0/5 A thought. Bear with me, please.

1/5 When a high-mass star reaches the end of its life, the core collapses. This sets up a complicated series of conditions that result in a vast blast wave tearing through the upper layers, creating an explosion: a supernova.

2/5 This colossal explosion creates such high temperatures and pressures in the upper layers of the star that not only does it blast them off at high speed, but that material undergoes nuclear fusion, called explosive nucleosynthesis.

3/5 Huge amounts of heavy elements are made, nearly ungraspable amounts. Among them, iron is created from lighter elements. In a typical supernova, the amount of iron generated in the explosion can equal 70 *thousand* times the mass of the Earth.

4/5 From the iron alone you could make TENS OF THOUSANDS of planets like our own, planets *entirely* made of iron.

5/5 And that amount of iron is nothing — NOTHING — compared to the irony of Trumpanistas using #StopTheSteal as a slogan for the post-election.