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 US aircraft carriers.
The four-times-indicted former president polarised 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: