Donald Trump’s bizarre marketing campaign rally tangent about magnets attracted mockery on social media.
The Republican 2024 front-runner on Friday complained to a crowd of supporters in Mason Metropolis, Iowa, about electrical catapults and magnetic elevator methods for U.S. plane carriers.
The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I learn about magnets is that this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the top of the magnets.”
On X (née Twitter), a video that was shared of Trump’s remark was fact-checked with a neighborhood notice.
“Magnets work underwater and will not be affected by water. Magnetic fields will not be the identical as electrical circuits,” learn the reader-contributed context.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell known as Trump’s remark “relentlessly silly.”
Different critics agreed:
Donald Trump stated that magnets don’t work in water, that nobody would know who Lincoln was if we hadn’t had a Civil Warfare & that there have been airports in the course of the Revolutionary Warfare, all whereas bragging about having the ability to establish an elephant accurately.
As a result of he’s a fucking moron. pic.twitter.com/ZNpyFqAfXZ
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) January 7, 2024
you realize i believe that is going to make it exhausting for them to argue biden is mentally unfit
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) January 6, 2024
When Donald Trump rants on wetting magnets he turns into “Will Deny the Science Man”
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) January 6, 2024
Sorry! Sorry! I do know that the Fanta Fuhrer just isn’t a welcome sight on the timeline for a lot of of you, however this morons tackle magnets is fairly hilarious- https://t.co/fwYfgfoqOt
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 6, 2024
‘Scientists at all times inform me, sir, you’ve gotten probably the most superb science. It’s true, I’ve super science and science loves me. Nobody know extra about super science than me…’ https://t.co/mBgsk8K2Xn
— Simon Scarrow (@SimonScarrow) January 6, 2024
Yep. Trump ought to positively have nuclear codes and entry to labeled paperwork.
— Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) January 6, 2024
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