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

[BumRushDaShow]

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.”

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[Irish_Dem]

1. He says he knows what a quarter store is. What is that?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Maybe an inflated "Five and Dime"??

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

But really, don't know.

[Irish_Dem]

21. This is what I think. He was thinking Five and Dime.

Which goes way back in time.

[wnylib]

51. Maybe he was trying to picture an office with

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]

53. He would probably think a store in one corner of the room is a gift shop?

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

He couldn't picture it.

[FakeNoose]

75. I'm a few years younger than Chump, and I remember "dime stores" from the 1950s

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]

77. Two things: Dementia and his entire life with servants.

The idea of shopping and stores are foreign to him.

[Dixiegrrrl]

91. We called it the 10 cent store in the mid-50s, in the Pac. NW.

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]

80. Mr. ShitsInHisPants is part of the privileged elite.

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. Yes steals, not shops.

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

[magicarpet]

82. Indeed.. Stealing is the source of all his acquisitions. He has little need to go shopping like regular folk..

[Irish_Dem]

83. He basically takes what he wants.

No one seems to stop him.

[LisaM]

49. That must be it.

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]

68. Yeah, but in the 1950's when he grew up, corner stores were ubiquitous.

But apparently not in his privileged neighborhood.

[GiqueCee]

25. He probably...

... 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]

28. Good point, he thought people were saying "quarter" and never realized anything different.

[GiqueCee]

30. Sadly...

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

[displacedvermoter]

40. Outstanding!

[displacedvermoter]

38. A high end five and dime?

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.

[Irish_Dem]

45. Maybe it is a kinky sex shop?

Who knows with that guy.
He is a psychopath.

[BumRushDaShow]

60. Peep Show!

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.

[Irish_Dem]

63. Exactly what he means. Peep shown for a quarter.

[ECL213]

43. It's where you buy bitcoins and other types of rare coins.

[yorkster]

47. A coiner store, that's the ticket!

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

Wowee, pretty scary...

[BlueKota]

71. Anybody who still believes he is cognitively okay

Is not cognitively okay themselves.

[Irish_Dem]

73. Most people don't seem to care.

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

[C_U_L8R]

2. Next time, try Bodega

That will really tongue-tie the orange idiot.

[Squaredeal]

17. Too ethic.

[sarchasm]

46. There isn't one damn ounce of ethics in anything he says...

...or the other thing for that matter.

[yorkster]

48. And we know he's ethically challenged.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. "Corner store" is a term that's likely 150 years old

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]

24. He is so completely out of touch with the folks that pay for all the fun he is having.

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]

29. The Orange Anus...

... 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.

[thesquanderer]

33. And he's from NYC, probably the place with more corner stores than anywhere else. AKA grocery stores. (n/t)

[3Hotdogs]

42. f you''ve driven through his neighborhood, Forest Hills, Queens... there are no corners stores.

[dave99]

58. There are Corner Stores in Douglaston, Queens were it was dumped.

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

[Intractable]

4. A corner store is, obviously, a store that sells corners. D'uh!

Maybe some types of T-brackets.

[Onthefly]

9. Really frustrating to get trapped into a corner store.

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

[ECL213]

44. Oh no, I have painted myself into a corner store.

[Onthefly]

86. You really got yourself in a pickle barrel.

[Bluetus]

32. Wrong. It is a store that

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

I thought everybody knew that.

[Blues Heron]

6. He is demented

[EYESORE 9001]

7. This phrase is so ingrained

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

[Harker]

8. He's a man of the people.

The clueless ones.

[twodogsbarking]

14. Perfect

[Squaredeal]

18. "These are simple folk. The salt of the earth..,

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

[cstanleytech]

65. Welll. It's true as he's been bribed by many people and blackmailed many people.

So ya he's a man of the people.

[Harker]

67. Yes, he's also man of the people who give him what he wants.

[mwmisses4289]

10. Just proudly showing off his ignorance.

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

[Blues Heron]

11. Its like a corner B2 bomber, except its a store

This is the pinhead with the codes

[Ray Bruns]

12. The man is an imbecile.

[AZ8theist]

13. "Twelve million small "FLIERS" paid ......

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]

15. Not long ago Trump said the same about groceries!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. FYI, he also doesn't know what a "days work" means or feels like.

[frogmarch]

19. He's never heard of

the pawn shop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?

[riversedge]

20. "Says a lot about the ignorance of this country that there are millions of people who look at this decrepit lying sack o

‪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?"
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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]

22. That is the dementia advancing

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

[mwb970]

23. Jesus, what an idiot.

[AllyCat]

26. Out of touch. Who could have guessed.

[Racygrandma]

27. I think that was before everyone had a car

There was one where my grandma lived

[Martin Eden]

31. He lacks inhibition, which often proves his ignorance.

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]

36. The only reason

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]

52. The cruelest punishment for Diaper Donald

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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]

62. But

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.

[BradBo]

41. It seems he's getting worse. He has no inhibition anymore.

[mgardener]

34. He grew up

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]

35. I doubt he has ever set foot in any kind of store that sells groceries.

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

[SergeStorms]

37. The hero of the common MAGAt.....

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

[BradBo]

39. Holy crap he's an idiot. He proved it everyday. He has no filter anymore.

[JT45242]

50. He grew up in NYC...and Dems are out of touch

Sweet jebus...

[Clouds Passing]

54. Out Of Touch

[eppur_se_muova]

55. Someone please work the word "bodega" into his next speech.

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

[QueerDuck]

56. He'll flub that worse than the time he grunted "yo-smite... yo-sah-mite" (for Yosemite)

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

[3catwoman3]

92. I'm thinking "BAH-duh-gah."

[Attilatheblond]

57. Tell the paranoid jerk the corner store is where people buy the National Enquirer

[rampartd]

59. new yorkers call them "bodegas"

tell the orange thing to speak english.

[raccoon]

61. I can't stand Trump, yall know that, but I've never heard the term "corner store" before. Must be a regional term.

[BumRushDaShow]

64. It's an "urban" term and he was born and raised in the most populated city in the U.S.

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]

66. Outside of campaign photo ops,

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

[City Lights]

69. How he became the man of working people is beyond me. nt

[Rob H.]

70. It's a store where they sell corners! Duh, everybody knows that.

[eppur_se_muova]

90. ...

[Martin68]

72. Ficking moron.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

74. MaddowBlog-Baffled by his own 'corner store' reference, Trump's problems with groceries persist

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]

87. It's like the Poppy Bush revelation

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]

76. In a writing workshop, I reviewed works by college seniors

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]

79. Plus, I don't think the idea of franchises had been invented by 1920

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.

[tonekat]

84. Any thing he thinks, goes out the mouth

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.

[LudwigPastorius]

85. Just don't ask him what a quarter horse is.

[young_at_heart]

88. Why is a person with such low menality

speaking about such important changes for all of us?

[Danascot]

89. What a maroon!