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?
Former president repeated pushes again his baseless complaints of a 'rigged' 2020 election in Mason City, Iowa.
"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.". »