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Trump’s strange ‘groceries’ remark draws swift mockery: ‘I’ll be back with the victuals!’
President Donald Trump brought his fascination with the term "groceries" with him to the Middle East on Thursday.
During a trip this week, Trump told the president of the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, it's an old-fashioned word that "means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term, but it's an old-fashioned sound, but groceries are down."
The obsession with the word sparked confusion and mockery from those online who saw the statement.
"What ... what are the youths calling groceries these days?" joked Josh Chafetz, professor of law and politics at Georgetown.
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Author and former NFL player Chris Kluwe quipped, "Told my wife I was going to the grocery store for groceries and she asked why I was using that strange word and when I would be back with the victuals."
Former DOJ appointee Eric Columbus recalled, "In Trump’s first term he repeatedly insisted you need ID to buy groceries. Which was weird, but unlike now he never said the word 'groceries' was old-fashioned or anything."
Assistant professor in philosophy, Dr. Keith Wilson, commented on Trump's fascination with the word "is because Trump has never had to shop for groceries in his life, so he finds it an exotic concept."
Rolling Stone politics reporter Asawin Suebsaeng commented, "The Trump groceries things is an example of why he’s such a historic figure, you’re not getting this anywhere else, no other member of the trump clan, no other 'heir' apparent to the maga and gop throne, no influencer or conservative cable news hanger on; nobody. It rocks when JD Vance tries to sell himself as 'I’m Trump but I did the reading in school,' as if that is a thing voters want and as if those two things don’t conflict."
"For the life of me I will never understand why his mental deterioration isn't headline news every single day," remarked historian Heather Cox Richardson.
Anthropologist and archaeologist John Hoopes replied, "Trump grew up hearing his grandmother talk about 'groceries,' but his parents never troubled themselves with that stuff."
"The single thing I am most confounded with about Trump is why he thinks the word groceries is something people stopped saying in 1937," said influencer and podcaster Brendel.
"Has anyone heard of this word 'groceries' Trump keeps using? Is he demented?" asked Dan O'Sullivan.
