I'll tell you how magnets work.

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And that’s basically it!
I'll tell you how magnets work.

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."
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.
"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."
If only there was some way to check if they are lying.

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."
“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.”
Is that even English?
It's as English as this is
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.
I generally get more coherent sentences out of just repeatedly tapping my keyboard on my phone and letting auto correct just make things up..
The thing about Trump is the point of the world cup method of the world cup method of the game for the purposes of the world cup method of the world cup method of the world cup method of the league of the league of the league of the year and the company is a good idea for a while and I don't think so but I don't think.
Yeah, maybe not. But honestly it's close.
I can never get over the fact that this is real. I have seen this quote so often - and I've seen the video of him actually saying the words!- but still it seems surreal to me. The "Look, having nuclear"-quote. One for the history books, for sure.
Good thing we fired all those scientists.
Ignorant and racist.
I don't think I've ever seen a group of voters vote in someone so much like themselves.
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
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).
wait til he finds out about torrent magnet links
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
To be fair: "A magnet works because negatively charged electrons repel each other. "
"Why do negatively charged electrons repel each other? "
"..... Well .. Ok, so hear me out. You're going to need to understand quantum mechanics and then the fermion principal. Then you'll know that the electrons aren't allowed to occupy the same space, and the easiest way to avoid being in the same space is to not touch each other. The electrons know they aren't allowed to touch because they've studied fermions."
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.
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.
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?
Advisors are telling him how important rare earths are and their importance in magnets. Since China has curtailed (if not halted?) exports, the rest of the world's industries are in rather deep shit.
This is where all the mumble-fucking about magnets is coming from. Trump's trying to say they're not important, they suck, we don't need them, in order to head off supply issues. Same reason he was telling our Navy that we should replace the magnetic plane and ordnance lifters and go back to steam power. No shit.
He also seems to think America can spin up our own rare earth supply, but acknowledges he basically begging and threatening Xi in the meantime.
Anyway, today's rant finally tied it all together for me.
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?
Magnets are a really useful thing, particularly in compasses, which allow you to find your way to Epstien Island.

I tried dipping my electromagnet in water and Trump was right! It lost it's magnetism!
I know what a magnet is. I even know how a magnet works! And it's not magic!
I read another comment that makes sense. When he says nobody knows he truly believes if he doesn't know it then no one does.
Imagine the disconnect between thinking he's the smartest person in the world and the cold, hard fact that just about everyone in the world knows a lot more than he does. Maybe that explains some of the endless rage. Well, that and being fat, ugly and having a small penis (none of which would be all that significant to a well-adjusted person).