This is such a weird, animistic/anthropomorphic, projective way to think about technology: "[EM] Doesn’t have the power...the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”
Err. Just turn up the voltage.
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Someone show the man a rail gun demo or something.
Again, not unique to Trump. I think many people have a very theatrical understanding of tech. Animistic power = dramatic sound and fury and hissing and stuff. Very steampunk.
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Maybe it's more basic than that. As in developmentally basic.
Like he isn't 100% confident in object permanence.
Try covering the aircraft carrier with a blanket and see if he asks where it went.
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That might be the most brutal thing anyone's ever said about him
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This is how someone born in 1900 thinks. Not coincidentally, Fred Trump (b. 1905), is the last worldview DJT had to assimilate to.



