Trump's latest rambling rally: 'I will take electrocution every single time'

Donald Trump began his Sunday rally on schedule and he started off with his attacks against electric vehicles, which, lately, have led him to complain about electric boats.

"So, let me ask you," Trump said in his rally speech. "Let's say a boat goes down and I'm sitting on top of a big powerful battery and the boat is going down, do I get electrocuted? ... But if I'm sitting down and that boat's going down and I'm on top of a battery, and the water starts flooding in, I'm getting concerned. But then I look ten yards to my left and there's a shark over there. So I have a choice of electrocution or a shark. You know what I'm going to take? Electrocution. I'll take electrocution every single time. Do we agree? But these people are crazy."

It's unknown if Trump meant to be flipping his statement to say he's pro-EV.

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In the past, Trump has claimed that EVs aren't good for the environment because they create "dust."

Trump is correct that an electric boat running with a giant orange electric cord across a lake wouldn't be safe. But one of Trump's biggest problems in his anti-battery argument against EVs is that gas engines also require batteries. There are batteries in cars and boats that would be exposed to the water if it was sinking. Gas is highly explosive.

In his speech to a Michigan crowd that was neither union, nor autoworkers, Trump attacked windmill power. He told the crowd that the windmills are killing whales, who swim underwater, not in the air. He previously claimed that the noise from windmills causes cancer. Windmills aren't loud and operate at generally 20 weighted decibels, which is the decibels heard by the human ear.

Trump has been attacking union workers and car companies for creating more electric vehicles, which he says aren't selling and will ultimately bankrupt the American auto industry. Trump incorrectly said that the electric vehicles are being manufactured in China. To obtain the $7,500 tax credit for the vehicles, they must be manufactured in the U.S. The "Made-in-America" rules begin with a lower percentage that must be made in the U.S. and slowly increase over time. The tax credit will be available until 2032.

Electric vehicle sales have soared this year, Forbes explained earlier this month, citing a report from the Energy Information Administration.

The data shows, "electric cars comprised nearly 7 percent of all light-duty vehicle sales in the second quarter of 2023. Hybrid sales are also up, and combined those two classes of care accounted for 16 percent of total light-duty sales in that quarter. That’s about three times what those sales were just 5 years ago."

As vehicle manufacturers begin to set up more manufacturing plants to ensure their cars meet the Made-in-America requirement, the number of EV purchases is likely to increase.

See the Trump clip in the video below or at the link here.

Trump Shark vs. electrocutionyoutu.be