President Donald Trump nonetheless appears to assume that “groceries” is one thing of an unusual phrase.
“It’s such an old style time period, however a lovely time period: groceries. It type of says a bag with various things in it,” Trump stated at a White Home occasion on Wednesday, the place he mentioned his large new tariffs. “Groceries went by the roof and I campaigned on that. I talked in regards to the phrase ‘groceries’ for lots.”
Trump has had an odd fixation with the phrase ― and a fair odder fixation with the notion that it’s by some means an unusual or “old style” phrase.
He mentioned it last week as “like an old style phrase, however it’s a lovely phrase, a really descriptive phrase.” At a distinct occasion final week, he called it “like an old style phrase, however actually it’s not, and other people perceive it.”
He additionally introduced it up on the marketing campaign path, the place at one level he tried to outline it.
“The phrase ‘grocery,’ it’s a type of easy phrase,” he stated in October. “However it type of means, like, every part you eat. The abdomen is talking, it all the time does.”
“The Every day Present” this week took to the streets to attempt to persuade those who “groceries” was an old style phrase in a video you can watch here.
And on social media, Trump’s critics mocked the newest phrase salad over groceries:
