Why Is Donald Trump Talking about Magnetism and Hundreds of Other Subjects He Knows Nothing About?

It’s totally fine that the U.S. president doesn’t understand the principles of magnetism, but does he need to talk about it in front of a huge, international audience?  If you haven’t seen this and the other videos on this subject, now’s the time.

If I’m asked to be on some radio or TV show, I immediately ask about the focus of the program.  Things like environmental sustainability in general and renewable energy specifically get an automatic yes.  But there are thousands of topics you couldn’t pay me enough to engage in: Chinese cooking, third-world politics, the life and times of Millard Fillmore.  Of the many reasons I’d decline such requests, one of them is that I’d certainly make a total ass of myself.

Donald Trump apparently was born without that gene in his body.  Ask him about, or, better yet, put him in change of domestic or world economics, and just watch him go.

This wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t for the fact that American voters can’t get enough of his ignorance.

Two hundred years ago, we wanted a Princeton grad like James Madison.  One hundred years ago, we wanted another: Woodrow Wilson.  Now we want the village idiot.  Not only do we want an idiot, we will not accept a person of intelligence.