Trump, 79, Gets Confused Explaining Water to the Navy

[douglas9]

Donald Trump went on a deranged rant about the power of water to destroy magnets during a rambling address to the U.S. Navy just off the coast of Japan.

Speaking aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during his tour of East Asia, the president appeared to suggest—in a largely incoherent speech—that he is pushing for aircraft carriers to use “steam for the catapults” and hydraulics for elevators, while wrongly claiming that water can disable magnets.

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 of the $13 billion flagship of the class.

“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,” Trump said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-gets-confused-explaining-water-to-the-navy/

[Blues Heron]

1. This guy tore down the White House on a whim

[allegorical oracle]

22. Maybe he thought there were magnets buried inside. And with the weak WH water

system, he had no way to get rid of them (water neutralizes magnets) other than to send in the wrecking balls. Or, he may have thought there were sharks in the walls. We're not dealing with sanity, here.

[jmowreader]

27. These sharks had laser beams on their heads, right?

Trump probably really does think Austin Powers is a documentary.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. THINGS that make you go..."Hmmm"

And this from a "very smart person"?

[patphil]

3. The only thing trump got right is the statement, "I don't know what's going to happen".

Mike Johnson has the same lack of knowledge. He doesn't seem to know anything either.

[republianmushroom]

46. But mikey is just trumps pimp

does need to know much. Except, "Yes, My God".

[Botany]

4. "You know, the new thing is magnets."

Magnets are a new thing? Does he even know that the Navy has been using knowledge about
magnets and the magnetic poles for their compasses for years?

He is crazy.

[Wednesdays]

7. The Chinese started using compasses 2000 years ago

And Europeans by 1000 years ago.

He probably thinks the catapults on ships are medieval artillery weapons.

[Botany]

40. He was upset when the U.S. Navy switched from steam driven catapults to electromagnetic ones

in his first term. He thought the steam looked cooler. God forbid if he learned that the U.S. Navy used
magnetometers in WW II in Its anti submarine operations.

[allegorical oracle]

41. He's so ignorant that it's like he grew up living in a hole in the ground -- with no

education and little contact with other humans. He's positive that he's a genius, but he sure is missing some extreme basics of being alive and aware of the civilization around him. A Brit friend of mine suggested that djt may actually have been reared in the wild by wolves.

[Botany]

43. No wolves are smart thinking beings that support their pack and their families and they work for the ..

… common good. I got to know 3 a few years back …. 80 % wolf answer 20 % husky. If the big male
liked you he would come and lean on you and he didn’t like to be petted. They liked my black lab.

Trump is an idiot who is be operated by others.

[Midnight Writer]

5. This is not the first time he has publicly claimed that magnets do not work if they get wet.

Ken Paxton is probably working up a lawsuit against companies for making magnets that don't work when they get wet.

[Wednesdays]

9. When I was a kid, I had a compass watch

And the compass was encased in water!

[progressoid]

37. Sounds like a Commie Chinese Antifa terrorist watch@@!!11

[PatSeg]

6. Oh my god, that made my head hurt!

[Raven123]

8. Maybe he meant MAGAnuts.

Still doesn’t make sense, but who knows what he was talking about.

[struggle4progress]

10. The dude's cuckcoo for cocoa puffs

[Solly Mack]

11. The man knows nothing. Less than nothing.

[Torchlight]

12. Plaque buildup on his brain is becoming much more noticeable these days

I hope the nation can survive his increasingly dramatic mental degeneration. There's till three years and come change to go (all things being equal). I give the nation a three to one chance to come out on top (relative to the here and now) after he finally poops out his last diaper full of tantrums.

[Paladin]

13. And, yet again: if BIDEN had spouted the exact-same drivel, word-for-word...

...the Washington Post, the NY Times, CBS, and the rest of the mainstream media would be screaming about it for weeks to come.

And yet again: trump gets treated with kid gloves, and just keeps getting away with it. Beyond shameful.

[surfered]

14. The Limpet Mine was developed in WWII and attaches to the hull of ship below the waterline by a magnet.

Trump is not only demented, but an idiot. And the GOP let’s him act on these random notions rolling around in his big empty head.

[PCIntern]

39. Fake news:

“There was no such thing as a Limpet mine. Hillary and Obama fed that to the lamestream media.

And what’s more, they managed to insert it into James Bond books in the 1950’s by a magical trick. Nobody’s ever seen anything like that before.” - Possible Orangina response to your post.

[thought crime]

15. This could happen to any person

who has less than a high school education and who is on the left side of the bell curve and sliding down like a downhill racer.

Trump doesn't like magnets and he doesn't like windmills. Nothing can change that, ever.

[paleotn]

25. Not too hip on batteries either

And sharks! He’s deathly afraid of sharks.

[yellowcanine]

16. Why are sailors pouring their drinks on the magnets?

Asking makes my hair hurt.

[dalton99a]

17. Magnetic is very, very bad

[allegorical oracle]

42. Well, didn't they send the space shuttles up with steam??

[MineralMan]

18. That's why all those magnet fishing videos are fake, I guess.

Magnets don't work under water. Right...Uh...

[twodogsbarking]

19. There is no limit to what trump doesn't know.

[James48]

20. He just gave away state secrets!

Nobody was supposed to know magnets don’t work in the rain.

[twodogsbarking]

21. How do insulated cups know when to keep something hot or cold?

Please have Trump explain.

[lastlib]

23. Good thing his uncle at MIT was a genius---

'cause HE SURE AIN'T!!! SMDH

That up there was some weapons-grade STOOPID!

[William Seger]

31. Willful ignorance is indistinguishable from stupidity

He's still trying very, very hard to avoid knowing who pays tariffs.

[paleotn]

24. He's bitching about carrier EMALS now?

What a fucking loon. Elected by equally fucking loons. Hey! Isn’t the earths magnetic field counter acted by the earth’s oceans? By rain? Ummm, no.

[Ilsa]

26. We need to encourage his "teaching" moments in his

speeches, especially when the audience knows more about it anyway. It compounds public knowledge of his STUPIDITY in the best way: from the source.

[jmowreader]

29. Bitching about EMALS is not a new thing for Trump

He was going off on it in his last term.

[niyad]

33. Not everybody is familiar with military acronyms. It is helpful to identify

them in first use.

[keep_left]

35. It's long been one of Trump's inscrutable obsessions...

...like tariffs, "windmills" (aka wind turbines), solar power, and more recently, Tylenol. My guess is that he saw something about EMALS on Fox "News" years ago.

[DET]

28. Well...

It’s all downhill from here.

[niyad]

30. This is The Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me this is The Onion!!!

[milestogo]

32. I thought this was satire.

I wish it was satire.

[MiHale]

34. Overheard in the White House..."A sailor came up to me and said...

“Sir, do you know water is wet?”
“And I hade a sudden flash…water is slippery especially when it’s frozen…I heard of the magnetic North Pole and in my brilliance it came to me, frozen…wet frozen magnets are slippery they can’t stick.”

[NBachers]

36. So did he get a big thunderous rousing chorus of cheers on the ship, like last time?

[LW1977]

38. Hey Tapper, how about a book about this!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. trump is senile

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Gore1FL]

45. He has never understood magnetism. This isn;t his first rant on the subject.

This one happened in January of 2024:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ridiculed-bizarre-magnet-remarks-iowa-rally-1858420

He's an idiot.

[Hugin]

47. Spoiler Alert: I just proved Titanic Tito wrong with a simple experiment using refrigerator magnets and a cup of common...

Tap water.

The magnets still work fine.