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Trump Suggests Planes Can’t Fly When It’s Not Sunny (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] andrewth09 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's like he takes fragments of memories and tries to make it a policy suggestion.

Bombing hurricanes was a theory in the atomic age and became an urban legend.

During a COVID briefing, he read a poster about how to disinfect surfaces and thought they would make suitable treatments.

With the electric aircraft thing he probably saw a tweet about NASA's Pathfinder and made a ton of assumptions about electric aircraft.

It's an incredibly stupid way to operate as someone who wants to lead the creation of policy.

[–] Snapz 8 points 4 months ago

He's an incredibly stupid man, so that makes sense.