It's like he takes fragments of memories and tries to make it a policy suggestion.

Bombing hurricanes was a theory in the atomic age and became an urban legend.

During a COVID briefing, he read a poster about how to disinfect surfaces and thought they would make suitable treatments.

With the electric aircraft thing he probably saw a tweet about NASA's Pathfinder and made a ton of assumptions about electric aircraft.

It's an incredibly stupid way to operate as someone who wants to lead the creation of policy.