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Let me guess: Trump asked someone what rare earths were used for, and someone told him they were to make magnets, especially for EV motors. Now, when having answer questions about this, the best he can say is no one knows. Also, I guess "EV" is worse than a curse word in his Gas & Oil Party.
If this guy wants to be taken seriously he's gonna have to start wearing more makeup than trump
And a candy floss wig to boot
Wait till someone tries to explain Maxwell Laws. If he's talking about quantum mechanics in relation to magnetism, then maybe we can belive him which I somehow doubt he knows exist.
The Maxwell law? Isnt that when trump has to take TWO underage girls to the room instead of just one?
Ghislaine coincidentally has the same family name as James Clerk, which is all a troll needs to steer this into a totally unrelated direction.
"Look if you're gonna build a magnet system it'll take 2 years."
I'm glad he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about because if he did I might feel bad for not understandig.
Tide comes in, tide goes out. Can't explain that
The Erath is flat. Can't explain that either.
Someone probably tried to teach him how rare earths are important to manufacture electronics like he is five years old. And like a five year old he is, he of course didn't understand.
Donald Trump spouting a Juggalo-adjacent line wasn't on my bingo card.
I'm lost for words. Every time he says something, it's the dumbest thing I've heard. And I always think to myself, this is it. this is peak stupid. There is no way he can say something dumber than this with a straight face.
I really thought we peaked when he tried to tell their Navy, that they don't know what happens when you put water on a magnet. The god damn navy.
But here we are. With the president of the USA, telling us, with a straight face, being serious, that no one knows how magnets work. Next he'll probably try to tell us we don't know how electricity works.
everything is projection with these anti-intellectual shitbags. they don't understand how ANYTHING fucking works, beyond the grift, and therefore NO ONE could possibly know.
dear god hard drive disks alone..... so fucking dumb.
Remember when a person this fucking stupid couldn't get elected the highest officer in the States?
Twice.
Nope. But then, Reagan had Nancy at his side to provide the smarts.
And Nancy had her astrologer.
Everyone says...
No one knows...
He really believes his thoughts are the totality of human knowledge.
This is common with these sociopaths. Our middle-aged techbro overlords too are hugely ignorant, yet convinced that the only knowledge worth having is what they already know, and the only jobs worth doing are the ones they can do.
Trump is the sort of person who is so self-centered, he probably doesn't understand that other people know things he doesn't. People like him tend to be conspiracy theorists because they assume anything they don't understand has to be a lie
I won't lie, I wasn't sure how magnets worked when I read the headline. Realizing this, I went and looked it up and educated myself.
Magnets are fucking cool btw.
Damn, that's crazy, where are the Epstein files?
Under a pile of Chinese magnets - but no one knows how or why they work so they're frightened of touching them incase they get wet, stop working and the world stops turning.
There was a British comedian I remember from a while back.... Matt something... that talked about meeting a Texan couple on a plane once and the wife expressed her amazement at the marvel of flight, which is fair because flight is pretty amazing. But instead of just being amazed, she then said something like, "we'll never know how it all works". Like a collective we, like everyone. Like she thinks that aerospace engineers are just guessing, trying out throwing shapes into the sky until something doesn't drop to the ground. "Nope. Sphere didnt do it. Probably shouldn't have filled that one with people, either. Let's try the cube next!"
Some people are so stupid they don't realize that they are stupid and that plenty of people, MOST people, in fact, are smarter than them and understand a lot of stuff they don't. Like it's not even Dunning-Kreuger because they dont know the first thing about the subject at all, and they will even admit that often times. Just unadulterated hubris to assume their ignorance is universal.
Like she thinks that aerospace engineers are just guessing, trying out throwing shapes into the sky until something doesn’t drop to the ground.
Having worked in my checkered past in aerospace for a decade or so, there's a very small grain of truth in that. While there is a lot of enginneering that goes back to first principles (physics and math), there are also what are euphemistically called "empirically determined constants." That's because, even when the equations are known, they can sometimes be a pig to actually compute ("ill-conditioned"), requiring absurd amounts of computer power.
So if I were on the plane next to that couple, I'd have said "Yep, we're flyin' on a wing and a prayer and there's a non-zero chance we could auger into the ground at any time. But don't fret, it doesn't happen all that often."
I have no particular love for ICP, but man, they don't deserve that.
The ICP group is anti-Trump and as silly as the ICP aesthetic is, juggalos seem like generally a positive community. They just want to get high and make friends. They are basically hippies in face paint.
So yeah, I get the connection but seems like this is doing them dirty.
I believe Faraday and Maxwell would like a word...
Fake news, leftist who don’t believe in our lord and savior Jesus Christ.
Non fucking stop winning! Look at this man. The smartest man in the world! Y’all wish you were a fraction of a percent as smart of this guy. Your IQ like 1600% lower than his. What a fucking legend.
Also, he’s a pedophile and rapist.
I saw a lot of people say that they genuinely believe that he's a genius. It absolutely blows my mind. Sometimes you hear things like: did you know Macaulay Culkin is an actual genius? (Idk) And you go: well maybe, yeah i could imagine that. But Donald Trump? You couldn't make a supercut out of his delusional talking to make him seem smart.
I like the ones that think he is truth. That he has never said a single lie or misleading statement or anything resembling a lie. Ever. In his life. People actually think this. And those people vote.
Is this Donald j Trump, self avowed best friend of Jeffrey r Epstein, and fellow child rapist?
How the fuck is this guy still in power? Hes clearly mentally ill/demented.
You guys overthrew us British for far less.
You guys overthrew us British for far less.
This is an insanely good point.
Whenever he tries to repeat the patient, over-simplified explanations that have been given to him and screws it up because he still didn't understand what they were talking about, I picture the scenes that must be occurring on a regular basis:
People standing around him, some drawing pictures, others arranging things on the table, "Say this coffee mug is the nuclear enrichment facility, and this pen is the Tomahawk missile. It goes woooooooooooooooooo through the sky..."
