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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
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?"
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
ornotna
(11,519 posts)newdeal2
(5,496 posts)Maru Kitteh
(31,858 posts)Our best hope in this case is his much-abused circulatory system. Im certain hes had at least one stroke. He has obvious, documented peripheral circulatory disease. He probably eats a Filet O Fish every day because they told him he needs to eat more fish.
Walleye
(45,072 posts)I always suspected he didnt listen to himself, but now we know he has no idea whats coming out of his mouth
Emrys
(9,166 posts)Trump actually says:
So yes, he has no idea what a corner store is.
LeftInTX
(34,545 posts)I guess Trump has never had the privilege of going to 7-11
newdeal2
(5,496 posts)But he never leaves his gilded penthouse or limo so he wouldnt know.
Zambero
(10,004 posts)Strip Mall?? Who the hell wrote that one?!?
displacedvermoter
(4,719 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,431 posts)Dotard is ready for Happy Acres
eppur_se_muova
(42,098 posts)for him, including prep and delivery of every meal, every article of clothing, every stick of furniture, every tacky simulated gold-plated wall applique. He doesn't live in a bubble, he lives in a crypt. At least it makes for a short trip when the time comes.
Remember the famous "Diet Coke button" on his desk ? He probably couldn't tell you where Diet Coke comes from to save his life.
MineralMan
(151,402 posts)He has not experienced anything like a typical life. Not to know what a corner store is means he has no experience of life n a typical city neighborhood.
Many of the corner stores that used to exist are closed now, but in some cities, they remain the heart of commerce in people's real lives. In suburban America, they have been replaced by the convenience stores at gas stations, though.
In the cordoned-off high end residential areas, the corner store neve existed. People had servants to do the shopping.
edhopper
(37,395 posts)it is a very New York thing. "Going to the Corner Store for milk"
Use to be "Going to the Corner Store for smokes."
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,093 posts)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.