Donald Trump’s weird 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 City, Iowa, about electric catapults and magnetic elevator systems for U.S. aircraft carriers.
The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”
On X (née Twitter), a video that was shared of Trump’s comment was fact-checked with a community note.
“Magnets work underwater and are not affected by water. Magnetic fields are not the same as electrical circuits,” read the reader-contributed context.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell called Trump’s comment “relentlessly stupid.”
Other critics agreed:
Donald Trump said that magnets don’t work in water, that no one would know who Lincoln was if we hadn’t had a Civil War & that there were airports during the Revolutionary War, all while bragging about being able to identify an elephant correctly.
Because he’s a fucking moron. pic.twitter.com/ZNpyFqAfXZ
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) January 7, 2024
you know i think this is going to make it hard for them to argue biden is mentally unfit
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) January 6, 2024
When Donald Trump rants on wetting magnets he becomes “Will Deny the Science Guy”
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) January 6, 2024
Sorry! Sorry! I know that the Fanta Fuhrer is not a welcome sight on the timeline for many of you, but this morons take on magnets is pretty hilarious- https://t.co/fwYfgfoqOt
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 6, 2024
‘Scientists always tell me, sir, you have the most amazing science. It’s true, I have tremendous science and science loves me. No one know more about tremendous science than me…’ https://t.co/mBgsk8K2Xn
— Simon Scarrow (@SimonScarrow) January 6, 2024
Yep. Trump should definitely have nuclear codes and access to classified documents.
— Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) January 6, 2024
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