[FRIAM] Trump's expertise on magnets

[Barry MacKichan]

I saw a snippet of that talk. He expanded on the Big Lie by claiming he 
won 50 states in 2020.

![](cid:4DD60E61-21E5-4202-8C28-FB663FAD1101 at mackichan.com 
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—Barry

On 6 Jan 2024, at 15:23, Tom Johnson wrote:

> During a "Commit to Caucus" rally at the North Iowa Events Center in 
> Mason
> City, Iowa on Friday, Donald Trump
> <https://www.yahoo.com/news/enough-big-lie-104501475.html> still had a
> great deal of energy left after spending most of the afternoon railing
> against E. Jean Carroll in dozens of messages posted to Truth Social
> <https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111700883606589039> . In one 
> such
> post, the former president writes, "Except for a Fraudulent Case 
> against
> me, I had no idea who E. Jean Carroll was. She called her African 
> American
> Husband an “ape,” and named her Cat “Vagina." These exact words 
> were then
> re-posted in a steady stream along with a cherry-picked assortment of
> screengrabs from E. Jean Carroll's social media archive.
>
> Pausing that busy work to take the stage in Iowa, Trump then regaled
> attendees with a fresh take on how magnets work, while also
> finding occasion to loop in John Deere.
>
> On the subject of magnetic elevators, Trump said, "Think of it, 
> magnets.
> Now 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. 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." After a bit more along these same lines, 
> Trump did
> a little dance
> <https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1743475842011869690?s=20> and 
> left the
> stage.
>
> -- 
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