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    “You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets, I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Trump said.

    “So, you know, the elevators come up in the new carriers—I think I’m going to change it, by the way—they have magnets. Every tractor has hydraulic, every excavator, every excavating machine of any kind has hydraulic. But somebody decided to use magnets.”

    The 79-year-old president then stumbled over his words and failed to complete a coherent sentence before moving on and asking the watching troops whether they preferred hydraulics or magnets.

    Trump then called out to a “top-ranking general” in the crowd for his opinion before continuing his tirade against the 2,000-year-old technology.

    b/w

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      The 79-year-old president then stumbled over his words and failed to complete a coherent sentence

      Has he ever been able to complete a coherent sentence?

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        About 15 years ago, yes. There were a few videos of him talking borderline eloquently about political issues, but then again back then he was supporting the Democrats.

        I’m more and more suspecting that like Fetterman, he had a stroke too that put him down this path.

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          Oh, he’s definitely been having mini strokes, for years. That or the adderal induced lack of sleep is creating psychosis in him.

          Or, and this is most likely, he’s just following his own father into the maw of dementia - and that is his personal terror, if the history about his family that I’ve read, is correct.

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            Or, and this is most likely, he’s just following his own father into the maw of dementia

            Father, grandfather, and sister.

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      He’s said some incredibly stupid things, but this is next level.

      The hamster powering his brain is clearly just a rotting pile of sludge now. How can anyone look at this masterclass in utter ignorance and see anything other than a senile old fool who should be in a nursing home for his own protection?

      Nearly 80% of republicans think this is okay? What wouldn’t they think is okay from him? It seems they’d be fine with his actual corpse being wheeled round on a trolley by Vance & co. Astounding.

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        I had to double check to make sure I wasn’t reading The Onion. These word salads are literally on the level of a parody of the orange turdsack.

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      I think I’m going to change it, by the way

      If only he really did try to do it personally. Physics can be one heck of a teaching experience.