'Breathtaking Stupidity': Trump's Latest Bizarre Claim Quickly Attracts Critics

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="6912d4a4e4b0f8fc6ee3e301">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"951303e8-4ee8-45f6-adc7-5a0849c0735e"}).render("6912d4a4e4b0f8fc6ee3e301");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>President <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Donald Trump</a> on Monday made a bonkers claim that “nobody knows” about <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/magnet" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">magnets</a> while bragging about his dealmaking abilities.</p><p>Trump — after being asked about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s critique that he should focus more on domestic policy — made his way to talk of China restricting exports of processed rare earths and magnets, rules the country has <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/china-starts-work-easing-rare-earth-export-rules-short-trump-hopes-sources-say-2025-11-07/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reportedly eased</a> since a deal between Trump and China’s Xi Jinping last month.</p><p>“If China refused to give magnets, ’cause they have a monopoly on m