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Trump still doesn’t grasp the concept of groceries

Trump still doesn’t grasp the concept of groceries

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Trump still doesn’t grasp the concept of groceries

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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump talks as he visits Sprankle's Neighborhood Market in Kittanning, Pa., Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visits Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 23, 2024.AP

President Donald Trump didn’t know what “groceries” were until just a few years ago. Which makes sense, given that he’s almost certainly never set foot inside a grocery store. He even called the word “groceries” “such an old term.”

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Now he’s discovered another amazing concept: discounted sale prices.

And because he’s Donald Trump, he assumes they’re about him.

“Great news! I have just been informed that one of the biggest, best, and smartest Retailers in America, Walmart, will be lowering prices, by a lot, at my Administration’s request to celebrate our great Country’s 250th birthday,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Walmart will, in particular, be dropping the price for a pound of ground beef by almost 15%, among many other products.” 

Yeah, Walmart is having a sale on summer staples—and their announcement said absolutely nothing about giving Trump any credit for it.

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“This is a huge deal for the many millions of Americans who, smartly, shop at Walmart, which is a truly patriotic Company who loves the U.S.A.,” he further babbled about the retailer, probably after buying stock in the company. 

For the record, one study found that “In the 10 years after a Walmart Supercenter opened in a given community, the average household in that community experienced a 6 percent decline in yearly income—equivalent to about $5,000 a year in 2024 dollars—compared with households that didn’t have a Walmart open near them. Low-income, young, and less-educated workers suffered the largest losses.”

A cartoon by Clay Jones of President Donald Trump thinking about everything but "Americans' finances."
Clay Jones

For Trump, there’s apparently nothing more patriotic than making working people poorer.

“My Administration is lowering prices that Joe Biden incompetently raised with the worst inflation crisis in history, a total disaster along with the Southern Border, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, and many other failures,” Trump added, once again blaming former President Joe Biden while pretending his own tariffs aren’t pushing prices higher.

But he wasn’t done.

“Just as I promised, Oil Prices are plummeting FAST, and Gas Prices at the pump are dropping too, just like egg and Prescription Drug prices which I am bringing down by historic levels.”

Next he’ll take credit for two-for-one avocado deals and the manager’s special on rotisserie chickens.

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  1. Comment by kamachanda.

    Bag boys, big beautiful muscular bag boys with tears in their eyes came up to him and said "Sir", "Sir"...

  2. Comment by A Pagan in Arizona.

    It's wild because he's quite good at grasping in general. Money. Power. Other humans' bodies.

    He's also clearly a fan of groceries, whatever term is used to describe them.

  3. Comment by Mother Mags.

    Walmart opens a store near your small town and dozens of small stores and shops go out of business, while employees make shit wages with shittier benefits. Donald Trump gets elected president ... rinse and repeat for the country.

  4. Comment by murphy.

    Would that he would wake up one day and find himself, literally, in the situation of ordinary Americans who are just trying to make it day to day. You know, like in a movie, only REAL, wherein he would find out what groceries actually are. And learn that, if the price of gas doesn’t go down, he won’t have a way to get to work, or the grocery store. And what it’s like to lose your job because the Federal contract your company had is suddenly cancelled or the government job you had is eliminated. You know, “made up” stuff. Right?

    • Reply by Simnsays.

      I vote for him waking up on the street, in a tent, in 102 degrees, with no food.

    • Reply by ktoz.

      A tent? How posh!

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      At risk of running afoul of some rule(s) here, I hope he soon goes to sleep and never wakes up.

    • Reply by Simnsays.

      I was trying to be nice. What I really want involves the 9th Circle and the company of Mitch McConnell for eternity. ;-)

  5. Comment by Whatsnuts.

    McDonald's is not a grocery store.

  6. Comment by terranova108.

    So the government dictating consumer prices (then bragging about it)? There’s a word for that on the tip of my tongue that begins with commun- and ends with -ism.

    • Reply by Digler.

      Trump has no idea of what groceries are or what communism is. He preaches anti communist propaganda while he remains the lackey of former Russian communist KGB operative, Vladimir Putin. He's desperate to turn his unpopularity with Americans around and is going to the oldest republican playbook and hoping no one notices that he's full of shit.

  7. Comment by noofsh.

    Such an idiot and a con artist. Sadly the con still works on many people.

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      The con still works on TOO MANY people.

    • Reply by first last.

      Just saw a YT comment that read exactly like a Democratic Socialist platform of actually helping people, but credited to the trump cabal instead. It wasn’t sarcasm. They are blatantly desperate.

  8. Comment by B.

    ten years ago, a cartload of groceries would cost me around $200 and it is double that now

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      Yes, but your income has doubled in the same time, hasn't it? s/

      The Pumpkin Pinochet family's income has risen dramatically since he regained the office of POTUS, then everyone else's must have as well. After all, ever since St. Reagan, the Republicans have been telling us that "a rising tide lifts all boats."

  9. Comment by noofsh.

    Groceries … it’s a very complicated word. Yeah for Donald Rumpbrains!

  10. Comment by Milwrob.

    This line of Orange Caligula BS gets a RED CARD!

  11. Comment by Wintercat.

    The stinky blob would never eat an avocado.

  12. Comment by busterggi.

    Coming soon - an executive order that Trump's picture must appear on all coupons.

    • Reply by B.

      wiping thy ass with coupons may be painful; we must stop that order!

  13. Comment by eXtina.

    And, he's all set to shovel another $44B to farmers to make up for his historic mistakes.

  14. Comment by suzeli.

    So, I guess this means trump will be cutting the rent he charges for office space in his buildings, and the membership fees he charges at his various clubs? Hahaha. Don't be stupid. That's HIS money, dammit, and he'd be a fool not to grab as much of it as he could. Only OTHER people need to cut their prices.

  15. Comment by Matt Z.

    People supposedly voted for this fellow's keen business accumen.

    Unless... That's not what this is actually about.

    • Reply by Rexxmama.

      Yes, we had friends who used the "sharp businessman" argument on Spouse and me, trying to sway us into voting R back in 2016. They didn't believe he'd bankrupted a casino, stiffed contractors, bilked money via his fake "university", etc. Of course, by then they were both retired and had nothing better to do than watch Faux Snooze.

    • Reply by Wintercat.

      Who bankrupted casinos.

    • Reply by Digler.

      Perfectly sums up my experiences as well.

    • Reply by Simnsays.

      Someone sent we a two paged, typed letter before the election lecturing me on how wonderful tariffs would be and how I should vote for Trump (I assume this was prompted by my Harris sign in the front yard). It was unsigned or I'd be writing back now asking how those wonderful tariffs worked out.

    • Reply by Stwriley.

      You could always take that old Harris sign, paper over it, write "How are those tariffs working out for you?" on it, and put it in the same place you had it before. They'll see it.

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