Donald Trump says that “no one knows what magnets are” during a strange Oval Office press conference. During the swearing in of a new ambassador to India on Monday (10 November), the President launched into a rant about China, whilst discussing their recent agreement to start easing rare earth export rules. “China was going to hit us with rare-earth. Now, everybody says, ‘Oh, what does that mean?’ Magnets. If China refused to give magnets, because they have a monopoly on magnets… there wouldn’t be a car made in the entire world.” He then claimed that “nobody knows what magnets are”, before going on to praise the “great deal” the two nations made in October. Whilst the talks did not end in a formal agreement, Mr Trump agreed to reduce tariffs on some Chinese goods entering the US, whilst Beijing agreed to suspend export control measures it had placed on rare earths.

The Republican party truly is the Insane Clown Posse.

Magnets, how do they work -Republicans.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    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…