Social media users can't stop scratching their heads after watching former President Donald Trump insist at an Iowa rally that dropping magnets in water causes them to stop working.
"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," Trump declared from the podium in Mason City Friday night.
He was criticizing a decision by the Navy to use giant magnets to lift elevators by plane onto an aircraft carrier (floating on the water) — instead of using equipment from Midwestern company John Deere.
"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," Trump gushed.
Former president repeated pushes again his baseless complaints of a 'rigged' 2020 election in Mason City, Iowa.
Magnets do work underwater. Now social media wags are stuck on a new magnetic political debate.
"Um, this is awkward," Democratic research group American Bridge 21st Century wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "Trump doesn't know that magnets work underwater."
"You know i think this is going to make it hard for them to argue Biden is mentally unfit," social media influencer Pedro Gonzalez, who back Ron DeSantis, posted.
"It feels like this is the point where @BillNye [the science guy] has some narration to do," former federal prosecutor Joyce Alene posted, referring to the well-known American mechanical engineer known for making pop culture videos to teach about science.