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Trump says ‘no one knows what magnets are’ during bizarre Oval Office exchange
(www.the-independent.com)
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He wouldn't make it past the first few minutes. Even if he has the capacity to get the points Feynman was making, he'd never sit and actually listen to try and understand something. Remember, he already knows everything. Except when he doesn't, and because his ego is so massive, if he doesn't understand something, clearly no one can. Or when he learns something, no one else knew it before.
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Dude is clearly incapable of giving a coherent thought even if it was handed to him.
Not "no one knows what magnets are". We all know what magnets are.
More like "most people don't know how important rare-earth magnets are to modern life". That's the more important take.
But trying to express a message through Trump is like playing Telephone with Anne Frank, sooo....
Anne Frank? Do you mean Helen Keller? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eh it works.
Anne Frank wouldn't be very good at Telephone either. She's dead.
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There's a clip from months ago of Trump seeming to claim that pouring water over magnets would "break" them like you'd expect it to break electronic devices... Frankly, I'm surprised that it wasn't talked about more.
It wasn't months, it was weeks. I know it feels longer with him constantly spewing idiotic thoughts.
It was actually both. So either nobody corrected him, or they did and he was like ummm, I'm the smartest person in the universe, so I'm pretty sure I know more about magnets than anybody, so I'm gonna keep speaking truth about magnets. Or he forgot because his brain is dissolving. Like the magnets do in water, according to president stroke.
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He also stared at a solar eclipse.
I believe Faraday and Maxwell would like a word...
Fake news, leftist who don’t believe in our lord and savior Jesus Christ.
This is that bell curve meme with Trump on the left side and Richard Feynman on the right. Funny how true it is that dipshits and geniuses often say the same things. When asked how magnets work, Feynman concluded his explanation with:
I’m not going to be able to give you an answer to “why do magnets attract each other”, except to tell you that they do.
I unfortunately watched the 60 Minutes bit last sunday on farmers getting fucked over by trump (parents had it on). It ended with one of the farmers saying "he's a very smart man, I'm not gonna take that away from him." The thought of the mental state you have to be in to think trump is a genius is just soul-crushing.
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Magnets are the mystical technology behind healing beds, also foot insoles from SkyMall.
Ragebaiting at its finest 🙏
Probably saw it in some passing meme while he endlessly scrolls Twitter and Truth Social between golf and Mar a Lago.
Dear MAGA, I've a magical formula with which I can create magnet just by using some copper and electricity. If you give me 10Billion USD I'll help you make as much magnets as you want. \s
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