Trump Just Showed That He Has No Clue How Grocery Stores Work

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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/24/trump-just-showed-that-he-has-no-clue-how-grocery-stores-work.html

Posted on Thu, Jan 24th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Trump Just Showed That He Has No Clue How Grocery Stores Work


Trump expressed the belief that grocery stores are giving government employees food on credit during the shutdown. This is, of course, not true.

Trump said, “I haven’t heard the statement, but I do understand, perhaps he should have said it differently. Local people know who they are when people go for groceries and everything else, they will work along. I know banks are working along. If you have mortgages, the folks collecting the interest and all of those things, they work along, and that is what happens in time like this. They know the people, they have been dealing with them for years. The grocery store, and I think that is probably what he meant, but I have not seen his statement, no, he has done a great job I will tell you that.”

Link to tweet

Trump doesn’t understand how grocery stores work in 2019

Trump thinks that it is 1952 and everyone shops at a neighborhood market where the owner knows you and gives you a line of credit during hard times. This is not reality. In the real world, people shop at big box grocery chains where their names aren’t known. The store is a corporation, not a corner neighborhood market, and they don’t care if Donald Trump has taken away your paycheck because he wants a wall. They will not give you free food, or a line of credit. If you can’t afford groceries, they’ll direct you to the local food bank, and ask you to leave the store.

The president isn’t just out of touch with working people. He is out of touch with reality.

[spanone]

1. trump has probably never been in a grocery store.

[malaise]

2. He just spewing the usual BS

Both he and his daddy kicked tenants out for less. How does this ruthless corrupt scum lord paint his fellow capitalists as philanthropists.

[suffragette]

19. Important point. Trump even tried kicking out paying tenants. He's spewing BS and he knows it.

[yardwork]

32. I agree. I just posted the same downthread. He's lying.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. 25 million lower middle class Americans who support rump just nodded their heads

and said "sure, I believe that"

We are a badly badly broken society, too many of us are very dumb, very racist.

[Kahuna7]

4. Like in the 50s and 60s with the corner grocers. He never heard of supermarkets? nt

[Lucinda]

5. FFS

So clueless...

[John Fante]

6. For someone who serves up word salads on an hourly basis

you'd think he'd understand how grocery stores work. Moron.

[hedda_foil]

7. The last time his mom took him to the grocery store was 1950.

He threw himself on the floor, kicking and screaming for so long that the grocer told her never to bring him again.

[The Genealogist]

26. he's the kid who...

after knocking over the gumball machine and filling the aisles with gumballs, would demolish a stack of cans of corn on sale.

[hedda_foil]

29. He unwound all over he toilet paper and teepeed the store with it!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

8. Just head on down to Godsey's General Store

old Ike will square you away. Just pay him at the end of the month. Of course there's always payday loans. That industry was a big supporter of Trump. The average pay day loan has a 400% APR. That seems fair.

[world wide wally]

9. Right.

I know how close I am to our mortgage interest manager. Like old buddies.

[yardwork]

33. He works with you on the interest payments, right?

Trump is lying. He knows how this works.

[world wide wally]

40. No shit!

Trump is a treasure trove of pure bullshit

[unblock]

10. he thinks everyone can get away with being a deadbeat like him.

oh, just don't pay your mortgage! no problem! the bank will work with you!

in real life, people can and have had houses foreclosed for being delinquent for tiny, tiny amounts. literally a few cents, i think.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. your memory and Mnuchin

Trump treasury secretary pick Steven Mnuchin’s bank foreclosed on 90-year-old woman who owed 27 cents

[unblock]

13. yes! thanks! donnie's statement is even more absurd given his own cabinet official's involvement.

[bdamomma]

15. Mnuchin

he's another Russian asset, just lifted the sanctions on Deripaska and he went merrily on his way.

[Leghorn21]

12. "Banks are working along, the mortgage place is working along, the cable companies are working

along, Walmart is working along, the dentist, the eye doctor, the foot doctors are working along, the car note people are working along, the pharmacy is working along, the gas station is working along, everybody is working along, so what is the fucking problem, people??!”

- dumbfuck donnie

[Leith]

14. He thinks you have to have ID to buy groceries

So this nut didn't fall far from that tree.

[rgbecker]

22. Just one more amazing inconsistancy.

One day you need an ID to buy groceries, the next, the grocer gives you all you need on credit.

Please take him away as soon as possible.

[tblue37]

44. And if the grocer has known the customers for years, then why would they need IDs? nt

[rzemanfl]

16. Fuck you Drumpf, you Nazi. n/t

[Initech]

17. Forget it, he's rolling.

[blogslut]

18. Note that he lied repeatedly in that answer.

He was asked about Wilber's statement. He said over and over that he hadn't heard it. So, why would he interpret something he hadn't heard?

[underpants]

21. I was thinking that as I heard it on the radio.

He hadn't heard it...yeah right. Then, as you point out, he goes into an entire defense of it. Rambling and incoherent sure but hey that's his schtick.

I loved the bit about the wall keeping West Virginia safe. Holy crap! Is he planning on putting up a wall between the Virginia's!?!?! Boy the "energy pipeline" people are not going to be happy about that.

[Retrograde]

28. Why? Because he's an idiot

who gets off on the sound of his own voice.

There’s an actual corner store near me, and one of the clerks knows my taste in beers. They don’t extend store credit , though (they do take credit cards), and I wouldn’t expect them to: they have to pay their employees, suppliers, creditors, utilities, taxes, insurance - and somehow I don’t think those would be as patient as Trump thinks.

[akraven]

20. My neighbor, furloughed Air Traffic Contol,

had to hit our local food bank or be unable to eat.

I'd love to know what stores the orangemaggot in OUR White House could recommend, the dipshit.

[ansible]

23. Fuck rich people, this isn't just a Trump thing

They're just so fucking clueless and out of touch with how it's like to survive being poor and barely earning anything

[UpInArms]

24. Ummm .... no

Whenever I get to checkout ... somehow they always expect money before I take my groceries home ... and I live in a small community where everyone knows everyone

[GulfCoast66]

25. He thinks people who pay their debts are suckers.

It’s worked for him. But most people have this thing called ethics. Something he has no understanding of.

[Maeve]

27. My folks ran a grocery store like that

They went out of business over forty years ago....

[dlk]

30. Grocery Stores Typically Run on Very Thin Margins

Most of them really aren’t in a position to extend credit. One would think all of the Republican financial wizards would already know this.

[yardwork]

31. It's important to remember that Trump was a vicious landlord.

Trump, his father, and his son in law Jared were and are extremely punitive landlords who were intolerant of late payments. Records show that they were far more aggressive than average in their markets for kicking people out of their homes due to late payments.

Please remember this in the context of Trump's tweets. He knows how things work. TRUMP IS LYING.

[suffragette]

35. Exactly so, yardwork. He's lying his ass off.

[TeamPooka]

34. Trump thinks America is Green Acres and people can just work out a deal with Mr Haney

[pansypoo53219]

36. next they can just barter for food i am sure.

[tblue37]

45. Remember when a Republican suggested people could pay their doctor with chickens? nt

[mastermind]

37. he probably seen to many tv shows , westerns where the guy says put in on my tab. nt

[scarletwoman]

38. It's obvious that the only grocery stores he's familiar with are in old black & white movies. nt

[Roy Rolling]

39. Bush 1980s

GHW Bush went to a supermarket and was astonished they used scanners. This was 10 years after wide use, or so.

It was a pivotal moment in his career, forever branding him as out-of-touch.

Trump's statement is the same cluelessness---a rich guy who never went grocery shopping for himself or family. Working people can recognize a phony when they see one.

[Blue Owl]

41. Shut the fuck up Donny

n/t

[B Stieg]

42. Don't know about grocery stores...

but the only time I saw tRump up close was in a Walmart on the NJ/PA border.
With Ivana in tow, he was growling at Don Jr for not having bought notebooks before returning to boarding school (Hill) in the fall of 1998.
His stretch limo was parked right in front of the doors to the store.

[Wounded Bear]

43. Asking stores to give away free shit is not very Republican-sounding...

Just sayin'

[Mr. Quackers]

46. That fat fuck hasn't been hungry one single day in his filthy life

Maybe we can get old man Vince, dig him up from his grave, make it 1972, and he can reopen his corner store in the old neighborhood.