President Donald Trump had a meltdown over magnets as he launched into an address before some 6,000 sailors and top brass aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier off the coast of Japan during his trip to Asia this week.

Trump was aboard the USS George Washington docked at Yokosuka Naval Base when he digressed into a long-winded, rambling rant demanding aircraft carriers return to using “steam for catapults” and hydraulics for elevators before incoherently claiming that water can disable magnets, according to the Daily Beast.

“You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning and it’s fine, you take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets. I don’t know what’s going to happen,” a clearly confused Trump declared in the Oct. 28 speech.

“So, you kn

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