Donald Trump Finds Danica Patrick in Crowd and Goes on Odd Tangent About ‘Hydrogen Cars’ Exploding

Donald Trump made a bizarre claim about exploding “hydrogen cars” when he spotted former professional racer Danica Patrick in the crowd at a rally.

Trump on Thursday night headlined Turning Point USA’s rally in Las Vegas. While talking about electric cars and the need to diversify between electric and gas in the automotive industry, he spotted Patrick in the crowd and explained the supposed dangers of “hydrogen cars” exploding.

“And they are great,” he said about electric cars. “They’re great, but for a certain group of people; but we want to have gasoline-propelled cars. We want to have hybrids, which are good, Hybrids are good — combination of both. We want to have everything.

Hydrogen, I don’t know about it. I think Danica would know about hydrogen. Hydrogen cars, Danica, they say they’re really good — except there’s one problem. When there’s a mishap, when it explodes a little bit, they cannot even recognize you; so we never wanna do that. That’s too much. Hydrogen cars — I think we’ll take a pass on hydrogen.”

Trump then acted out a hypothetical situation in which a man loses his wife to a hydrogen car explosion.

“‘Sir, your wife was in a little accident,'” he continued. “‘Oh, what kind of a car?’ ‘Hydrogen’ ‘Where is she?’ ‘We don’t know. She’s gone, sir!’ ‘Oh, my wife! I wanna see my wife again! Hydrogen, no!'”