During a rally in South Carolina, Donald Trump confidently declared that “nobody knows what magnets are.” The clip quickly turned into the internet’s new favorite fever dream.
“Nobody knows what magnets are,” he repeated — a claim that, to the rest of us, sounded like kindergarten science class had been outlawed overnight.
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People were fast to respond: memes, threads, explainer videos, and more than a few people trying to explain what magnets actually do.
There was also an older clip that resurfaced — the time he mentioned magnet-powered solutions years earlier — which only made the new clip more surreal.
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The reaction poured in: people posted breakdowns, comic diagrams, and meme after meme. The clip lives on as a new entry in the ongoing catalogue of “things that need no explanation but do” — because someone famous said it aloud.