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Trump Gets Stuck on aMagnetsA 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 didnAt give the U.S. magnets.

oThey have to give us magnets. If they donAt give us magnets, then we have
to charge them 200 percent tariff for something, you know?o 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.

oYou know, China intelligently went and they sort of took a monopoly of the worldAs magnets, and nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody
20 years ago, aLetAs all do magnets,Ao Trump went on. oThere were many
other ways that the world could have gone.o
Trump
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 oprobably a yearo to acquire
them.

The U.S., he said, will be oheavy into the world of magnets nowuonly from a national security standpoint.o

TrumpAs mention of magnets came amid a discussion on Boeing aircraft.

oI sent them all of the parts so their planes can fly,o Trump said of
China. o200 of their planes were unable to fly because we were not giving
them Boeing parts purposely because they werenAt giving us magnets.o

oBut we have a much more powerful thing, and thatAs tariffs,o he said,
adding: oWeAre going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of time.o

The White House didnAt 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 donAt work underwater. They do.

He also criticized them being used as part of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System earlier this year.

oAnd 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,o he said in February.

oItAs a new theory: Magnets are going to lift the planes up. And it doesnAt work. And they had billions and billions of dollars of cost overruns,o
Trump claimed, even thereAs no proof that those magnets donAt work.
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