Trump, 79, Gets Confused Explaining Water to the Navy

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.

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.

Going for the juggalo vote?

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.

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

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.

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog/can-magnets-rust

Why... why would he think that?

The 79-year-old president then stumbled over his words and failed to complete a coherent sentence

Has he ever been able to complete a coherent sentence?

He’s said some incredibly stupid things, but this is next level.

The hamster powering his brain is clearly just a rotting pile of sludge now. How can anyone look at this masterclass in utter ignorance and see anything other than a senile old fool who should be in a nursing home for his own protection?

Nearly 80% of republicans think this is okay? What wouldn’t they think is okay from him? It seems they’d be fine with his actual corpse being wheeled round on a trolley by Vance & co. Astounding.

You should note at least that this poll is of 2000 people in Geprgia.

They'll just keep propping him up, telling everyone he's fine, and they will believe it

Street party at least

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.

Idiocracy critical mass was achieved in 2015.

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.

As you can see from the article he seems to be obsessed with them in general.

Bless his heart

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.

As for the last 8 years

There are two types: neodymium magnets and samarium–cobalt magnets. Rare-earth magnets are extremely brittle and are vulnerable to corrosion, so they are usually plated or coated to protect them from breaking, chipping, or crumbling into powder.

Yeah, 100%

Ooh, wow, careful with those fancy words there. That sounds something like what some nerd scientist would say.

Hydraulic good because hit by lightning fine

Especially if hit by lightning. Totally fine.

• Urge to share weird hot takes in public long after their hit NBC shows left the airwaves
• Eaned far more than they’re worth
• Too much interest in high schoolers
• Unwavering support for genocide

The article says magnets discovered by Chinese in 200 BC so a little over 2000 years. I am not a historian to verify though.

Stable genius

Tbh I would go for a lot more VU meters.

Let's mix it up and do the Fallout timeline so 1950s with nuclear added.

However he mentioned pouring a glass of water.

Nice try though.

It could be because he said it like this:

“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.”

Salt water corrodes nearly everything. It's the salt.

Why would you give this man the benefit of the doubt at this point?

It doesn't really matter what scientific information has been given about magnets, we see before us what his brain turned it into.