I’m ready for Trump to inform us that watches are only a confidence trick invented by the Swiss.
Throughout a Monday Oval Workplace assembly with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump mirrored on his relationship with China.
“They’ve to provide us magnets, if they do not give us magnets, after which we’ve got to cost them 200 % tariff for one thing, you understand,” the president stated. “You already know, China intelligently went and so they kind of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets, and no one wanted magnets till they satisfied all people 20 years in the past, let’s all do magnets.”
“There have been many different ways in which the world may have gone.”
Trump promised that the U.S. could be “heavy into the world of magnets” inside the following 12 months.
Round 600 BCE, the Greek thinker Thales of Miletus noticed that lodestones (pure magnets) attracted iron filings. Magnets have been additionally in use, across the identical time in China, so maybe that’s what he means — however he is just a few thousand years off.
Beforehand:
• Samuel L Jackson presents a counterpoint to Trump’s stand on wind farms
• Trump’s regarding incoherent blather
• Trump’s incoherent babble will definitely reassure ‘Our nice Farmers’
