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BumRushDaShow

(170,755 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 06:37 AM Friday

'Who the Hell Wrote That?' Trump Stops Mid-Speech To Say He Doesn't Know What a 'Corner Store' Is

Source: MEDIAite

Apr 16th, 2026, 9:42 pm


President Donald Trump paused his prepared remarks on Thursday to confess he had “never heard” the term “corner store” before.

The president was in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he touted last year’s passage of his “No Tax on Tips” policy, which was included in the omnibus budget the Republican-controlled Congress passed in July. The provision allows employees who receive tips to deduct up to $25,000 in tips when filing their taxes. Trump also boasted of the tax cuts included in the bill. While doing so, he was tripped up by the inclusion of the term “corner store,” which had been written into his speech.

“The great big beautiful bill also slashed taxes on millions of Americans, small businesses, including restaurants, dry cleaners, corner stores,” the president said before pausing his speech. “What is a corner store? I’ve never heard that term. I know what a quarter store is, but I’ve never heard it described. A corner store. Who the hell wrote that, please?”

Several people in the audience laughed at Trump’s admission. Corner stores, of course, are shops where patrons can purchase staples such as groceries, a term the president has also mused about publicly. “But a big thing on costs, you know, the new word is ‘affordability,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in November. “Another word is just ‘groceries.’ You know, it’s sort of an old-fashioned word, but it’s very accurate.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/who-the-hell-wrote-that-trump-stops-mid-speech-to-say-he-doesnt-know-what-a-corner-store-is/

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'Who the Hell Wrote That?' Trump Stops Mid-Speech To Say He Doesn't Know What a 'Corner Store' Is (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
He says he knows what a quarter store is. What is that? Irish_Dem Friday #1
Maybe an inflated "Five and Dime"?? bucolic_frolic Friday #5
This is what I think. He was thinking Five and Dime. Irish_Dem Friday #21
Maybe he was trying to picture an office with wnylib Friday #51
He would probably think a store in one corner of the room is a gift shop? Irish_Dem Friday #53
But he's a man of the people... COL Mustard Friday #97
He is a man of the crime syndicate people. Irish_Dem Friday #98
I'm a few years younger than Chump, and I remember "dime stores" from the 1950s FakeNoose Friday #75
Two things: Dementia and his entire life with servants. Irish_Dem Friday #77
We called it the 10 cent store in the mid-50s, in the Pac. NW. Dixiegrrrl Friday #91
Mr. ShitsInHisPants is part of the privileged elite. magicarpet Friday #80
Yes steals, not shops. Irish_Dem Friday #81
Indeed.. Stealing is the source of all his acquisitions. He has little need to go shopping like regular folk.. magicarpet Friday #82
He basically takes what he wants. Irish_Dem Friday #83
And THAT'S the part I seriously don't understand. calimary Saturday #115
Yes it is no longer about Trump at all. Irish_Dem Saturday #116
That must be it. LisaM Friday #49
Yeah, but in the 1950's when he grew up, corner stores were ubiquitous. Wednesdays Friday #68
He probably... GiqueCee Friday #25
Good point, he thought people were saying "quarter" and never realized anything different. Irish_Dem Friday #28
Sadly... GiqueCee Friday #30
Outstanding! displacedvermoter Friday #40
A high end five and dime? displacedvermoter Friday #38
Maybe it is a kinky sex shop? Irish_Dem Friday #45
Peep Show! BumRushDaShow Friday #60
Exactly what he means. Peep shown for a quarter. Irish_Dem Friday #63
It's where you buy bitcoins and other types of rare coins. ECL213 Friday #43
A coiner store, that's the ticket! yorkster Friday #47
Anybody who still believes he is cognitively okay BlueKota Friday #71
Most people don't seem to care. Irish_Dem Friday #73
There are Dollar Stores. TomSlick Friday #105
Yes, but his associations are so loose and tangential. Irish_Dem Friday #106
Only heaven knows what what is rattling around in what might have once been his brain. TomSlick Friday #107
Whatever is rattling around is not good. Irish_Dem Friday #108
"What's a quarter?" ck4829 8 hrs ago #118
Next time, try Bodega C_U_L8R Friday #2
Too ethic. Squaredeal Friday #17
There isn't one damn ounce of ethics in anything he says... sarchasm Friday #46
And we know he's ethically challenged. yorkster Friday #48
Him and his base will be scratching their heads ck4829 8 hrs ago #119
"Corner store" is a term that's likely 150 years old bucolic_frolic Friday #3
He is so completely out of touch with the folks that pay for all the fun he is having. Trueblue Texan Friday #24
The Orange Anus... GiqueCee Friday #29
Haha we still say green grocer róisín_dubh Saturday #114
We only have a supermarket... GiqueCee Saturday #117
And he's from NYC, probably the place with more corner stores than anywhere else. AKA grocery stores. (n/t) thesquanderer Friday #33
f you''ve driven through his neighborhood, Forest Hills, Queens... there are no corners stores. 3Hotdogs Friday #42
There are Corner Stores in Douglaston, Queens were it was dumped. dave99 Friday #58
Right? ck4829 8 hrs ago #123
A corner store is, obviously, a store that sells corners. D'uh! Intractable Friday #4
Really frustrating to get trapped into a corner store. Onthefly Friday #9
Oh no, I have painted myself into a corner store. ECL213 Friday #44
You really got yourself in a pickle barrel. Onthefly Friday #86
Wrong. It is a store that Bluetus Friday #32
He is demented Blues Heron Friday #6
This phrase is so ingrained EYESORE 9001 Friday #7
He's a man of the people. Harker Friday #8
Perfect twodogsbarking Friday #14
"These are simple folk. The salt of the earth.., Squaredeal Friday #18
Welll. It's true as he's been bribed by many people and blackmailed many people. cstanleytech Friday #65
Yes, he's also man of the people who give him what he wants. Harker Friday #67
Just proudly showing off his ignorance. mwmisses4289 Friday #10
Its like a corner B2 bomber, except its a store Blues Heron Friday #11
The man is an imbecile. Ray Bruns Friday #12
He really, really is ck4829 8 hrs ago #124
"Twelve million small "FLIERS" paid ...... AZ8theist Friday #13
Not long ago Trump said the same about groceries!! riversedge Friday #15
FYI, he also doesn't know what a "days work" means or feels like. Ferrets are Cool Friday #16
He's never heard of frogmarch Friday #19
"Says a lot about the ignorance of this country that there are millions of people who look at this decrepit lying sack o riversedge Friday #20
That is the dementia advancing Easterncedar Friday #22
Jesus, what an idiot. mwb970 Friday #23
Out of touch. Who could have guessed. AllyCat Friday #26
I think that was before everyone had a car Racygrandma Friday #27
He lacks inhibition, which often proves his ignorance. Martin Eden Friday #31
The only reason EuterpeThelo Friday #36
The cruelest punishment for Diaper Donald Martin Eden Friday #52
But EuterpeThelo Friday #62
It seems he's getting worse. He has no inhibition anymore. BradBo Friday #41
He grew up mgardener Friday #34
I doubt he has ever set foot in any kind of store that sells groceries. Diamond_Dog Friday #35
The hero of the common MAGAt..... SergeStorms Friday #37
Holy crap he's an idiot. He proved it everyday. He has no filter anymore. BradBo Friday #39
He grew up in NYC...and Dems are out of touch JT45242 Friday #50
Out Of Touch Clouds Passing Friday #54
Truly. ck4829 8 hrs ago #120
Someone please work the word "bodega" into his next speech. eppur_se_muova Friday #55
He'll flub that worse than the time he grunted "yo-smite... yo-sah-mite" (for Yosemite) QueerDuck Friday #56
I'm thinking "BAH-duh-gah." 3catwoman3 Friday #92
I like yours better than mine! That sounds about right. QueerDuck Friday #93
I want to hear how he pronounces it IronLionZion Friday #95
Tell the paranoid jerk the corner store is where people buy the National Enquirer Attilatheblond Friday #57
new yorkers call them "bodegas" rampartd Friday #59
I can't stand Trump, yall know that, but I've never heard the term "corner store" before. Must be a regional term. raccoon Friday #61
It's an "urban" term and he was born and raised in the most populated city in the U.S. BumRushDaShow Friday #64
Outside of campaign photo ops, Wednesdays Friday #66
How he became the man of working people is beyond me. nt City Lights Friday #69
It's a store where they sell corners! Duh, everybody knows that. Rob H. Friday #70
... eppur_se_muova Friday #90
Ha! Love it nt Rob H. Friday #111
Ficking moron. Martin68 Friday #72
MaddowBlog-Baffled by his own 'corner store' reference, Trump's problems with groceries persist LetMyPeopleVote Friday #74
It's like the Poppy Bush revelation BumRushDaShow Friday #87
In a writing workshop, I reviewed works by college seniors nuxvomica Friday #76
Plus, I don't think the idea of franchises had been invented by 1920 FakeNoose Friday #79
This message was self-deleted by its author 3825-87867 Friday #78
Any thing he thinks, goes out the mouth tonekat Friday #84
Just don't ask him what a quarter horse is. LudwigPastorius Friday #85
Why is a person with such low menality young_at_heart Friday #88
What a maroon! Danascot Friday #89
It's where we purchase corners for buildings, of course. Unless it's a round building with no corners. IronLionZion Friday #94
They're so freaking insanely rich they don't know the basics of shopping. SidneyR Friday #96
JFC Lemon Lyman Friday #99
Trump has probably never 'shopped' in a store for himself or anyone Dave Id Friday #100
Does he know what a cornerback is? milestogo Friday #101
Dumbass doesn't know thats where you get corners. nt doc03 Friday #102
I'll bet Jilly_in_VA Friday #103
You know it! ck4829 8 hrs ago #122
I wonder what he thinks Dollar Tree or Dollar General is? doc03 Friday #104
While I know what a corner store, I never heard of a quarter store Polybius Friday #109
What I posted upthread - the "Peep Shows" BumRushDaShow Friday #110
My Congressperson Jodey Arrington wrote TOBBBA! czarjak Friday #112
a store that sells corners? AncientOfDays Saturday #113
Haha ck4829 8 hrs ago #121
"We're out of ketchup! Send the help to the foodatorium!" ck4829 8 hrs ago #125

bucolic_frolic

(55,437 posts)
5. Maybe an inflated "Five and Dime"??
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 06:52 AM
Friday

Elites only deal in larger numbers, even if back in 1915.

But really, don't know.

wnylib

(26,229 posts)
51. Maybe he was trying to picture an office with
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:30 AM
Friday

a store in one corner of the room when he said that he didn't know what a corner store is.

Or was trying to picture a corner shaped store?

Irish_Dem

(81,867 posts)
53. He would probably think a store in one corner of the room is a gift shop?
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:41 AM
Friday

Yes he might have been literally.
A store shaped like a corner.
A store in a corner spot.

He couldn't picture it.

FakeNoose

(41,955 posts)
75. I'm a few years younger than Chump, and I remember "dime stores" from the 1950s
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:50 PM
Friday

Of course they're long gone and have been for some time. My mom used to call them dime stores (it was probably Woolworth's) so that's what we learned to call them.

I'm guessing dime stores are the closest equivalent to today's "dollar stores," but they're not really the same thing. In the 1959 or 60, I could take my 25-cent weekly allowance to the dime store and buy penny candy, a comic book, and a bottle of soda. Or I could go the ice cream shop and get a 5-cent ice cream cone, or really splurge and get two scoops for 10 cents. It was incomparable luxury!

What has me puzzled is why doesn't he recognize the term "corner store"? I mean, he grew up in New York where all the stores are corner stores, even in Queens. He's showing more symptoms of dementia, or Alzheimer's.

Irish_Dem

(81,867 posts)
77. Two things: Dementia and his entire life with servants.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:56 PM
Friday

The idea of shopping and stores are foreign to him.

Dixiegrrrl

(216 posts)
91. We called it the 10 cent store in the mid-50s, in the Pac. NW.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:47 PM
Friday

Also knew of it as the dime store, it did relate to Woolworths.

Interesting how universal the 25 cents a week allowance was. I got a comic book and single scoop ice cream cone, usually raspberry. 🤗

magicarpet

(18,914 posts)
80. Mr. ShitsInHisPants is part of the privileged elite.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:19 PM
Friday

He only goes shopping at Fort Knox. He does not buy any gold there he simply steals it by the truck load. That enables him to live like a king.

Irish_Dem

(81,867 posts)
81. Yes steals, not shops.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:20 PM
Friday

The idea of actually paying for anything is foreign to him.
Only suckers and losers pay for things.

magicarpet

(18,914 posts)
82. Indeed.. Stealing is the source of all his acquisitions. He has little need to go shopping like regular folk..
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:27 PM
Friday

calimary

(90,320 posts)
115. And THAT'S the part I seriously don't understand.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:21 AM
Saturday

Why doesn't anyone stop him? He's in lame-duck territory now. Polls aren't encouraging. They continue to slide in a downward direction. And as he ages, he becomes weaker and weaker as the "luster" fades.

Irish_Dem

(81,867 posts)
116. Yes it is no longer about Trump at all.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 06:11 AM
Saturday

But an entire country which allows or encourages his crimes and evil.

The shame is on the entire US now.

LisaM

(29,665 posts)
49. That must be it.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:26 AM
Friday

I was kerflummoxed by "quarter store" too.

Actually our city has been taken over by developers and techies so corner stores are pretty obsolete at the moment but I remember and liked them.

Wednesdays

(22,826 posts)
68. Yeah, but in the 1950's when he grew up, corner stores were ubiquitous.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:26 AM
Friday

But apparently not in his privileged neighborhood.

GiqueCee

(4,468 posts)
25. He probably...
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:20 AM
Friday

... misheard "corner store" when he was six, and, as with all things Trump, he never progressed beyond that age.
This petulant, malicious man-child is an imbecile, and a clear and present danger to America and the world.

Irish_Dem

(81,867 posts)
28. Good point, he thought people were saying "quarter" and never realized anything different.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:27 AM
Friday

GiqueCee

(4,468 posts)
30. Sadly...
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:31 AM
Friday

... it appears that he has painted himself into a corner store and can't find the exit.

displacedvermoter

(4,760 posts)
38. A high end five and dime?
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:57 AM
Friday

But yeah, he says things and uses phrases he makes up. Funny thing is, when he uses a made up in his sick brain phrase or word combo, and the next day Rubio, or Leavitt, or someone on Fox inserts the same weird word or phrase into a conversation.

They are a cult led by a syphilitic moron who doesn't know what a corner store is.

BumRushDaShow

(170,755 posts)
60. Peep Show!
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:45 AM
Friday

A "quarter" (25 cents) store.



I remember there was a whole strip where they were here in Philly, They eventually closed all that down and built the PA Convention Center.

yorkster

(3,889 posts)
47. A coiner store, that's the ticket!
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:21 AM
Friday

I think everything old is new again with him, so to speak. All this forgetting means brand new things everyday!

Wowee, pretty scary...

Irish_Dem

(81,867 posts)
73. Most people don't seem to care.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:32 PM
Friday

Makes no difference to them if POTUS is mentally ill and has dementia.

Irish_Dem

(81,867 posts)
108. Whatever is rattling around is not good.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:35 PM
Friday

I hope there are some adults in the room who can keep him from his worst impulses.

sarchasm

(1,314 posts)
46. There isn't one damn ounce of ethics in anything he says...
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:11 AM
Friday

...or the other thing for that matter.

bucolic_frolic

(55,437 posts)
3. "Corner store" is a term that's likely 150 years old
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 06:50 AM
Friday

Anyone who lived in a neighborhood in a city knew what a local grocer/convenience store was. Local. On the corner so it attracted traffic from 2 streets. Some of these grew into larger operations.

I didn't know groceries have become old-fashioned. Maybe we just say food.

Trueblue Texan

(4,539 posts)
24. He is so completely out of touch with the folks that pay for all the fun he is having.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:11 AM
Friday

What an utter imbecile. The rest of the world must be laughing their asses off when they're not preparing their defense systems for WWIII.

GiqueCee

(4,468 posts)
29. The Orange Anus...
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:28 AM
Friday

... has never bought a grocery in his life, let alone a bag of groceries. If you mentioned the admittedly archaic term, "green grocer" to him, he would say he'd heard of people who were white, black, brown, red, and even yellow, but never someone who was green! And the pitiful fuck would be serious.

GiqueCee

(4,468 posts)
117. We only have a supermarket...
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 08:48 AM
Saturday

... 13 miles away, but in rural Vermont only 13 miles means we're still neighbors. No green grocers anymore, though.

We've had warm, sunshiny days 2 days in a row! But we'll be punished for that come Monday; it's supposed to snow.

thesquanderer

(13,053 posts)
33. And he's from NYC, probably the place with more corner stores than anywhere else. AKA grocery stores. (n/t)
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:42 AM
Friday

3Hotdogs

(15,438 posts)
42. f you''ve driven through his neighborhood, Forest Hills, Queens... there are no corners stores.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:58 AM
Friday

dave99

(79 posts)
58. There are Corner Stores in Douglaston, Queens were it was dumped.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:37 AM
Friday

especially at the time it was bred 1950s, 1960s, 1970s

The shitstain has no mental capacity and should be shot dead by Secret Service, they did pledge an oath to The Constitution

Onthefly

(1,327 posts)
9. Really frustrating to get trapped into a corner store.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:11 AM
Friday

You end up with a dollar’s worth of penny candy.

Bluetus

(2,948 posts)
32. Wrong. It is a store that
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:35 AM
Friday

Has cornered the market on essentials like tooth paste and toilet paper.

I thought everybody knew that.

EYESORE 9001

(29,815 posts)
7. This phrase is so ingrained
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 06:56 AM
Friday

that a ‘corner store’ need not occupy an actual corner. Who ever sent a kid down to the middle-of-the-block store?

Squaredeal

(741 posts)
18. "These are simple folk. The salt of the earth..,
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:57 AM
Friday

You know. Morons,” Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles.

cstanleytech

(28,515 posts)
65. Welll. It's true as he's been bribed by many people and blackmailed many people.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:07 AM
Friday

So ya he's a man of the people.

mwmisses4289

(4,433 posts)
10. Just proudly showing off his ignorance.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:24 AM
Friday

Wonder how long it will be before he will claim he invented that word and claim that nobody ever heard it before?

AZ8theist

(7,465 posts)
13. "Twelve million small "FLIERS" paid ......
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:43 AM
Friday

He can't even read his own script.

DEMENTED, SENILE FUCKING IDIOT.

And the cackling hyenas in the audience that are laughing at his imbecility, thinking he's making a funny, are a fucking DISGRACE to his nation. They should be measuring him for a rubber room, not cheerfully egging him on......

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
Is WRONG with these fools??????

riversedge

(81,152 posts)
20. "Says a lot about the ignorance of this country that there are millions of people who look at this decrepit lying sack o
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:01 AM
Friday


‪Senseidai2547❌👑‬
‪@senseidai.bsky.social‬
· 14m
Says a lot about the ignorance of this country that there are millions of people who look at this decrepit lying sack of shit and say, yup, that's my guy!

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal
‪Aaron Rupar‬
‪@atrupar.com‬
· 10h
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?"
0:16
0:00 / 0:16

Says a lot about the ignorance of this country that there are millions of people who look at this decrepit lying sack of shit and say, yup, that's my guy!

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal

Senseidai2547❌👑 (@senseidai.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T11:45:06.224Z

Easterncedar

(6,380 posts)
22. That is the dementia advancing
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:04 AM
Friday

His vocabulary has become smaller. He repeats the same phrases and uses them inappropriately. The pope is soft on crime?

Martin Eden

(15,729 posts)
31. He lacks inhibition, which often proves his ignorance.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:33 AM
Friday

He believes he's on top of the world, the greatest and most powerful, so he says whatever comes into that pathological brain of his. Especially when giving a speech in front of what he assumes is his faithful flock, he's relaxed and confident and starts "weaving" random thoughts about poisonous snakes in Peru, or cheap sharpie pens, or a situation where he'd have to choose between getting electrocuted or eaten by a shark.

It is a form of insanity, but not dementia. It's a combination of giant ego and delusion, and it's getting worse as he ages. Subconsciously he may know he's in trouble politically, but his ego won't admit that so he becomes more disconnected from reality. Rambling off on bizarre tangents makes him feel good, but this is not dementia. Someone suffering from that disease could not ramble for eight full minutes about poisonous snakes, then come back to the purpose of the occasion for his speech.

Plus, he's really not very intelligent. He's a talented con man and pathological liar with no moral compass, confidently and repeatedly asserting lies to establish or reinforce false narratives that millions of voters have already been programmed to believe from sources like Fox News.

He never bothered to read or study or learn about subjects a president should know when making critical decisions. He prepared for his political career by watching a lot of television, getting the pulse of voters who were there just waiting for a con man unconstrained by the norms and traditions that still bound his Republican opponents in the 2016 presidential primary. He pushed hard on the pent up buttons of grievance, liberating the unfiltered ignorance and bigotry of those who felt repressed, and they absolutely love for it.

All the lies and false narratives are now the foundation of what has become the Party Of Trump. But a foundation detached from reality is bound to crumble, and we're beginning to see Trump crumble along with it.

EuterpeThelo

(406 posts)
36. The only reason
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:47 AM
Friday

I don't wish to see him both electrocuted and eaten by a shark is that I wouldn't want to put the poor shark through that. Oh, and also because it would be too quick.

Martin Eden

(15,729 posts)
52. The cruelest punishment for Diaper Donald
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:36 AM
Friday

Last edited Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:32 AM - Edit history (1)

Would be to rot in a prison cell with no special privileges, denied his cell phone, rejected by his former cult, and totally ignored by the media.

EuterpeThelo

(406 posts)
62. But
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:50 AM
Friday

with READ ONLY access to social media so he could see people mocking him without the ability to respond. He must also be stripped of all his ill-gotten gains and not allowed makeup/hair products.

mgardener

(2,379 posts)
34. He grew up
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:45 AM
Friday

In a wealthy section of Queens.
I bet they didn't have corner stores there.

But a real estate mongral that doesn't know what a corner store was?
I doubt that very very much
How many did he raze to but up his buildings?

Either he has memory issues or he is lying.
Who does not read a speech before he gives it?

Shows how out of touch he is with the American people.

Diamond_Dog

(40,778 posts)
35. I doubt he has ever set foot in any kind of store that sells groceries.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:46 AM
Friday

It’s such a hideous joke that MAGAs insist he is a “man of the people.”

SergeStorms

(20,689 posts)
37. The hero of the common MAGAt.....
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:55 AM
Friday

has apparently never shopped for anything in his entire life. And those suckers actually thought he was one of them?

eppur_se_muova

(42,128 posts)
55. Someone please work the word "bodega" into his next speech.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:55 AM
Friday

That aneurysm ain't gonna blow itself. Well, not soon enough.

QueerDuck

(1,841 posts)
56. He'll flub that worse than the time he grunted "yo-smite... yo-sah-mite" (for Yosemite)
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:13 AM
Friday

Last edited Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:27 PM - Edit history (1)

A bodega would be sounded-out as "bod-EGG-a" or "boe-DEE-gia"

raccoon

(32,426 posts)
61. I can't stand Trump, yall know that, but I've never heard the term "corner store" before. Must be a regional term.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 10:48 AM
Friday

BumRushDaShow

(170,755 posts)
64. It's an "urban" term and he was born and raised in the most populated city in the U.S.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:03 AM
Friday

I know growing up, on my residential street in Philly, the intersections of the bigger streets were zoned "commercial" and there were a couple "corner stores", one on each corner, including a drug store (as we called them back then), a deli, a dry cleaner, and then there was a gas station.

Wednesdays

(22,826 posts)
66. Outside of campaign photo ops,
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:19 AM
Friday

...The Felon hasn't been in a store -- ANY store -- to shop, in more than 60 years. If ever.

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,683 posts)
74. MaddowBlog-Baffled by his own 'corner store' reference, Trump's problems with groceries persist
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:39 PM
Friday

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.

BumRushDaShow

(170,755 posts)
87. It's like the Poppy Bush revelation
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 02:30 PM
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and Rmoney's -



And we even had Oz join the crew at a made-up name for the grocery store he visited here in PA -

nuxvomica

(14,141 posts)
76. In a writing workshop, I reviewed works by college seniors
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:52 PM
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One had written the start of a novel, set in the 1920s, and was using a lot of anachronisms, which were fun to identify. There were frequent references in the text to a "convenience store" which I noted was not a popular term in the 1920s and the author should use "corner store" or "variety store" instead. Even though the store was in the middle of a block it could still be called a "corner store" because the name indicates a small local store, one that could be "just around the corner."

FakeNoose

(41,955 posts)
79. Plus, I don't think the idea of franchises had been invented by 1920
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:10 PM
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There might have been a Sears Roebuck & Co. back then, but the Sears stores weren't spread all over the Midwest as would eventually happen later on. All retail was local in the 1920s, but the kids don't understand that.

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

tonekat

(2,550 posts)
84. Any thing he thinks, goes out the mouth
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:52 PM
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I've never seen anyone with such a lack of impulse control. You don't have to (and it's better if you don't) say every word you think out loud, but the moron never understood tact or self-discipline.

IronLionZion

(51,423 posts)
94. It's where we purchase corners for buildings, of course. Unless it's a round building with no corners.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 04:46 PM
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SidneyR

(216 posts)
96. They're so freaking insanely rich they don't know the basics of shopping.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 05:04 PM
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Other people, "the little people" do that for them. They have no idea.

Dave Id

(297 posts)
100. Trump has probably never 'shopped' in a store for himself or anyone
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 06:33 PM
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He's been catered to his entire life, having people go out to get him whatever he wants.

Jilly_in_VA

(14,475 posts)
103. I'll bet
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:05 PM
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he doesn't know what a BODEGA is either! Hell, I live in Virginia and I know what a bodega is!

Polybius

(21,994 posts)
109. While I know what a corner store, I never heard of a quarter store
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:22 PM
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I know what a quarter store is, but I’ve never heard it described. A corner store. Who the hell wrote that, please?”


Is that what a dollar store used to be called back in the 70s? Before my time.

BumRushDaShow

(170,755 posts)
110. What I posted upthread - the "Peep Shows"
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:33 PM
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A "quarter" (25 cents) store.



We had the "Red Light District" where all that stuff (including the "XXX Rated" movie theaters) were and it wasn't far from what was dubbed "Skid Row".

czarjak

(13,664 posts)
112. My Congressperson Jodey Arrington wrote TOBBBA!
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:12 PM
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So proud, too! The Donald even gave him an ATTA-BOY when it was signed too! Worm-Turning-Time, JoJo?

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