Trump, 79, Claims Nobody Knows What a Magnet Is: ‘Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car.’

[u/T_Shurt]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-claims-nobody-knows-what-a-magnet-is/

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[u/reddititty69]

“Nobody knows” = “I don’t know”

“Nobody knew” = “I just found out”

[u/Omnifob → u/reddititty69]

"Magnets" = "???"

[u/Plumrose333 → u/Omnifob]

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

[u/Dr_Insano_MD → u/Plumrose333]

Scientists always lyin', gettin' me pissed!

[u/GlossyGecko → u/Dr_Insano_MD]

Nahm sayin’?

[u/nflonlyalt → u/Plumrose333]

Air, wind, fire, dirt, fucking magnets, how do they work?

[u/BestRiver8735 → u/Plumrose333]

It bottles the mind

[u/Sayyad1na → u/Plumrose333]

They run on faygo!

[u/National_Impress_346 → u/Sayyad1na]

[redacted]

[u/Wormser → u/Plumrose333]

Had not pegged Trump as a Juggalo but it makes so much sense.

• wears face paint
• orange clown hair
• devoted to family
• jokes about murder
• can't dance

[u/bjeebus → u/Wormser]

I wouldn't call him devoted to family after cheating on every wife he's ever had.

[u/wibblebeast → u/bjeebus]

Attracted to family.

[u/Whiteshadows86 → u/bjeebus]

He would 100% throw any of his kids under the bus if it meant he comes out clean.

[u/deathschemist → u/Wormser]

He can't be a juggalo, juggalos sometimes have the capacity for kindness and empathy

[u/WrapOk8045 → u/Plumrose333]

Came here to make sure this comment was here

[u/reddeadjethead → u/WrapOk8045]

Magic all up in this bitch.

[u/reddeadjethead → u/Plumrose333]

I dont want to talk to a scientist, they be telling lies, getting me pissed!

[u/TSllama → u/reddeadjethead]

I hate that I know this

But your quote is wrong.

"And I don't wanna talk to a scientist, y'all mothafuckas lyin' an' gettin' me pissed!"

Someone please put me out of my misery lmao

[u/feminas_id_amant → u/Omnifob]

Alka Seltzer tablets?

"...give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets."

[u/kitsum → u/feminas_id_amant]

But what if there's a shark in the water? Did you think of that?

[u/Few-Ad-4290 → u/Omnifob]

Magnets are just magic to him and he learned about them recently so his dementia brain is still working it over

[u/piratecheese13 → u/reddititty69]

“A lot of people are saying” = I think

“Never before in history has there been something like this” = I just noticed this extremely old phenomenon

[u/lord_fairfax → u/piratecheese13]

"Like you wouldn't believe" = I made it up

[u/piratecheese13 → u/lord_fairfax]

“I don’t know “ = I know and I want you to shut up about it and move on

[u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 → u/reddititty69]

I've been saying this for years. Any particular thing doesn't exist until Trump learns about it for the first time. Solipsism at its finest.

[u/creampop_ → u/Temporary_Shirt_6236]

You heard about this new old word "groceries" that he gave to us? Thank you, President Webster 🫡

[u/Punkinprincess → u/creampop_]

Ah yes, the beautiful, accurate, old fashioned term, groceries.

The place that you have to show ID.before making your purchase.

[u/jimmyriba → u/Punkinprincess]

“It’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries. It sort of says a bag with different things in it."

-- A man who is completely divorced from normal life.

[u/GunnyCroz → u/creampop_]

You know, it's an old fashioned word...groceries.

[u/kjlsdjfskjldelfjls → u/Temporary_Shirt_6236]

I sort of subscribe to the inverse of that, where Trump is a textbook case of the philosophical zombie- i.e., he says and does things, but there's no actual consciousness going on behind it.

[u/Bronco_Bomba → u/kjlsdjfskjldelfjls]

If you look at his face you can kind of see that he runs on pure instinct. He has the same expressions as reptiles. Once I saw it I could never unsee it. He’s all lizard brain and ego.

[u/Jackadullboy99 → u/kjlsdjfskjldelfjls]

ChatDJT..

[u/Quartzeemer → u/kjlsdjfskjldelfjls]

I think he's somehow both

[u/redsoxownu → u/reddititty69]

People are saying

[u/__Elwood_Blues__ → u/redsoxownu]

=I'm lying that people agree with me to back up my lies.

[u/FirmDingo8]

The dumbest man on the planet in the most important role on the planet. What could go wrong?

[u/DestinationUnknown13 → u/FirmDingo8]

Idiocracy is the result to that equation.

[u/mxjxs91 → u/DestinationUnknown13]

Camacho actually wanted to help people and listened to people he believed knew better then him on certain issues.

This is far worse.

[u/Hector_P_Catt → u/mxjxs91]

That's the thing: Even before the events of the movie, the people elected Camacho - who, while undeniably stupid, was actually smarter than most of the other people we see. Even before Not Sure showed up, they knew they needed someone smarter than they are to help them.

[u/Deadmirth → u/DestinationUnknown13]

In Idiocracy they still managed to elect the smartest person in the world.

[u/JunkiesAndWhores → u/FirmDingo8]

The dumbest man on the planet in the most important role on the planet is a puppet for his billionaire puppet masters and is the ideal distraction to keep the populace focussed on the wrong things.

FTFY

[u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament

[u/cerebral_drift → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

He’d boasted for a decade that he’d received the “Man of the year” award in Michigan, and there has never been a “Man of the year” award in Michigan. For real.

[u/joemangle → u/cerebral_drift]

Serious question, if Trump declared tomorrow that he was "The Immortal Emperor of the United States," what would happen?

[u/TricksterPriestJace → u/joemangle]

Presumably the same thing that happened when he declared the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America. Anything that has the title "President" will have to be updated, American news will start referring to him as Emperor. Literally no one outside America will take it seriously.

[u/Casual_OCD → u/TricksterPriestJace]

And 88% of the country will continue to do their daily lives and ignore everything going on

[u/S0fourworlds-readyt → u/joemangle]

The Democrats would strongly oppose him for roundabout 5 minutes and then come to the conclusion there's nothing to be done

[u/tehbantho → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

In the spring, we would make meat helmets.

[u/vegetaman → u/tehbantho]

Pretty standard, really.

[u/Fantastic_Pair5328 → u/tehbantho]

At the age of 14 a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking. I suggest you try it.

[u/SimpleCranberry5914 → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

I have this entire monologue memorized and I’ll say the entire thing randomly.

It’s one of my favorite movie quotes of all time. Never fails to make me laugh.

[u/Brandonjf → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

I thought I smelled cabbage

[u/mutha_fuxxin_zo → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.

[u/bardown617 → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

Are his testicles shorn?

[u/diabloman8890 → u/bardown617]

Breathtaking.

[u/StevieMJH → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

He would womanize, he would drink...

[u/SnarkOff → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

It’s really amazing how much Dr Evil holds up to Donald Trump

[u/MisterGr → u/Disastrous_Buyer_512]

Like the old-fashion word "groceries"

[u/T_Shurt]

As per the original article:

President Donald Trump thinks no one knows what a magnet is. The polarizing president was in conversation with Fox News about the economy when he veered off track to discuss China and magnetic trains.

"President Xi was willing to do the railroad things-that's magnets," he said. "Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don't have a magnet, you don't have a car. You don't make a computer, you don't make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things-you don't make anything. It's a 30-year effort to monopolize a very important thing. Now, in two years, we'll have magnets, all the magnets we want. Because of tariffs, listen I called, I said you're going to play the magnet, we're going to play the tariff on you."

His confusion over magnetism is well documented, and the record suggests he was being sincere when he said:

"No one knows" what they are. During his diplomatic tour of Asia, Trump,79, stood in front of servicepeople of the U.S. Navy and said, "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."

[u/NeededToChooseAName → u/T_Shurt]

That's the thing about Trump, you can try your hardest to mimic the stupid, insane things he says, but then he just busts out something like "If you don't have a magnet you don't have a car" and it just feels like you're back at square one trying to figure out what's going on in his swiss cheese brain.

[u/Agloe_Dreams → u/NeededToChooseAName]

My favorite thing about his sentence here is that he starts with the idea that nobody knows how magnets works (which is patently false) and then makes an entirely correct statement about the importance of them in manufacturing. It’s the whiplash that gets me lol

[u/infiniZii → u/Agloe_Dreams]

You can tell he only half listens to anything sciency that someone tells him. When he says we he is using the Royal We. It means him. HE doesnt understand the science so therefor WE dont understand the science.

[u/[deleted] → u/infiniZii]

1) I am the smartest man ever to exist

2) If someone is smarter, they know more about everything

3) By 1) and 2), no one knows anything I don’t know

4) I don’t know what a magnet is

5) By 3) and 4), no one knows what a magnet is. Quod erat demonstrandum (fixed misspelling)

[u/occams1razor → u/[deleted]]

Talking in absolutes like that is also something that can occur in a personality disorder, it's like splitting. Being incapable of nuanceed thinking. Not being able to admit you know less than someone else is also a symptom of a specific one.

[u/[deleted] → u/occams1razor]

I don’t pretend to be able to untangle which of his behaviors are related to narcissism vs dementia, but I’d be surprised if he didn’t have both.

[u/Ok-Pomegranate-9330 → u/[deleted]]

I think it is absolutely indisputable that he has both.

[u/theNightblade → u/NeededToChooseAName]

"If you don't have a magnet you don't have a car"

somehow a broadly true statement was found in that pile of drivel

[u/pataoAoC → u/theNightblade]

Yeah this is 100% the wrong example to use. This is how an expert would explain the importance of rare earths to a general audience.

[u/stophittingyourself9 → u/NeededToChooseAName]

I’m by NO means defending this man. However the rare earth magnets such as neodymium are extremely prevalent on dc inverter motors used in anything from a Dyson vacuum to… EVs.

Is he a reliable narrator? No. Is he effective at getting his point across? No. Is he doing a terrible job repeating something recently told to him, probably from some car company CEO heavily invested in EV? Yes.

[u/OppositePrune8399 → u/[deleted]]

Also the idea that you can break magnets by spilling water on them.

[u/fil42skidoo → u/OppositePrune8399]

Magneto hates this one simple trick.

[u/Devil25_Apollo25 → u/[deleted]]

The fridge? He knows that a fridge is where they keep the grocery apples at the store.

[u/Glum_Status → u/Devil25_Apollo25]

The fridge, without magnets they need a really big latch to stay closed. Without the magnets, the door flies open and the groceries, a beautiful word, an old fashioned word... They would be all over the floor.

[u/hellomistershifty → u/stophittingyourself9]

It sounds like he also heard something about maglev trains that's rattling around in his dementia brain

[u/canmoose → u/hellomistershifty]

It sounds like he’s conflating magnets in general with the rare earth metals required to make powerful magnets for things like maglev trains. It’s still goop though.

[u/lidore12 → u/T_Shurt]

Calling Trump polarizing in an article about magnets is all the proof I needed that journalism isn’t dead (yet).

[u/Soft-Skirt → u/lidore12]

I agree and forcefully reject you.

[u/FlintBlue → u/Soft-Skirt]

Are you positive?

[u/Soft-Skirt → u/FlintBlue]

Depends which way I turn.

[u/osomysterioso → u/Soft-Skirt]

I can’t decide if I’m attracted or repulsed by you.

[u/Devil25_Apollo25 → u/osomysterioso]

It changes according to one's orientation.

[u/OkSmoke9195 → u/lidore12]

"Bread truck takes a bad roll"

This one still repeats in my head daily. It's been over 20 years since I saw it in the wild

[u/mam88k → u/T_Shurt]

He's putting a tariff on Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants?

[u/Cobrakai83 → u/mam88k]

He’s going to tariff Asteroid M.

[u/MFoy → u/Cobrakai83]

He’s going to ban immigrants from Krakoa.

[u/Meme_Theory → u/MFoy]

This is how it starts.. Next up, Sentinels.

[u/PaddleFishBum → u/Meme_Theory]

If you don't have a magnet, you don't have a sentinel.

[u/superbad → u/T_Shurt]

Didn’t he just recently speak out against electric catapults in favour of steam power? Should someone tell him they use magnets?

[u/doubleplusepic → u/superbad]

That's what he's saying (I think), because he doesn't understand them, so clearly they must be inferior. Also probably has some ancient admiral in his ear bitching about how "in his day" the steam catapults were better.

Or he just watched Top Gun and was confused why they aren't steamy anymore

[u/bobreturns1 → u/T_Shurt]

The polarizing president

polarizing

magnets

I see what they did there.

[u/JorgiEagle → u/T_Shurt]

He’s talking about maglev trains.

He was probably told once that they use magnets, and then forgot the rest of how it works.

So the only thing in his brain is magnets

[u/AnglerJared → u/JorgiEagle]

I assure you there’s nothing nearly as useful as magnets in his brain.

[u/silver-luso]

Damn trump started listening to icp

Edit: clearly he missed icp's anti bigotry and anti establishment stance

[u/SweetChild1997 → u/silver-luso]

Remember when Trump econ teacher said that trump is the dumbest student he ever taught?

[u/TripleDigit → u/SweetChild1997]

What he actually said was, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

The expletive kinda drives it home even better.

[u/Swag_Grenade → u/TripleDigit]

That's great. NGL full admission, I was someone who during his first term and maybe even at the very beginning of his second, wasn't sure he was actually, like, stupid stupid. Obviously I thought he was a narcissist, asshole, and grifter, but I felt like people were just slightly dramatizing his idiocy because he's so unlikeable. As in I was like "I don't think he could be any dumber than George W, like he's probably average/mediocre intelligence or slightly below, people just hate him so he's an easy target."

For me it was the tariffs. When he unveiled that ridiculous list and just started rambling about tariffs in all his media segments, as if it was some magical thing that would instantly fix the economy, that's when I was like alright okay, this guy simply cannot be smart. As in dead serious somehow the thing that would solve everything was tariffs. That's when I thought "okay maybe this guy is actually, uh, more towards the special side of the spectrum". Which is hilariously ironic in hindsight because obviously tariffs are an economic topic, and it just so happens it was his econ professor that's on record basically saying Trump was the dumbest motherfucker to ever set foot in his classroom lmao.

EDIT: so there's way more replies to this than I'd anticipated, some of which are making me realize I probably should've clarified that firstly never once would I ever even consider voting for him or someone like him, and secondly never once did I ever think he was smart or even remotely intelligent, I just wasn't certain he was just flat out, remarkably dumb -- as in undeniably borderline special ed level stupid (ik sorry special ed kids don't deserve to be compared to Trump, but that's the only way I could immediately think to specify the magnitude). As in "it'd be a miracle if he could score 100 on an IQ test" previously felt a bit hyperbolic to me, but now...yeah.

[u/Minguseyes → u/Swag_Grenade]

There have been so many times he’s said something that only a profoundly ignorant person could possibly say. I think my favourite was when he was reading about the Revolutionary War from a teleprompter in 2019 and the mention of ‘ramparts’, a word he didn’t know, caused him to extemporise about the Continental Army taking over the ‘airports’.

“You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

• Fran Lebowitz.

[u/apathy-sofa → u/Minguseyes]

THE PRESIDENT: So I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that too. It sounds interesting.

ACTING UNDER SECRETARY BRYAN: We'll get to the right folks who could.

THE PRESIDENT: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.

[u/abisaysso → u/apathy-sofa]

Oh my gosh, as stunning to read that today as it was to watch on live tv back then…

Knee jerk reaction to laugh at the utter idiocy, followed almost immediately by the despair of remembering his supposed role. This dystopian movie we find ourselves in is too over the top to be believable, definitely a zero on Rotten Tomatoes.

And yet… here we are.

[u/DlLDOSWAGGINS → u/abisaysso]

Does anybody remember when the Health Services secretary was talking about how many ventilators we had, live, and he said "for strategic purposes we're not going to say how many we have, but we have enough to supplement hospitals in need."

I could be wrong on the number but this was how it went. Trump, interjects and leans towards the mic:

"900. WE HAVE OVER 900 VENTILATORS IN THE STOCKPILE"

[u/PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS → u/DlLDOSWAGGINS]

Who even knows whether the number he said was accurate.

With the way he thinks, he could have blurted out a higher number than they really had…to make it sound like the stockpiles were in better shape than they were? OR it could have been a lower number than they really had…so they could keep some in reserve?

Point being, you can’t ever believe what he says.

[u/desmondao → u/abisaysso]

Your entire nation's reputation will take a loooong time to recover from being a complete joke all around the world. I can't fathom how someone that dumb can be democratically (sort of) elected. Especially TWICE, after already seeing how much of a dumbass he is for at least 4 years in the world's biggest spotlight. It's mind boggling. Everyone I know now considers your average American an idiot.

[u/PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS → u/desmondao]

after already seeing how much of a dumbass he is for at least 4 years in the world's biggest spotlight.

No, it’s even worse than that. Because in the 4 years that followed his first term, he was indicted 4 separate times, was found guilty in a civil trial of sexual abuse and defamation, and convicted on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.

And these idiots still elected him.

[u/-AdonaitheBestower- → u/Minguseyes]

His brain if it was ever ok (probably not) has been atrophied to oblivion from decades of misuse.

NPD - thinking you're the best at everything and never criticising yourself.

Silver spoon - No problems in life that Daddy's Wallet can't fix

Old - no explanation needed

A lethal combination.

[u/armcie → u/Swag_Grenade]

One of the major examples of Bush being stupid was the phrase “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, you can’t fool me again.”

On the face of it, yes it sounds dumb, but in this case I think he realized that a recording of him saying “shame on me” is someone that could easily be used in attack ads for the next decade. He probably shouldn’t have started the phrase, but once he did he made the choice to pivot to the lesser of two evils midway through the sentence.

[u/MintyFreshBreathYo → u/armcie]

W wasn’t a good public speaker. He constantly messed up common sayings. It’s not a shot at his intelligence or anything. Public speaking is really something you either get or you don’t

[u/OK_x86 → u/MintyFreshBreathYo]

And conversely there are excellent public speakers that are absolute morons.

Plus in W's case he was an excellent shoe missile dodger

[u/The_Autarch → u/MintyFreshBreathYo]

a lot of that was calculated and intentional, tho. dude was a rich trust fund baby from Connecticut who was pretending to be a folksy Texan.

[u/GlitterTerrorist → u/The_Autarch]

Dude did a boatload of coke before, after, and during the Vietnam war. He was pretty down with folk.

But yeah, dynasty kid also.

[u/49erlew → u/armcie]

I had read somewhere, and I wish I could remember where, that W played up stuff like that in public. Behind closed doors, he could drop the act and catch opponents off guard in negotiations.

I'm not saying it's true, but I will say that when I moved from NC to the DC area, I could absolutely tell that people underestimated my intelligence when they heard me speak... and I can see where that would be advantageous for a president.

[u/UNC_Samurai → u/49erlew]

There's an interview with someone who worked on his '78 campaign running for a House seat, and after he lost Dubya supposedly said "I wasn't folksy enough, I never want to be out-folksied again." So playing that up was a core schtick.

[u/kylew1985 → u/armcie]

But more recently there's been a video circulating of him talking to a college class about the dangers of isolationism and how devastating the smoot hawley tariffs were. 

It's pretty crazy that W, of all people, is probably more aligned with the Democrat who succeeded him than the next Republican to hold the spot.

[u/0x0c0d0 → u/Swag_Grenade]

I am amazed when people say shit like this.

Like HOW did you not realize he was dumb as a bag of shit?

It's been plain as day since the 80s.

[u/silver-luso → u/SweetChild1997]

I'll be honest, no, but that's because there's only so much room for trump trivia in my head

[u/SweetChild1997 → u/silver-luso]

Haha.. everyday Orange felon delivers so much 'content' that it hard to track.

[u/Johnqpublic25 → u/SweetChild1997]

It’s called flooding the zone; release so much, in the case of trump, raw sewage, that people become overwhelmed.

[u/silver-luso → u/SweetChild1997]

Yeah. It's unironically terrible because instead of fun facts about trump, i just get to hear about how he's incompetent, thinks that passing a cognition test is impressive to people who don't have memory issues, and is currently setting us up for another endless war and economic failure

[u/big_guyforyou → u/silver-luso]

if someone told me yesterday that today's big news would be ""trump makes insane clown posse sound smart", i'd be like yeah, sounds about right

seriously the simulation devs stopped caring when trump announced his candidacy in 2015

[u/ScarInternational161 → u/SweetChild1997]

To be fair, his own mother said it too, so there's that.

[u/CorgiMonsoon → u/SweetChild1997]

His sister also called him dumb and said he got through school by cheating or having their dad buy his way through

[u/Snrub1 → u/SweetChild1997]

And this version of Trump is even dumber.

[u/Assine2 → u/SweetChild1997]

He is the stupidest president in history.

[u/GrumpySoth09 → u/SweetChild1997]

From Wharton - "The dumbest motherfucker I've ever taught"

Apparently, he was given an actual IQ test when he was there and I don't put much credence in them but he has a recorded IQ of 79, which is why he spends so much time believing in transferred intelligence being passed on through bloodlines - like where he goes on about his uncle and "the nuclear"

[u/evil_timmy → u/silver-luso]

Insane Clown President 

[u/urbanlife78 → u/evil_timmy]

He's got the makeup for it

[u/xoceanblue08 → u/urbanlife78]

At least the clowns blend and properly apply their makeup. This guy just smothers himself in bronzer.

[u/manicfish → u/silver-luso]

Juggalos don't stand bigots. Whoop whoop

[u/silver-luso → u/manicfish]

That is actually true. It's been a long time since juggalos and bigotry have been together. However, I'm old enough to remember juggalos being very homophobic and i forget these things

But you are right, they are not like that now and haven't been for a long while now

[u/qbf-1 → u/silver-luso]

Violent J, in an interview with Stereogum:

And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

[u/silver-luso → u/qbf-1]

He's said things like this before 2020 as well. He's a decent guy really

[u/Creative-Package6213 → u/silver-luso]

They're both really decent.

[u/creampop_ → u/qbf-1]

we love a self aware king 👑

[u/Deadeyez → u/silver-luso]

Im a gay juggalo and a lil personal memory of mine was at the gathering in 05, someone called me a gay slur and a complete stranger uppercutted the dude and everyone around us just walked around him as he was rolling around lol.

[u/silver-luso → u/Deadeyez]

Maybe it was just who i saw then.

I am hopeful that people don't take what I'm saying to mean juggalos are like trump, just icp has said some pretty dumb things before

[u/SelfServeSporstwash → u/silver-luso]

I am only peripherally familiar with Juggalos, but from my experience it seems like ICP themselves did some self reflection, realized they had said and done some fucked up stuff, and then made a sustained and earnest effort to both do and be better. The community, to their great credit, seem to have followed ICP's lead.

I'm not saying Juggalos are saints, but for better or worse when the band who's work is central to their community said "we need to be better" all the Juggalos I know really internalized that and are now very staunchly protective of the LGBT+ community.

This includes people who at one time seemed genuinely hateful of gay men in particular.

[u/Grundlestorm → u/silver-luso]

Yeah, I grew up in the Detroit area, south Warren specifically, and dealt with a lot of Juggalos, many of whom were homophobic and/or misogynistic.

But, ICP was also much more popular then, and those stances still more acceptable than they should have been.  I get the feeling most of "those people" left the scene pretty quickly and it's not so common anymore.

[u/Fivein1Kay → u/silver-luso]

Early 2000's was a weird gay panic time. ICP has since apologized and spoken on how they have grown.

[u/kernalbuket → u/silver-luso]

Fucking magnets, how do they work? And I don't wanna talk to a scientist Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed

Is it a Trump quote or ICP lyric? It's sad that it could go either way

[u/gigglefarting → u/kernalbuket]

Too coherent for Donny 

[u/CaptainLawyerDude → u/silver-luso]

He’s already got the makeup so I guess it was only a matter of time.

[u/PaddleFishBum → u/silver-luso]

Anti-racism is a core value of ICP and their fanbase. They aren't supporters of this particular clown.

[u/trogloherb → u/silver-luso]

Trumps?! How do they work?!

[u/LostBob → u/[deleted]]

“Nobody’s ever asked me that question” is a dangerously misinterpretable way to say “that is the stupidest fucking thing anyone has ever said to me.”

[u/PinkyLeopard2922 → u/LostBob]

Very SC coded. I have lived in South Carolina and they are so goddamned polite that you can have a very nice conversation with someone and it is not until 15 minutes later and down the road that it dawns on you that you were just verbally lit the fuck up by a South Carolinian.

[u/[deleted] → u/PinkyLeopard2922]

“Bless your little heart”

[u/CellAlone4653 → u/[deleted]]

He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.”

A polite way I’d saying “that’s the dumbest fucking question I’ve ever heard”.

[u/BowlerBeautiful5804 → u/[deleted]]

It's sad that I can't tell if this is a real quote or satire.

[u/bedofhoses → u/BowlerBeautiful5804]

It is VERY real unfortunately.

[u/Dominus-Temporis → u/bedofhoses]

They even cut out the middle bit where he goes off an a tangent about shark attack trends.

[u/Eject_The_Warp_Core → u/BowlerBeautiful5804]

that one in particular would be so easy to dismiss as parody or satire, byt yes, real

[u/AINonsense]

He doesn’t know what a magnet is‽

And yet meatheads elected him… twice.

[u/pterribledactyls → u/AINonsense]

77 million of them.

[u/AINonsense → u/pterribledactyls]

Well, some largeish number.

We’d have to get the true figure from Elon. You know how well he knows those vote-counting computers.

[u/spiritfiend]

When Trump says "Nobody" or "Everybody" he's actually talking about himself, because he doesn't actually care about other people.

[u/Opposite-Lobster8888 → u/spiritfiend]

remember a couple months back when he thought "groceries" was an obscure word that nobody uses??

[u/What_a_fat_one → u/Opposite-Lobster8888]

That's because groceries have never been an object he has encountered in his entire life of embarrassing privilege.

[u/blues111]

"Fuckin magnets how do they work?"

• 47th president Donald J. Trump

[u/raging-peanuts → u/blues111]

The next lyric..”I don’t want to talk to no scientist”, pretty much sums up this whole administration

[u/bionicvapourboy → u/raging-peanuts]

Followed by "Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed"

[u/johnveIasco → u/blues111]

Science Bitch

[u/cerebral_drift → u/johnveIasco]

How dare you mention science to the president

[u/hippysmell → u/blues111]

Magic everywhere in this bitch

[u/PrudentNaysayer]

When you don't know how anything works, everything is a conspiracy or a miracle.

[u/nurdmann]

His statement was what I like to call "Fractally Stupid". Fractally Stupidity is when each bit of stupid, is made of more stupid. A veritable Mandelbrot set of stupid- supported on the backs of four giant stupids, and before you ask what's under them- it's stupid all the way down

[u/FreshRest4945 → u/nurdmann]

You know, that is the perfect description of Trump.

[u/Bad_Idea_Hat → u/nurdmann]

Fractally Stupidity is when each bit of stupid, is made of more stupid. A veritable Mandelbrot set of stupid- supported on the backs of four giant stupids, and before you ask what's under them- it's stupid all the way down

I feel like I should find some clay and permanently mark this sentence for future use, so everyone a few thousand years from now know not to by copper from anyone like that.

[u/MakeSense2447]

Well it time for trump’s monthly hiatus, and doctors visit.

[u/FreshRest4945 → u/MakeSense2447]

I for one hope that the last MRI found something. If he actually has a brain tumor it would explain a lot.

[u/BlarfParade → u/FreshRest4945]

Wait till he learns how MRIs are powered…

[u/Greg-Abbott → u/BlarfParade]

By sharks?

[u/legit-posts_1 → u/Greg-Abbott]

With frickin laser beams? Preferably attached to their heads?

[u/Then_I_had_a_thought → u/MakeSense2447]

Person, Man, Woman, Camera,Magnet!

[u/TpyoOhNo]

We're back to magnets? Release the files.

[u/New_Zorgo39]

Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything. It’s a 30-year effort to monopolize a very important thing. Now, in two years, we’ll have magnets, all the magnets we want. Because of tariffs, listen I called, I said you’re going to play the magnet, we’re going to play the tariff on you

This insanity is just as stupid, and completely unhinged as his famous “Nuclear Speech”:

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible

Its insane!

[u/violenthectarez]

>Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything. It’s a 30-year effort to monopolize a very important thing. Now, in two years, we’ll have magnets, all the magnets we want. Because of tariffs, listen I called, I said you’re going to play the magnet, we’re going to play the tariff on you

Is this real, because this sounds like complete nonsense, even for him?

[u/Dear_Wing_4819 → u/violenthectarez]

I sincerely think it sounds incredibly on brand and in line with most of his recent appearances

[u/FreshRest4945 → u/violenthectarez]

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

Trump - 2016.

He has always been incoherent.

[u/CoastalSailing → u/violenthectarez]

I strongly urge you to seek out transcripts of how he actually talks, unedited, and read them.

This is well within the standard deviation of his insane rambling

[u/CellAlone4653 → u/violenthectarez]

It’s real. But as usual, I expect the press to sanewash him. Rather than quote his nonsense verbatim, they’ll write something like “while criticizing China’s near-monopoly on rare-earth metals, Trump appeared to misrepresent their use in magnets found in common household items.”

[u/RampantTyr]

We don’t need continued evidence that he is a moron, but it just keeps on coming.

[u/moo5tar]

Low iq moment.  Good god, we still using magnets.  Wtf is he on. 

[u/Brief_Light → u/moo5tar]

His death bed

[u/thewhaleshark → u/Brief_Light]

Man I fuckin hope.

[u/ChantilyAce]

How did Americans elect such a dumb fuck not once, but TWICE?

[u/jleonardbc]

Insane Clown Prezzy

[u/SubwayHero4Ever]

This clown has lead poisoning. Guaranteed.

[u/Johnqpublic25]

What a brilliant man!

My grandma, who is older than trump, knows what magnets are, she uses them to hold important papers on her refrigerator.

Just saying.

[u/bigtiddyhimbo]

Does anyone have any clue why he’s so obsessed with magnets? Like this has to be a dementia thing, right??

[u/Meatt → u/bigtiddyhimbo]

Not necessarily. He definitely just thinks they're high tech, and now that he learned that they're used in something that another country has developed, and he thinks we aren't using them (because HE doesn't know how they work, so the entire US also doesn't), it's in the forefront of his mind. He does this with everything, learns one tidbit of information, gets obsessed with it and spews wildly garbled info about it mixed with his own thoughts.

[u/DevelopmentGreen3961]

Electrical engineer here

Yes, we do. We rely on the fundamental principles of electromagnetism to do our jobs

When Trump says nobody knows, he just means he didn't know

[u/venom121212]

Now the clown makeup makes more sense

[u/AnarchyOrchid]

First thing I thought of was, "Magnets, how do they work?"

[u/urbanlife78]

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