In a soliloquy on batteries for electric vehicles, including ships, he pondered what would happen if such a boat were to sink and the battery would submerge.

“It must be because of MIT, my relationship with MIT, very smart, I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there,” he said as MAGA supporters listened intently. “By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice this? A lot of sha…”

“So there is a shark 10 yards from the boat, ten yards… or here,” he said. “Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking? Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?”

“He didn’t know. He said: ‘Nobody has ever asked me that question.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a good question. I think there is a lot of electric current coming through that water,’” Trump said. “But you know what I would do if there is a shark or you get electrocuted? I’ll take electrocution every single time.* I’m not getting near the shark.”

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    His uncle John Trump was a professor at MIT. Somehow that makes him a genius and gives him a relationship to MIT.

    I also have a physicist relative connected to a prestigious institution and I’m a moron.

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      I mean he inherited everything he owns. He must be thinking that knowledge works the same way.

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        Well I’m sure as hell not a physicist. I didn’t even finish college.

        Edit: How did I manage to bring that up twice in one thread?

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          It you were a physicist, you could read minds and tell the future!

          … or is that those doctors?