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   Trump Gets Stuck on ‘Magnets’ 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 didn’t give   
   the U.S. magnets.   
      
   “They have to give us magnets. If they don’t give us magnets, then we have   
   to charge them 200 percent tariff for something, you know?” 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.   
      
   “You know, China intelligently went and they sort of took a monopoly of the   
   world’s magnets, and nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody   
   20 years ago, ‘Let’s all do magnets,’” Trump went on. “There were many   
   other ways that the world could have gone.”   
   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 “probably a year” to acquire   
   them.   
      
   The U.S., he said, will be “heavy into the world of magnets now—only from a   
   national security standpoint.”   
      
   Trump’s mention of magnets came amid a discussion on Boeing aircraft.   
      
   “I sent them all of the parts so their planes can fly,” Trump said of   
   China. “200 of their planes were unable to fly because we were not giving   
   them Boeing parts purposely because they weren’t giving us magnets.”   
      
   “But we have a much more powerful thing, and that’s tariffs,” he said,   
   adding: “We’re going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of   
   time.”   
      
   The White House didn’t 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 don’t work underwater. They do.   
      
   He also criticized them being used as part of the Electromagnetic Aircraft   
   Launch System earlier this year.   
      
   “And 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,” he said in February.   
      
   “It’s a new theory: Magnets are going to lift the planes up. And it doesn’t   
   work. And they had billions and billions of dollars of cost overruns,”   
   Trump claimed, even there’s no proof that those magnets don’t work.   
      
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