Trump links electric batteries to shark attacks – days after three injured in Florida

Former President Donald Trump appeared to compare the dangers of electric vehicle batteries and sharks during a speech in Las Vegas on Sunday, just days after three people, including two Alabama teenagers, were injured in two shark attacks in Florida.

“I ask: What would happen if the boat sank due to its weight and you had this enormously powerful battery and that battery was now underwater and there was a shark about 30 feet away,” Trump said.

“By the way, there have been a lot of shark attacks lately, have you noticed? I saw a couple of guys today justifying it. ‘Well, they weren’t really angry. They bit the young woman’s leg off because they weren’t hungry, but they didn’t understand who she was,'” Trump continued.

“These people are crazy. He said there was no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand that a young woman swam out and was decimated, and other people too.”

Ultimately, Trump said he would stay on the boat and risk being electrocuted rather than being bitten by a shark.

“Do I get an electric shock or do I jump over the shark? I’m not going near the shark.”

Mountain Brook teenagers Lulu Gribbin and McCray Faust were injured Friday in one of two shark attacks within 90 minutes on a four-mile-long beach in Walton County.

Gribbin lost a hand and a leg.

About an hour and a half before the attack on the two teenagers, a 45-year-old woman lost a foot in an attack.