The Emperor’s New Magnets Trump’s wet physics and the theater of power Aboard the USS George Washington this week, Donald Trump—rambling incoherently—revived a claim he first made at an Iowa rally in January 2024: that water disables magnets. “Give me a glass of water,” he said then, “drop it on the magnets—that’s the end of the magnets.” Now, he’s using that same myth to argue that U.S. aircraft carriers should abandon electromagnetic catapults and elevators in favor of steam and hydraulics. Never mind that the Navy’s Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) operates flawlessly in rain, salt spray, and full oceanic conditions. Never mind , as almost any 5 year old could tell you , that magnets DO NOT stop working when wet —a fact confirmed by centuries of physics, the fact that compasses ever existed and , well, every refrigerator on Earth. This isn’t a gaffe, if it is its a medically serious one. Desi Lydic eviscerates Trump’s “wet...
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