MOUNT POCONO, PA—Delivering a highly anticipated speech about the state of the economy, President Donald Trump doubled down this week on his claim that groceries were a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. “They have this new word, they’re calling it ‘groceries,’ but you can ask anybody—everybody knows food comes from restaurants,” said Trump, who claimed that […]
  • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That story is completely unbelievable. He would never be that polite to a reporter.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    92·
    2 days ago

    He was JOKING! You Libtards DONT understand Humor!

    -Republicans LITERALLY who Do Their Own Research!

  • pedz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    According to him there is also another “new” word called affordability.

    “They use the word ‘affordability,’ and that’s their only word. They say, ‘Affordability,’ and everyone says, ‘Oh, that must mean Trump has high prices.’ No, our prices are coming down tremendously,” Trump said. “They have a new word. They always have a hoax. The new word is ‘affordability,’ so they look at the camera and they say this election is all about affordability.”

    EDIT: I ate the Onion, thinking the groceries thing was real. However the quote I pasted is real.

  • hope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s an old-fashioned but beautiful word for a bag with different things in it.

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The onion continues to delve deeper and lower to find the humor ahead of where these clowns are, but when you look at what it takes to now establish the normal basis agsinst which the punchline lands, it’s so fucking depressing.