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Here are some great examples of trump not understanding what he was told (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 20 hrs ago OP
Almost funny but closer to scary. efhmc 20 hrs ago #1
I am scared about trump's continued mental decline LetMyPeopleVote 20 hrs ago #2
Worried about Trump's mental decline Dave Id 18 hrs ago #14
Don't forget the most recent odins folly 19 hrs ago #3
MaddowBlog-Baffled by his own 'corner store' reference, Trump's problems with groceries persist LetMyPeopleVote 19 hrs ago #8
I've heard of "dime stores" (the old Five and Dime stores) and "dollar stores" (now dollar and a quarter stores), sop 18 hrs ago #13
"That's a good quarter cigar. I smoked the other three quarters myself." Wednesdays 14 hrs ago #16
I think perhaps, we are a bit too late with the catastrophically stupid thing Trump might do. dugog55 19 hrs ago #4
Narcissists only half-listen leftstreet 19 hrs ago #5
"before he does something catastrophically ignorant"??? wnylib 19 hrs ago #6
"He was born that way, LOW IQ" dalton99a 19 hrs ago #7
So he's swong19104 19 hrs ago #9
Malapropisms bmichaelh 19 hrs ago #10
He's hard of hearing, he needs eyeglasses and a hearing aid FakeNoose 18 hrs ago #11
I think that's why happened. It explains a lot, and conforms perfectly with Trump's mental deterioration. Martin68 18 hrs ago #12
I feel like this also might be the case with the "nuclear dust. We're getting the dust back" comments. BannonsLiver 17 hrs ago #15
SCARED-AS-HELL czarjak 12 hrs ago #17
he is a fucking moron Skittles 2 hrs ago #18

odins folly

(616 posts)
3. Don't forget the most recent
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:25 PM
19 hrs ago

I’ve 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)
8. MaddowBlog-Baffled by his own 'corner store' reference, Trump's problems with groceries persist
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:37 PM
19 hrs ago

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 ‘corner store’ reference, Trump’s 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

As The New York Times noted, the president ran into fresh trouble during an event in Las Vegas on the economy.

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? I’ve never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, but I’ve never heard it described a corner store,’ said Trump. He looked up sharply and said, ‘Who the hell wrote that?’


Evidently, he didn’t 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, it’s amazing he hasn’t 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.

“It’s 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

(18,868 posts)
13. I've heard of "dime stores" (the old Five and Dime stores) and "dollar stores" (now dollar and a quarter stores),
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:35 PM
18 hrs ago

but I've never seen any "quarter stores."

Wednesdays

(22,806 posts)
16. "That's a good quarter cigar. I smoked the other three quarters myself."
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 05:34 PM
14 hrs ago

-- Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup"

dugog55

(379 posts)
4. I think perhaps, we are a bit too late with the catastrophically stupid thing Trump might do.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:29 PM
19 hrs ago

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)
5. Narcissists only half-listen
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:29 PM
19 hrs ago

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)
6. "before he does something catastrophically ignorant"???
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:32 PM
19 hrs ago

That ship has already sailed, but currently blocked at Hormuz.

swong19104

(639 posts)
9. So he's
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:55 PM
19 hrs ago

Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella. SNL is supposed to parody the White House, not the other way around.

bmichaelh

(1,214 posts)
10. Malapropisms
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:06 PM
19 hrs ago

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)
11. He's hard of hearing, he needs eyeglasses and a hearing aid
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:30 PM
18 hrs ago

.... 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)
12. I think that's why happened. It explains a lot, and conforms perfectly with Trump's mental deterioration.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:34 PM
18 hrs ago

BannonsLiver

(20,701 posts)
15. I feel like this also might be the case with the "nuclear dust. We're getting the dust back" comments.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 02:33 PM
17 hrs ago
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