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efhmc
(16,815 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(180,616 posts)Dave Id
(296 posts)Shame congress isn't.
odins folly
(616 posts)Ive never heard of a Corner Store, I know what a Quarter Store is
No one has ever heard of a Quarter Store
LetMyPeopleVote
(180,616 posts)The president can wax rhapsodic about his marble preferences and his affection for Corinthian columns. Corner store, however, left him badly confused.
Baffled by his own âcorner storeâ reference, Trumpâs problems with groceries persist - MS NOW apple.news/AA6gvd1eLRIe...
— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T16:18:20.401Z
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-corner-store-las-vegas-ballroom
Trump was touting tax cuts for small businesses when he came across the term corner store as he read off prepared remarks. What is a corner store? Ive never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, but Ive never heard it described a corner store, said Trump. He looked up sharply and said, Who the hell wrote that?
Evidently, he didnt familiarize himself with the text that someone else had written for him ahead of the event.
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-17T01:17:55.652Z
After years of struggling with this issue, its amazing he hasnt yet familiarized himself with the basics. Early in his first term, for example, Trump insisted that consumers need to show identification while buying groceries, including cereal and bread. (None of this was true.),,,
In his second term, his approach to the issue has grown weirder, to the point that he even began characterizing groceries as an exotic word last year.
Its such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term: groceries, Trump said last April, as if he were introducing the public to foreign terminology. It says a bag with different things in it.....
But his remarks in Las Vegas managed to break new ground. Trump, who used to live in a gold tower in Manhattan, and who now splits his time between a presidential mansion and a glorified country club in Florida, can wax rhapsodic about his marble preferences and his affection for Corinthian columns, but confronted with the words corner store, he was utterly baffled.
sop
(18,866 posts)but I've never seen any "quarter stores."
Wednesdays
(22,806 posts)-- Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup"

dugog55
(379 posts)I do believe the Iran war will qualify for that. Europe is set to run out of jet fuel in six weeks. This is right before their huge tourist season kicks into gear. Trump destroyed refineries that may take years to get back on line. There are countless business and entire countries that depend on a strong tourist season. This jet fuel shortage could wreak havoc with global wide economies. Face it, the man is an absolute disaster wrapped in a despicable personality.
It is way past time for politicians and the ultra wealthy to start paying for their mistakes or corruption. They have been getting away with everything for decades, that is why we now have Trump. No accountability, with Nixon, Reagan, North, the Supreme Court handing Bush the election in 2000, Bush and his entire Cabinet for lying about Hussein, Iraq and Afghanistan, Cheney, the backers of the so called Tea Party, Citizens United, and letting Trump off the hook in his first term. Then there was the complete fiasco with January 6th, why were those protesters not arrested on the spot leaving the Capital Building? Then Garland slow walking the trials and never getting to Trump who orchestrated the whole thing. How did Aileen Cannon manage to hold off the US DOJ from prosecuting Trump for all the top secret files in his bathroom? This whole system stinks to high heaven when it involves the wealthy or politically connected.
leftstreet
(41,050 posts)Their ears are highly tuned for the slightest personal criticism or praise. That's it.
Everything else is just vague, unimportant chatter to them
DURec
wnylib
(26,220 posts)That ship has already sailed, but currently blocked at Hormuz.
dalton99a
(94,644 posts)swong19104
(639 posts)Gilda Radners Emily Litella. SNL is supposed to parody the White House, not the other way around.
bmichaelh
(1,214 posts)Trump also engages in malapropisms but unintentional.
Writers use this rhetorical device intentionally for comic effect, like Shakespeare and The Sopranos.
In his first term, he used "oranges" instead of "origin"
He said it twice in a row; had to define the word, before saying it correctly a third time.
FakeNoose
(41,931 posts).... but he's too vain to admit anything, or to wear glasses in public.
So he blames his mistakes on everyone else. What an asshole.
Martin68
(27,902 posts)BannonsLiver
(20,701 posts)czarjak
(13,661 posts)Going down with The Goobers!
Hell-Brent-Christianity
Skittles
(172,139 posts)and he proves it every fucking day