trump made a conference call today to service members deployed overseas and gave a rambling rant about the Mexican border, comparing migrants to the Taliban, trashing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and made a bizarre recommendation to a Navy officer to use steam on new carriers instead of electromagnetic.
The officer made a very diplomagnetic response, setting trump straight, without calling him an idiot.
Take a listen -
trump, IMHO, was gunning for a Nobel Prize in electroPhysics, for mentioning electromagnetic and Einstein in a single sentence. Not to forget his invention of rake technology to prevent forest fires. He already has the Nobel Piece prize in the bag for 2019, for his work with the Saudi dismembering of journalists.
But note that after the officer’s response, trump chickened out and told him that he liked the answer (to go electro-magnetic ). So, there we have it - steam is out, EM is in. And please stop steaming your turkeys and vegetables. It is full-steam ahead with EM.
Apparently, trump made similar statements about a Navy catapult system in May 2017 to reporters from TIME magazine — time.com/...
You know the catapult is quite important. So I said what is this? Sir, this is our digital catapult system. He said well, we’re going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern [technology]. I said you don’t use steam anymore for catapult? No sir. I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”
It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said–and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said what system are you going to be–”Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said no you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.
He probably heard something about “digital catapult systems” on his favorite Faux channel and regurgitated it mixed with his own bile.
Here is some video of trump reading from the script. Does not appear that he even read it once before making a fool of himself on live TV.
How does one respond to such jiggery-pokery by the POTUS, who only recently stunned the scientific world with his insights on the raking of forests to combat forest fires? Here are a few tweets —
Catapults and EMALs
You can read about various types of catapults, used to launch aircraft from aircraft carriers, at en.wikipedia.org/…. Steam catapults are widely used around the world; the U.S. Navy is developing the use of Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMAL) with the construction of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.
Here are a couple of videos to help understand steam catapults and EMALs.
All this daily dose of stupid from trump is tiring and distracting, but none of this is helping trump and the GOP. Let’s keep mocking trump and the GOP. The voters need to be reminded every day of the criminal incompetence and callousness of trump and the GOP.
For some sober non-trumpian discussion, check out diary “Michael Moore's Thoughts on How to Win in 2020” at www.dailykos.com/….
Happy Thanksgiving.
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