WHOA! That was more than just “wandering off” – that was a full-on zombie walk! 
After he’s six feet under?
I originally saw that on Facebook. While digging around for just the clip (instead of the comedy monologue) on Youtube, I couldn’t find anything else with the same camera angle. For instance, in this one you couldn’t see the Prime Minister’s look of suprise and can’t even tell that Trump went rambling.
It’s a good thing those people were lining the room, he may have tried walking through a window.
Pretty soon his entourage is gonna have to start telling him when to stop walking like he’s Forrest Gump on a football field.
He has less idea of how they work than even the Insane Clown Posse does.
Oooh, ooh! I know this one!
The answer:
Nothing.
One of the many many problems with trump is that he talks and thinks like a toddler*. He has heard something, or seen it on TV, (not read about, of course) and he likes it and tries to repeat the gist of what he thinks he understood. And often there is a minuscule grain of truth buried beneath layer upon layer of hyperbole, bad faith, sadism and creepiness. Same with the magnets.
Yes, we must admit it: he is right. Partly. The irrelevant part, but still. Because when he talks about magnets, he means electromagnets. Those are the ones used in aircraft carriers, both as catapults and as lifts. And of course it you put the electro part of an electromagnet in contact with water, particularly salty water, it might short circuit. That is the reason the electro parts of the electromagnet are insulated. Engineers are good at insulating, they have been doing it for years. But it is true that in case an electromagnet got wet in the wrong part it would short circuit and maybe start an electrolytic reaction, separating the Na and the Cl from the salty bit of sea water or something like that, perhaps releasing even poisonous gas. That would be bad.
It is very unlikely to happen, assuming the engineers work well and the construction and the maintenance are correctly done. That can be ensured if you don’t put MAGA corrupt fools in charge. OK, that is as of today a foolish assumption, but theoretically in the realm of the possible.
I have no idea why he has this particular peeve with magnets. Steam can be very dangerous too, and has many drawbacks (slower to reload, can explode, steam can cut you in half when there is the wrong kind of leak, and so on and so forth). Known risks, manageable. It’s just that electromagnets have many advantages in comparison. They don’t even obstruct the view to nowhere from his golf club. Must be something personal. Probably he misunderstood someone he did not like anyway. And now, in his demented dopey dotard days, he does not remember why he hates magnets, but that he does hate them, that he remembers. He always remembers grudges, it’s the only thing that fills his head. I think he likes it that way.
And I think we must be ready for some MAGA brownnosing spitlicker to defend his obsession. To refute as it deserves, we should know where this comes from, which part of it is right (the irrelevant part) and which part of it is wrong (all the other parts).
And then we can laugh at him. Again. But be prepared for some MAGA asshole to point out how dangerous electromagnets are, how expensive their development has been, and how outrageous it is that he did not get his due cut from those expenses.
And then we can explain to them that the steam in the aircraft carriers is not generated with coal. I wouldn’t be surprised if he thought that. Because, it’s like in the western movies, have you seen those trains? Beautiful trails off, riding into the sunset, shooting buffalo and indians and robbers from the train like a real man…
*Among the many other problems he has he is an envious, faithless, bad tempered, ignorant, humorless, entitled, impulsive, corrupt, superficial, cheating asshole that knows no friendship or loyalty. And he cannot dance.
And his obsession with them is more mystifying than Charlie Kelly’s.
I know he was against magnets on Aircraft Carriers some years ago. He just prefers steam. Now he’s going to write an Executive Order saying steam, not magnets. Not sure if he’s going to call for a retrofit. How do these EO’s work? If I’m the designer of Aircraft Carriers, am I supposed to subscribe to the WH’s daily updates on EO’s to tell me what to do?
The thing with magnets and water is new to me, yet he’s been talking about the dangers of mixing them for at least a year. I cannot figure out where that notion comes from. If it was Mentos and Coke - I could get that.
One thing I know is if you put a few rare earth magnets in a glass and drink it, their mutual attraction could become a problem in your small intestines if one gets further along and attracts one in an adjacent intestine.
The earth is a big magnet and has flipped poles N-S several times. Indeed, “Some say” that could happen again soon. Please, Sir, pass an EO forbidding the earth from doing this! Imagine the magnets and the oceans.
President Donald Trump said at an Iowa rally in January 2024: “Think of it, magnets. Now 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. Why didn’t they use John Deere? Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere.”
Rear Admiral Patrick J. Hannifin defended EMALS to Trump in 2018, saying: “The electromagnetic catapults they’re running there [on the Ford] offer some great benefits. Obviously, any new piece, you’ve got to work through the bugs, but they offer some benefits, not only to stress and strain on the aircraft to extend service life.”
From Trump promises executive order to revert Navy to steam power - Newsweek
They don’t even have to be powerful rare earth magnets to cause trouble, but it helps if you’re trying to out-dumb the clusterfucker:
It’s that or looking at the sun without protection during an eclipse. Who earns the top stoopid?
Didn’t Trump complain about how a certain aircraft carrier looked, and suggested that the island would look better in a different position. (Never mind that that would interfere with operations.)
All I know is if you take a glass of water and smash rare earth magnets, they reassemble themselves, just like they do in Terminator Two. Do you like Terminator? I like Terminator.
Presumably the hospital kept the magnets - no choice as it’s impossible to move them as they’ll keep coming right back. Still operating since China made them.
If the kid hasn’t done it again, he is the smarter one.
He also complained about how stealth aircraft looks. He knows a lot about so many things, I am impressed. I don’t remember whether he suggested to gold plate them.
I like Terminator too. One and Two, but no further.
LOL. In his recent speech about magnets to, I believe Navy Sailors in Korea (? Or Asia), he ran a poll. “Who likes magnets?” (crowd murmur) “Who likes Steam?” (a few cheers) and then he said “You’re all such good looking people. I don’t like good looking people.” - that bit might have been in the Late Show clip above.
No idea where the John Deere non-sequitur came from, as apparently they had not come.
And I reckon it’s Terminator Two when we see the evil terminator basically reassemble from all blown-up bits. Sorta like magic mercury + rare earth magnets.
And lastly, the earth goes through “Magnetic Reversals” on average every 450,000 years and it’s been over 700,000 years since the last one. I’m pretty sure these events cannot be predicted and it seems the time it takes goes from quick (seconds to months) to long (many years) yet they would cause a lot of havoc. We can deal with the slow and generally predictable moving geomagnetic north as it stays generally north geographically.
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In the 29 days that the government has been closed, President Donald Trump has not traveled to Capitol Hill to jump-start negotiations, brought congressional leaders to the White House to broker a deal, or given a speech to the American public about the crisis.
He’s done a lot else in October: traveled out of the country twice; defended the demolition of the East Wing to make room for a giant ballroom; asked for (and, in several cases, received) prosecutions of his political enemies and granted clemency to allies; demanded a $230 million payment to himself from the Justice Department; and authorized numerous strikes on alleged drug boats. Trump has also posted AI-generated videos of himself dressed like a king, using a fighter jet to drop excrement on protesters, or, parodying Blue Öyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” playing cowbell as his budget director (dressed as the Grim Reaper) seeks to traumatize the federal workforce.
But when it comes to the government shutdown, Trump barely seems to be paying attention. Some of this aloofness is by design, the president’s aides told us, describing a month-long strategy of putting the onus for reopening the government on Democrats. It’s a departure from how Trump handled a shutdown during his first term, when, over the course of 35 days, he employed tactics that are a lot more standard for a president: huddling with lawmakers, empathizing with furloughed workers, and addressing the American public.
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Yeah, but that was presidentin’ and it was, like, work [“work!” 
(channeling Maynard G. Krebs)]. Breaking things and running all over the world is so much more fun.
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Trump is “the leader of the band,” Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia told reporters recently. “So at some point in time, the leader of the band is going to step up and guide us.”
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Or not.
Had you posted that a month ago, even without the WoM (war on magnets) and his zombie walkabout with the Japanese PM, his Shit Bombing video, I’d have said, “That prediction is a bit far-fetched.”
And we haven’t seen him with Xi tomorrow yet.
Senator Justice, if that’s your real name, I am sorry that you asked the world’s most renowned betrayer to be the leader of your band. You have fucked yourself.
From wiki:
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Justice and his family’s businesses received between $11 million and $24 million in aid through the Paycheck Protection Program.[26] His luxury resort, the Greenbrier Hotel Corporation, received a loan of between $5 million and $10 million. The company did not promise to retain any jobs in exchange for the loan, which the Greenbrier would have to repay if it did not use at least 60% of the funds for payroll
Even though he’s been a Democrat, Independent these check out as good Repub creds.
He switched as MAGA promised glory.
The NDAA was going to be passed. What did he do?
I feel like Trump missed a (faux) golden opportunity to thoroughly debunk the use of magnets in the setting of transportation … particularly in front of the Japanese:
“I can’t make it to work today, Boss. It’s drizzling out, and – well – you know those Maglev trains when it’s anything more than humid…”
Weather: In theory, maglev trains should be unaffected by snow, ice, severe cold, rain, or high winds. However, as of yet no maglev system has been installed in a location with such a harsh climate.
As a side note, the EDS version of the Maglev trains relies on something called “repulsive force.” If there’s anything in the world that I would impute a fundamental level of knowledge to Trump on … this would be it.
And yet…
Also … it’s a damned good thing that navies tend to be extremely risk averse:
Thus the “lev”. If the opposite is “attractive force” I hope the conductor doesn’t have a switch to go to it.
Does Trump know the nuclear fleet uses no oil or coal?