‘Nobody knows what magnets are’: Baffled Donald Trump channels Insane Clown Posse in bizarre China ramble

Say what you will about the literary merits of the Insane Clown Posse, but “f**kin’ magnets, how do they work” is an all-timer lyric. But, while that’s amusing and memorable coming from the painted lips of clown-themed rapper Shaggy 2 Dope, it’s somewhat less amusing to hear the same sentiment uttered by the President of the United States of America.

But here we are with Donald Trump rambling on about whatever nonsense diatribe squirms out of his liquefying brain. Today’s subject! The mysteries of magnets!

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are." pic.twitter.com/nxnLmKbFDP

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2025

Let’s be fair to Trump and take his words verbatim:

“China was gonna hit us with rare earth. Now, everybody says, what does that mean? Magnets! If China refused to give magnets because they have a monopoly on magnets because they’ve allowed… it happened over a 32 year period. Uh, there wouldn’t be a car made in the entire world, there wouldn’t be a radio, there wouldn’t be a television, there wouldn’t be internet, there wouldn’t be anything, because magnets are such a… Now, nobody knows what magnets are…”

If this were a just world, Trump would be delivering this rambling garbage to a bored nursing home attendant who’d reply, “Okay Donald, meds time and then we’ll put you in front of the TV in the comfy chair…”

Anyway, the ICP said all that much more clearly and more succinctly with their timeless bars on ‘Miracles’:

Water, fire, air and dirt
F**kin magnets, how do they work?
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherf**kers lying, and getting me pissed.

Down with the clown

It’s safe to say that Trump’s paraphrasing of ICP didn’t go unnoticed online:

I am guessing he doesn't want to talk with a scientist.

— Top #10^6 LinkedIn Expert 🐵 (@ReptilianLvl94) November 11, 2025

Frankly, I’d be much happier with the ICP in the White House than Trump. After all, redecorating the Oval Office in the style of the Dark Carnival would be far more entertaining than whatever gaudy gold rubbish he’s putting in there, it’d be fun to see world leaders getting doused in Faygo, and the 2017 Juggalo protest in Washington against them being deemed a gang saw them triumph over a Trump rally.

ICP also has a firm political platform based around the time-honored message “f**k the man”: a movement rooted in anti-elitism, inclusivity, and disdain for “wicked” figures like Trump. I don’t know what their infrastructure policies would look like, but I’d stand side-by-side with a Juggalo against ICE any day of the week. As Violent J put it in 2024: “Every vote matters, even clown ones.”