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Trump Suggests Planes Can’t Fly When It’s Not Sunny(www.theatlantic.com)

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Filibuster_Rhymes@lemm.ee
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Trump is mistakenly equating electric planes with solar powered planes. It’s that simple. It was a snarky talking point on fox years ago to say that these planes would only be able to fly when it’s sunny. He tends to latch on to fox talking points and then jumble them up when speaking because he doesn’t have a very firm understanding of how things work.

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Fox says a thing as an opinion. Trump says the same thing as a statement because Fox viewers don’t know fact from opinion (or from “satire”, legally). Fox says Trump said the thing as a fact, so it must be fact. This is a feedback loop. This is by design.

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