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We'll say it yet again: This isn't an act, folks. He really is this stupid.
I...I kind of wonder if he means something like the iron dome that Israel has. I'm trying to translate his senile brain into something that is tangible.
But then again.. we're talking about a man who said a nuke could get rid of a hurricane.
Sigh
That's exactly what he's talking about. The full context is him talking about MIT graduates shooting down an incoming missile - kindergarten sound effects and all.
The way people here are misinterpreting it as him wanting a physical dome just makes us look like fools in addition to him.
What he's actually saying is dumb enough. Turning a scarecrow into a straw man isn't helpful.
I don't know man, he's shown time and again that he has some real difficulties truly understanding certain concepts.
A part of me feels like he genuinely believes there's some sort of physical dome involved in this particular type of air defense system.
I always remember when Trump gave a speech with some Coast Guard members. Trump started talking about invisible planes. Which I believe Trump was talking about stealth planes.
So people are fools for not interpreting the incoherent ramblings of the mango shitgibbon? If a US presidential candidate is incapable of basic communication, and is ahead in the polls, lord help the world.
We're doomed.
That’s the thing I like about Trump. He always says exactly what he means.
If only we could figure out what he’s saying…
Read the comments about his thoughts on magnets elsewhere in this thread and realize he means exactly what he says, no translation required.
FTA:
Trump criticized sending "billions of dollars out of the countries so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves."
"We’re going to have the greatest dome ever," he continued.
If you follow the senile logic, a nuke very well may end a hurricane. That much overpressure and heat added to the environment is going to affect it - and the living things on the only habitable biome…
No, they're too weak. Trump wasn't the only person with that idea, so NHS has had a discussion of the math up for years: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd-faq/#Stop
The tl;Dr is that hurricanes have much more power tied up into them than currently used nukes release, by a tremendous amount. Quoting:
TIL 👍
Don't forget the part about curing covid-19 with bleach.
"We'll make ours out of glass, not iron, so the sun can shine through."
He can’t build it with magnets either as it would stop working after rain
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ridiculed-bizarre-magnet-remarks-iowa-rally-1858420