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Except Feynman did answer in the end, or at least gave us an idea of what's going on without diving into the hard physics. The journey there was to teach us that asking questions doesn't always lead to a simple answer, and can lead to more questions.
Trump probably got two of those very strong neodymium magnets together and can't get them apart, so now he's confused and pissed at China because that's where they were bought.
If I remember right, he did have more to tell the interviewer about the workings of magnets but much of it was about how they're just a specific peculiarity of something that happens all the time with literally everything we see that we don't question because we're used to it, only that we think the same thing is strange when we see it lined up a certain way on a macro level, so we try to look for analogies that make us feel like we've made sense of it. But that ultimately there is no analogy that he or anyone could make to the macro human-experiential world that would be adequate. It's like rubber bands - well no, it's really not. It's like the solar system - well no, it's really not. And that while he could tell you a bit more about what was going on at a deeper level, which he did, eventually you and everyone else just has to accept that yeah, this do be what it do, and there truly is nothing further that we can say about why it do. In the same conversation he talks about how physics, rather our understanding of it, is like peeling an onion, and we don't know if there is a final deepest layer we haven't reached or if it just keeps on forever with more layers (either way it's fun to try to find out).