Trump Declares: ‘Nobody Knows What Magnets Are’

Trump Declares: ‘Nobody Knows What Magnets Are’

Michael Luciano Nov 10th, 2025, 5:53 pm

President Donald Trump went on yet another rant about magnets, this time telling reporters that “nobody knows” what they are.

Trump took questions in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, where CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked the president about a critique from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in which the lawmaker said she wanted Trump to focus more on domestic policy.

The president responded by saying Greene has “lost her way” before launching into a meandering digression about NATO, China, and magnets:

China was going to hit us with rare-earth. Now, everybody says, “Oh, what does that mean?” Magnets. If China refused to give magnets, ’cause they have a monopoly on magnets ’cause they’re