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Trump says ‘no one knows what magnets are’ during bizarre Oval Office exchange
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
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He does wear face paint
And he also sucks
Hey, now. The Insane Clown Posse are anti-Trump. And their album "The Great Milenko" is actually pretty fun to listen to.
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There was a British comedian I remember from a while back.... Matt something... that talked about meeting a Texan couple on a plane once and the wife expressed her amazement at the marvel of flight, which is fair because flight is pretty amazing. But instead of just being amazed, she then said something like, "we'll never know how it all works". Like a collective we, like everyone. Like she thinks that aerospace engineers are just guessing, trying out throwing shapes into the sky until something doesn't drop to the ground. "Nope. Sphere didnt do it. Probably shouldn't have filled that one with people, either. Let's try the cube next!"
Some people are so stupid they don't realize that they are stupid and that plenty of people, MOST people, in fact, are smarter than them and understand a lot of stuff they don't. Like it's not even Dunning-Kreuger because they dont know the first thing about the subject at all, and they will even admit that often times. Just unadulterated hubris to assume their ignorance is universal.
Everything is simple if you don't know anything about it.
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Damn, that's crazy, where are the Epstein files?
Under a pile of Chinese magnets - but no one knows how or why they work so they're frightened of touching them incase they get wet, stop working and the world stops turning.
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Whenever he tries to repeat the patient, over-simplified explanations that have been given to him and screws it up because he still didn't understand what they were talking about, I picture the scenes that must be occurring on a regular basis:
People standing around him, some drawing pictures, others arranging things on the table, "Say this coffee mug is the nuclear enrichment facility, and this pen is the Tomahawk missile. It goes woooooooooooooooooo through the sky..."
Explanation doesn't include talk about him. He'd lose interest half way through.
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How the fuck is this guy still in power? Hes clearly mentally ill/demented.
You guys overthrew us British for far less.
You guys overthrew us British for far less.
This is an insanely good point.
You guys overthrew us British for far less.
That was back when the US had a spine. Nowadays we're the dried up old man who won't shut up about how good at football he was when he was in his 20s.
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If we can explain to the morons that a tarriff is a tax, we might get somewhere. I seem to recall us being upset about taxes on "hemp" and "British coffee," or something.
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Is this Donald j Trump, self avowed best friend of Jeffrey r Epstein, and fellow child rapist?
Yes, that's the one! Famously buddies with Epstein and credibly accused of sexual assault of children on several occasions. Convicted felon Trump, the very same.
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Jesus Christ. Charlie Kelly is smarter than him.
"Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power. Good. Thank you, thank you."
Remember when a person this fucking stupid couldn't get elected the highest officer in the States?
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Insane Clown Posse as president and vice president would be an upgrade. Actually, America needs a third party anyway. Next election, someone run under the Insane Clown Party banner. Might as well let an actual carnival take over.
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Someone probably tried to teach him how rare earths are important to manufacture electronics like he is five years old. And like a five year old he is, he of course didn't understand.
I'm lost for words. Every time he says something, it's the dumbest thing I've heard. And I always think to myself, this is it. this is peak stupid. There is no way he can say something dumber than this with a straight face.
I really thought we peaked when he tried to tell their Navy, that they don't know what happens when you put water on a magnet. The god damn navy.
But here we are. With the president of the USA, telling us, with a straight face, being serious, that no one knows how magnets work. Next he'll probably try to tell us we don't know how electricity works.
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Here's the smarter way of saying it:
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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Trump is the sort of person who is so self-centered, he probably doesn't understand that other people know things he doesn't. People like him tend to be conspiracy theorists because they assume anything they don't understand has to be a lie
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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....
Trump is a hidden Juggalo?
Woah. I mean, yeah he's a clown. But I'm not so sure ICP is down with him.
Non fucking stop winning! Look at this man. The smartest man in the world! Y’all wish you were a fraction of a percent as smart of this guy. Your IQ like 1600% lower than his. What a fucking legend.
Also, he’s a pedophile and rapist.
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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.
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Donald Trump spouting a Juggalo-adjacent line wasn't on my bingo card.
Magnets are the mystical technology behind healing beds, also foot insoles from SkyMall.
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