PRAGMATIC ISSUES

The President Who Thinks Americans Do Not Know What Magnets Are

Yet Falls In Love With Every Strongman On Earth Including New York’s New Governor

By Solin for PragmaticIssues.com

The Setup

America can put robots on Mars. America can build skyscrapers in months. America can run an entire nation off five minutes of engineering. Yet somehow the president believes Americans do not know what magnets are. Magnets. Those tiny everyday objects holding shopping lists on refrigerators across the country. The force inside speakers phones turbines hard drives and nuclear weapons made by every nation on earth that he cannot stop flirting with.

Most kindergarteners understand magnets. But the president insists Americans do not. Meanwhile every dictator and authoritarian regime he fawns over absolutely does. He sees their grasp of basic physics as proof of greatness. He treats authoritarianism as a dating pool and world leaders as potential soulmates.

This is not an administration. It is a global love triangle.

Russia

When he looks at Vladimir Putin you can practically hear romantic music in the background. Russia relies on magnets for their warheads their submarines their missiles and their intelligence equipment. The president believes Americans cannot grasp magnets but Putin can. And that alone seems to be enough for him.

North Korea

Kim Jong Un fires a missile and the president treats it like a love letter. North Korea uses magnets to enrich uranium. Their entire nuclear process involves them. Kim understands magnets. The president is enchanted.

China

China builds surveillance networks and hypersonic missiles and most of the electronics in American homes. They all rely on magnets. China also controls the rare earth supply that makes magnets possible. The president looks at Xi Jinping like a man discovering his destiny.

Iran

Iran’s nuclear centrifuges rely on high strength magnets. The president publicly condemns them then privately softens his tone. It is emotional whiplash disguised as foreign policy.

Saudi Arabia

He sees the crown prince and melts like a teenager who just discovered romance. They use magnets in advanced weaponry and energy systems. Somehow this impresses him more than American innovation.

Turkey Hungary and every other strongman fantasy

Pick a country where democracy is struggling. The president has admired its leader. These men understand magnets. Americans apparently do not. The equation is disturbing but predictable.

And now the new governor of New York

The entrance of New York’s new governor created a moment so uncomfortable that even authoritarian regimes should feel threatened. The president looked at him with breathless admiration. It was longing. It was desire. It was the expression of a man who believes he has found his long lost soulmate.

He stared at the governor like a lonely villain in a dramatic romance film who finally found his equal. The governor probably wondered if he should step back or call security. Because the president looked at him with the same reverence he shows for Putin Kim and every other strongman he wants to impress.

And in the president’s mind this governor absolutely knows magnets. He must. He is flawless in the president’s eyes. Americans do not know magnets he claims. But this governor does. The logic is nonsense yet perfectly consistent with his worldview.

The magnetic truth

Magnets reveal what you are drawn to. They pull toward things with the right charge. And this president is drawn to the wrong people every single time. He is pulled toward authoritarian power. He is pulled toward strongmen. He is pulled toward anyone who mirrors his fantasy of dominance.

Americans know magnets. Americans know science. Americans know when a leader is confused frightened resentful or simply dazzled by the very people who want to undermine our country. The only person here who does not understand magnets is the one lecturing the nation about them.

Magnets do not lie. They pull toward the truth. And the truth is that this president is attracted to every anti democratic force on the planet including the governor of New York who had the misfortune of walking into his line of sight.