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

odins folly

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

(180,658 posts)
8. MaddowBlog-Baffled by his own 'corner store' reference, Trump's problems with groceries persist
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:37 PM
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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

(18,886 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
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but I've never seen any "quarter stores."

Wednesdays

(22,822 posts)
16. "That's a good quarter cigar. I smoked the other three quarters myself."
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 05:34 PM
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-- 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
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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

(41,063 posts)
5. Narcissists only half-listen
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:29 PM
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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

(26,226 posts)
6. "before he does something catastrophically ignorant"???
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:32 PM
Friday

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

swong19104

(639 posts)
9. So he's
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:55 PM
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Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella. SNL is supposed to parody the White House, not the other way around.

bmichaelh

(1,217 posts)
10. Malapropisms
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:06 PM
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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

(41,952 posts)
11. He's hard of hearing, he needs eyeglasses and a hearing aid
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:30 PM
Friday

.... 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

(27,911 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
Friday

BannonsLiver

(20,708 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
Friday

calimary

(90,316 posts)
20. Here to help! AND to help make the case for his R-E-M-O-V-A-L !!!!!!!
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 07:14 PM
Saturday

I figure, by now, we've seen enough. Hell, MORE than enough!!!

At this point, it's him or us. America can't afford both.

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