A Slurring Trump Gets Stuck on 'Magnets' in Deranged Rant
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Trump Gets Stuck on �Magnets� in Deranged Rant
Donald Trump claimed Monday that the use of magnets was part of a plot
begun by the Chinese two decades ago.
During an Oval Office meeting Monday with South Korean President Lee Jae
Myung, the president said he may impose a steep tariff if China didn�t give
the U.S. magnets.
�They have to give us magnets. If they don�t give us magnets, then we have
to charge them 200 percent tariff for something, you know?� said Trump, who recently delayed putting tariffs on Chinese goods until November.
In response to U.S. tariffs, China has prevented the exportation of some magnets and rare earth minerals.
�You know, China intelligently went and they sort of took a monopoly of the world�s magnets, and nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody
20 years ago, �Let�s all do magnets,�� Trump went on. �There were many
other ways that the world could have gone.�
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Trump mentioned the North Korean dictator again during a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in the Oval Office on Monday. Brian Snyder/REUTERS
The president estimated that it would take �probably a year� to acquire
them.
The U.S., he said, will be �heavy into the world of magnets now�only from a national security standpoint.�
Trump�s mention of magnets came amid a discussion on Boeing aircraft.
�I sent them all of the parts so their planes can fly,� Trump said of
China. �200 of their planes were unable to fly because we were not giving
them Boeing parts purposely because they weren�t giving us magnets.�
�But we have a much more powerful thing, and that�s tariffs,� he said,
adding: �We�re going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of time.�
The White House didn�t immediately respond to request for comment.
Trump has portrayed that as a positive development, even if his
understanding of the technology might be lacking. Last January, he
suggested at a campaign stop that magnets don�t work underwater. They do.
He also criticized them being used as part of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System earlier this year.
�And they have all magnetic elevators to lift up 25 planes at a time, 20
planes at a time. And instead of using hydraulic, like on tractors that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything, they use
magnets,� he said in February.
�It�s a new theory: Magnets are going to lift the planes up. And it doesn�t work. And they had billions and billions of dollars of cost overruns,�
Trump claimed, even there�s no proof that those magnets don�t work.
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