Trump claims picture ID is required to buy groceries

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Tuesday made the claim that a photo ID is required to buy groceries as part of his argument for introducing stricter voter ID laws.

“You know if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card,” he said. “You need ID.”

The president made the comment while speaking at a campaign rally in Florida in support of GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis’ gubernatorial bid. It came as he was pushing for stronger voter ID laws, pointing to other instances where an American would need to show identification.

Many on social media pointed out that picture IDs are not in fact required to buy groceries.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399806-trump-falsely-claims-id-is-required-to-buy-groceries

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[marylandblue]

1. His picture is behind the cashier with the caption "don't take his checks"

[Grasswire2]

17. Hahahaha! nt

[FSogol]

18. LOL, DUzy!

[madaboutharry]

24. That's good.

DU members are all comedians!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

46. His picture out to be in the Post office

with the other nine most wanted.

[markses66]

47. ROFL

[trixie2]

53. ROFLMAO

[Docreed2003]

55. Lmao...truth

[Jedi Guy]

63. You win the internets!

[CreekDog]

70. .

[ck4829]

75. LOL

[underpants]

76. 😆

[olegramps]

86. And as ridiculous as it is his followers will believe it. Sad, Sad, Sad.

[dchill]

2. And, SO FAR, you don't need picture ID to be disgusted.

[GReedDiamond]

3. Fucking shit for brains asshole...nt

[forgotmylogin]

84. He's never set foot in a grocery store. (n/t)

[sandensea]

4. This is worse than Bush's supermarket scanner gaffe in '92

His campaign handlers dragged the effete candidate to a grocery store in an effort to portray him as an "everyday" person.

Everything went well, until Bush got to the checkout stand. When he saw the clerk scanning his groceries through (including, as I recall, pork rinds), he was amazed that that's how it was done.

[braddy]

7. The H.W, Bush story was fake.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/maybe-im-amazed/

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Snopes did a whole convoluted pretzel twist to soften what was shown on video on the news

It's not "fake".

They may try to re-characterize his perception of the demo but all you have to do is look at the video, which was shown on the news and discussed in print who knows how many times back then.

[braddy]

35. He wasn't even at a supermarket, he was at the National Grocers Association conference and the

demonstration of the new technology was given by Robert Graham, an executive with the NCR Corporation.

"Newsweek screened the same tape and reported: “Bush acts curious and polite, but hardly amazed.” Michael Duffy of Time magazine called the whole thing “completely insignificant as a news event. It was prosaic, polite talk, and Bush is expert at that. If anything, he was bored.” And Bob Graham of NCR, who demonstrated the scanner technology for President Bush, said, ”It’s foolish to think the president doesn’t know anything about grocery stores. He knew exactly what I was talking
about.”

[JenniferJuniper]

40. Bush likely never shopped at a supermarket in his life

And scanners were hardly new then. I was a supermarket cashier using them in 1982 and I'm pretty sure they weren't new then either.

[braddy]

42. It was not a normal scanner, it was new technology at a trade show, Snopes debunks the myth.

[BumRushDaShow]

68. No one said he was "at a supermarket"

The media knew that this was a demo and where it took place and if you had watched the clip I provided, they said where he was. But the point was that with the assertion that the tech had been out there AT a number of supermarkets already at that time, then it should not have come as a surprise to him regarding the shift from manual registers to scanner registers (and the stories at the time indicated - even in the snopes link, that he had been shown SEVERAL types of units).

But as a multi-generation millionaire, his family has "the help" to do the shopping.

I remember back in the early '70s in school being shown the "new" UPC codes and what they were going to be used for. It would be a couple decades before the registers would start appearing locally here in Philly.

[braddy]

85. Snopes debunks the fake story, he wasn't amazed, it wasn't just a normal scanner and the

reporter who started the myth wasn't even there.

From Snopes "Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn’t even been present at the grocers’ convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face and didn’t find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn’t being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes."

[BumRushDaShow]

88. All you have to do is LOOK at the video

You can keep trying to justify this and it wasn't just that one tech that read "mangled bar codes" that he was shown.

[braddy]

89. Snopes debunks that silly video which is part of the fake myth in action, it shows nothing, the

voiceover is part of how the myth was created.

[LanternWaste]

90. It's of course, important you dig in on something irreverent to the OP.

Narratives need particular directions to work, even if they are inconsequential to the over-arching point as they allow us the pretense of our innocence as we justify the particular directions our narratives consistently take.

[BumRushDaShow]

92. It's not a "fake video"

It's a video of a photo op.

I am a big fan of Snopes but sometimes Snopes does some wild twisting and turning and equivocating - including accepting obvious garbage as "somewhat true" or "mostly false" (leaving it up in the air) or "true and false" and other such characterizations. You don't have to even listen to any "voice over" (there are other sources of the video without that) to see what is before your eyes.

[Ligyron]

5. He's outdone even George H.W. Bush.

Congrats Comrade!

[Snellius]

6. He's always high as a kite when he tweaks out at these rallies.

You can't take him too seriously. Until you realize he's like that at 3 in the morning when he's tweaking his tweets and begin to realize that he's always like that.

[roamer65]

8. I think he does a few lines before the rallies.

[Snellius]

21. I think it's meth. Seriously. Egomaniac, sex-addict, psychopathic, lying, paranoid

If you know the signs. Wait until he starts scratching his arms to get rid of the bugs crawling under his skin. Counter indications: No weight loss though. Otherwise, all the personality traits.

[idahoblue]

29. He acts like

He goes up on coke and down on Ambien.

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. I could agree on the uppers, but not the Ambien.

That stuff keeps you zonked for 6-8 hours, as in groggy and uncoordinated.
He claims he only sleeps 4 hours a night. Of course he might be lying.

But he does have a hisotry of using "diet pills". Many people who know him claim he does not drink or use drugs.
Prescriptions are usually not considered "drugs" in that context.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

51. Appears to be Adderal to me.

But then again, I'm no Dr. I DID however stay at a Holiday Inn Express Last night tho.

[videohead5]

9. I bet he's

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Never been in a grocery store.

[leftieNanner]

11. Bingo!

You nailed it right there!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Yep

He obviously eats a lot of groceries but has never had to move his massive girth into a grocery store.

[AdamGG]

41. Never a point in his life when there weren't servants doing that task

But, he's just a regular guy who loves to shovel coal and drive trucks.

[yonder]

56. Exactly right! He's such a joke. ID for groceries, give me a break.

I'm betting there's a whole host of everyday things most folks do without second thought that he has no experience with. Remember the kid mowing the WH lawn? tRump was far more clueless than that kid.

How about:

Shopping for anything.
Calling the doctor/mechanic/who else for an appointment.
Dealing with a health/car/home insurance company as a client.
Putting together a kite for his kid(s).
Being present (in the same room) for the birth of any of his kids.
Adjusting the chain on a bicycle.
Picking an apple off a tree. Then eating it.

Hell, this list could go on and on. I'm sure he's always had "people" to do things for him.

Oh, just remembered, from the Cohen tape: "Get me a coke, please!"

[hunter]

64. Trumps putting together Ikea furniture...

... especially as husband and wife.

Come to think of it, that would be a great SNL skit.

Who will survive?

[yonder]

66. Pretty funny. The visuals for a SNL skit made me laugh.

Trump and IKEA wouldn't stand a chance. Melania, with a Slovenian mind trick or two, would win hands down.

[ck4829]

72. LOL

[GopherGal]

96. Why would he buy anything in a grocery store?

I'm sure he eats only produce Melania grows in her garden.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Does he even know what groceries are??

Someone should ask him.

[meow2u3]

12. I never had to show ID just to go food shopping

But I did have to show ID when I used my credit card--because I wrote "Please see ID" next to my signature.

[Butterflylady]

30. If you write a check, you need ID.

Even for groceries.

[xor]

48. Except only a tiny percentage of the population still writes checks for stuff like that

I can't even remember of the last time I've seen anyone in front of me writing a check. What a silly thing to say... At the very least he should have said "to write a check".

[Dr Hobbitstein]

58. I haven't written a check in 10 years.

Hell, I don't even own any. And I am not in the minority on this one. About 70% of Americans write fewer than 3 checks a month.

[ck4829]

98. I've never written a check... like ever though

[Mrs. Overall]

13. Does he show an ID when he buys his Big Macs and KFC?

I think that's the extent of his "groceries."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. You think he would actually buy his own fast food?

Not unless he wants a Spit Mac.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Maybe he went to the 7-11 to buy an orange

and thought it was him?

[msongs]

16. while he stage his events the repubs are pillaging the nation nt

[rurallib]

19. He's talking Moscow here folks

you know - the home office

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Says a man who has never bought groceries in his life. Probably

has never been in a store that sells groceries.

[John Gruff]

23. His supporters will believe him

They’re zombies.

[kacekwl]

61. Guarantee those dummies at the rally

Will be pulling out their drivers license at the shop and go tomorrow.

[ck4829]

73. They will

[ck4829]

99. They do

[TexasProgresive]

25. A picture of Franklin or Grant still works.

[Arkansas Granny]

26. I wish someone would ask him when he last shopped for groceries.

What a doofus.

[Afromania]

27. This dude probably hasn't been in a supermarket a day in this sorry ass life.

[regnaD kciN]

28. You don't have to have a government ID card to buy groceries...YET...

Could this be something Trump is about to propose? Hmmm...

And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark — the name of the beast or the number of its name.

-- Revelation 13:16-17

[Dennis Donovan]

31. In MAGA America, groceries ID YOU!

[reACTIONary]

44. +10 nm

[markses66]

49. Haha!

[ck4829]

74. Good question

[blugbox]

95. And the number of its name

Is sewn on all its shirt cuffs...

[djacq]

32. Orange Clown promoting Voter Supression!

1. Orange Clown most likely never shopped in a grocery store EVER in his life.

2. Orange Clown is a racist.

[idahoblue]

33. If you live in a small town

You can go years without showing an ID. I requested an ATM card for an account at a bank I rarely go into. I also cashed a check from a friend made out to me. As I left with ATM card in hand, I realized she never asked to see my ID. I just showed her a deposit slip with the account number on it.

[pazzyanne]

34. How would he know?

The groceries this man has bought in his lifetime you could put on a postage stamp! Doubt he even knows what a grocery store looks like on the outside much less on the inside.

[apkhgp]

37. "We don't need no stinkin' ID"

Hats off to Alfonso Bedoya.

[DallasNE]

38. Trump May Have A Goal

To make food a privilege but we're not there - yet.

[Botany]

39. Signs and symptoms of late stage syphilis include:

Signs and symptoms of late stage syphilis include:

difficulty coordinating muscle movements
paralysis
numbness
gradual blindness
dementia

[yuiyoshida]

43. HE has obviously never bought groceries

in his entire life.

[dalton99a]

50. Such a stupid liar

[dflprincess]

52. Not since people stopped writing checks. nt

[brush]

54. Such a lying liar. If that was the case, how have all the folks who...

don't have a picture ID sufficient for voting bought food for all these years?

Such an orange, lying pustule, imposter president.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

57. Dear lord. Don't those around him ever bother to tell

him when he gets stuff so incredibly wrong?

They should.

[Spartacus101]

62. Nope...they just say yes...

...and sink low, and collect the big dough. The pattern is all over history...that's why so many tyrants stay in power, they surround themselves with sycophants who, in turn, benefit by keeping a crackpot in power for so long.

If they challenged Marcus Crassus the Orange, out the door they'd go.

One of the first thing strongmen do when they get power is fire anyone who disagrees with them.

God, I hope he doesn't take to singing, like Nero did...the guy shut his audiences up for hours with the Praetorian Guard at the doors so they couldn't leave. We have reports of women giving childbirth during his "performances" because of that, and people feigning heart attacks to get out.

Totally bananas.

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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."

-Mahatma Gandhi

[underpants]

77. Nope and he wants more of these rallies

Read a piece on Huff Po this morning - Trump wants more of these rallies before the midterm. He's just sure he can turn the tide himself.

[SWBTATTReg]

59. What an idiot...not much else to say...pathetic

[moondust]

60. It's good to be the idle rich.

Inherit millions and you'll soon find out how much power that gives you: you can have anything you want without ever having to lift a finger to work or learn anything or develop any abilities. Even become President without knowing a damn thing! Just tell 'em you're rich and they'll think you must know stuff! Ain't Murca great?!!!

[ck4829]

100. Apparently

[TeamPooka]

65. Tomorrow cashiers at Piggly Wigglys across the South will be carding thier customers.

[Cha]

67. Too STUPID to be

a MF doorknob.. so what does Russia do? Rigs him in with their Enablers to be MF potus.

[Achilleaze]

69. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief lies again

so out of touch with reality...sad

[ck4829]

71. Insane

[Freethinker65]

78. I hope he signs an EO prohibiting it

Then takes credit for stopping something that did not exist. His crowd would eat it up.

[bcool]

79. ID required for SNAP purchases?

Could he have been referring to people buying groceries with a SNAP card? With the Repub obsession with people on welfare, maybe he was referring to that?

Of course, if that’s the case, in his usual convoluted way of speaking he forgot to include that little detail.

[left-of-center2012]

82. "... people buying groceries with a SNAP card?"

Nope. Just takes punching into the keypad a four digit code, like a debit card.

[Runningdawg]

80. Needing an ID to buy food

I think the Bible said something about that, called it the mark of the beast if I am correct. We should encourage all the cult members to burn their IDs just to be safe

[Nitram]

81. He sounds like Bush the Elder, who had never seen a supermarket cashier's scanner.

These people have never lifter a finger for a job as menial as buying food.

[displacedtexan]

83. Trump's head looks seriously swollen. Like steroids swollen, not botox.

The swelling looks too even to be from botox injections. No smile lines or chin droop at l. It looks inflated.

Plus, Billy Bob and Bubba on Trump's left don't look like they're being sufficiently entertained by the reality tv star.

[zanana1]

87. OH NO!

My Spaghetti O's are illegal!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

91. From the Associated Press:

Trump at rally makes false claim on photo IDs for groceries

Ken Thomas and Jill Colvin
Associated Press

July 31, 2018, 9:22 PM TAMPA, FLA.
....

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about when the billionaire president last bought groceries or anything else himself. Photo IDs are required for certain purchases, such as alcohol, cigarettes or cold medicine.
....

[Cold War Spook]

93. I hope they don't live in a state like NC.

I don't know what they check to get a star. My license says "not for federal identification". I probably couldn't by groceries in a red state with that if they really checked your license.

[haele]

94. Only if you're shopping at a military commessary and not in uniform.

Other than that, very few retail places ask for a picture I.D. for purchases under, say, $500 or $1,000...? And those are only if you're paying with check or credit card. Just to make sure you were the person on the credit card.

Recently, I had to show a picture I.D to buy or rent a car. Other than that, or when I shop on base, never.

Haele

[ck4829]

97. Has Trump ever been in a grocery store before?

[Deb]

101. He is confusing Sam's Club with a grocery store.

Such limited American experiences.

[Tracer]

102. My grocery store, which sells beer and wine...

... occasionally gets strict with checking IDs --- probably because they were caught accidentally selling to a minor.

So now, if I buy wine in the store, I have to go through the rigamarole of showing my licence --- even though I am OBVIOUSLY over 21.

The checkout people (who have known me for years) roll their eyes at having to do this every time.