgot. Because he’s old, and probably has dementia.
The article has a translation
The elderly president was talking about the magnetic catapults used to launch planes from the latest Navy super carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford class, and the electromagnetic elevators used to move weaponry to the flight deck. Both systems double the speed with which planes can be armed and launched but slowed the delivery and commissioning
If you remember the news a few years back there were all sorts of delays and problems caused by switching from hydraulics to magnetic/electrical. It’s probably a vague memory of more complexity than he can handle. A sane president would have had someone with expertise go over his speech
It was the first time so as long as all the issues have been worked out and the next one is smoother, we’re good
Where does the water come in
During his first term, he wanted to keep using steam, then somebody explained that magnets are better and steam kinda sucks
I can’t tell if this is true or not.
Considering that Trump has taken ignorance-based misinformation to a whole new level, it seems only fitting that “that sounds so absurd, it’s plausible he said that” has and/or will become part of his legacy.
I honestly don’t remember what specific problems they had during development but it’s easy to believe dealing with harsh environment at sea for long periods was one of them. You can probably look them up easily enough. It’s got moving parts and high power electronics on an open deck and the boat can be at sea for months …
He thinks that magnets can be foiled by water.
Yes, which is 1 million percent true. Just ask any aquarium hobbyist or electromagnetic elevator engineer.
Why… why would he think that?
He once owned an iron magnet which got wet and then rusted? That is probably still too logical for him but it’s the only kind of plausible chain of thought I can come up with.
I can only assume that the spirochetes in his brain are dying off, and all that’s left up there is cat food.
Electromagnets maybe?
Seems like I’m gonna whip out the champagne soon
They’ll just keep propping him up, telling everyone he’s fine, and they will believe it
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That article is unfortunately gone and I couldn’t find the link on the archive sites I know
That second one was a nothing burger really, but I wonder if it’s the same (the second link is from April of this year)
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Like they do with mumbling Mitch Mcconnell?
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Worked for Cuba, North Korea, etc for awhile.
Street party at least
Every mainstream media outlet talking about Biden at 79: “He’s so incredibly OLD!!!”
Talking about Trump: (anything but his age)
Since 2014 or whenever he started campaigning I’ve been wondering why any sane person would offer that dimwit a microphone.
Apparently there are far fewer sane people than I had hoped.
Or the insane ones somehow ended up in influential positions more often.They don’t listen to the speech, they listen to sound bites out of context while some pseudo intellectual tells them how it made the libs cry while trying to get them to purchase unregulated supplements and boner pills to “support the cause” ie. Pay them.
exactly. And they’ve made up a term for it to make him sound smarter than he really is.
They call “the weave”.
As if Trump is masterfully moving from subject to subject, connecting dots, seeing the patterns… and not, ya know, fucking rambling like a senile old person.
Idiocracy critical mass was achieved in 2015.
Bad example, because President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho wanted to improve things and (at least in the end) actually listened to the smartest guy around
Truth
I feel honored
Account made 2 years ago. It’s real!
The fool was always given a dunce cap (maybe gold plated made in China in this case) and placed in a corner to spout his gibberish.
I’ve been wondering why any sane person would listen to this fool and even vote for him. Do they even listen to what comes out of his mouth?
Stupid people in America believed some obvious bullshit claims made on a literal reality TV show.
He let slip he had an MRI recently, which explains why magnets are on the brain. Very interesting
As you can see from the article he seems to be obsessed with them in general.
Remember when he claimed that magnets stop working if they get wet?
Yes, again because article
From years of reading SkyMall catalogs. Magnets cure everything.
This is starting to get dangerously close to some SCP-1981 shit.
(I know, I know, real life already vastly surpassed all potential of art in the realm of presidential incomprehensibility in Trump’s first term.)
Magnets. How do they even work? Nobody knows.
Isn’t that special.
I should’ve searched for Dana Carvey meme lol. Thanks!
Bless his heart
Trump, 79, Gets Confused
Explaining Water to the NavyYou can save letters if you just stop there. It will work for the next 400 articles until the orange mayonnaise golem is called back by the witch that created him out of blob of smegma and tanning spray.
Hey now, let’s leave disparaging witches to the puritanical hypocrites, eh? 🤌🏼
Satan loves us all equally. 🤘🏼❤️🔥
Except MAGAts. I hear he’d really rather not have them around at all.
/me looks around.
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Huh. Satire writers really are having a tough time right now.
As for the last 8 years
Someone please edit the Wikipedia page for magnets to add the fact that water cancels them out.
Lmao who is downvoting a Wikipedia quote?
I didn’t, but it also doesn’t mention water
Wait until he finds out that brake fluid is hygroscopic.
Ooh, wow, careful with those fancy words there. That sounds something like what some nerd scientist would say.
Believe it or not, this has something to do with China trade policy. He’s rambled before about China controlling rare earth magnets. I believe magnets were specifically called out in the first China trade ”deal.”
Someone has clearly told this doddering old fool that China produces most of the world’s rare earth magnets, and being stupid, he drew the conclusion that magnets = China = bad.
Stop this ride, I want to get off.
Yeah, 100%
Sarah Palin looks like a genius compared to this jackass.
