Again? He says this every time he's trying to justify voter ID laws. He's just permanently stupid.
There's a non-zero chance he sees people swiping debit/credit cards to pay, and thinks that's "checking ID".
It's the only way I can think of for why he's convinced. Especially since he's seeing it on TV and not in person.
Maybe he saw people using ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol WITH their groceries and got confused
He has likely never been anywhere near a cashier at a grocery store in the past 50 years
When you are at that level of rich you don't go grocery shopping. Hell, Michael Jackson had to rent out an entire store just to experience it hassle free.
He thinks its the rewards cards that are their IDs.
Every time he leaves the White House he tries to turn in a Dave And Busters card like a hotel room key...
Then screams about how he's going to TGIFridays
People like him are exactly why we need voter id laws
This has "How much can a banana cost, Michael" vibes. I don't think this chucklefuck has bought groceries in his lifetime.
Doesn't he subsist on McDonald's almost exclusively?
And well done steak with ketchup on it. Don't forget that.
This right here should have disqualified him from ever touching the White House.
I mean I always need to show ID. But that's cause I'm always buying additional alcohol every time I go to the store while this bozo is still in office.
MAGA will easily explain "this is what Trump meant". I mean, it's either that or cigs. Maybe some chemicals as well. But never food lol.
When I buy Sudafed. For reasons.
Okay Jessie Pinkman
That’s right, bitch!
Keep in mind that every claim is an admission of what the authoritarians are thinking about. They want ID to buy food - basic survival will require prior paperwork.
And the paperwork will require obedience and loyalty to the party.
Something did not know is that in the 1930s Germans were required to carry papers showing their church attendance records.
Maybe we will have some sort of Hot Pockets^TM^ receipt app here in the US.
The Nestlé Faction is pleased, citizen.
They will spare your children. This time.
Not from diabetes they won't
Or contaminated baby formula
My socialist yuropoor brain literally cannot comprehend the level of freedom in the USA
Bro, I don't even get what the fuck is going on with this shit. The rules were simple: mind your own business, help your neighbors and chill.
These conservative ass-clowns have violated every one of those 3 rules.
Senile pedophile yells at cloud... Is his diaper full? More at 11
"I would like to buy a bag of potatoes."
"Papers, please."
"But it's just some potat..."
"PAPERS, NOW!"
The land of the free, everyone.
How would he know that? He just recently discovered the word "groceries" and now all of a sudden he's an expert? /s
Meanwhile Tucker is fucking pumpernickel bagels in Moscow.
Okay, but why is this being posted to LAMF? This place is for specific situations (see rule 1), it's not 'politics 2' (where I see it was cross-posted).
Projection, probably. Reimplement SNAP, with the condition that EVERYBODY needs to purchase through SNAP and TrumpID with it. Then take away SNAP for democrats when Trump calls for it.
...is sarcasm even a thing anymore? I cannot tell.
claimed that Americans need ID to buy groceries
Except that's not what he said... He just mentioned places, not the product (groceries); so could easily be referring to alcohol or cigarettes.
He's an out-of-touch dangerous idiot and his brain is Swiss cheese, but this is garbage reporting.
EDIT: Nope. I was wrong. There's precedent.
But he soon made clear he was actually talking about food, specifically mentioning “a box of cereal” in an interview three months later. In 2023, he falsely claimed identification was needed “if you buy a loaf of bread.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/politics/fact-check-trump-groceries-identification
He stated that you have to present ID when you go the the grocery store and the gas station, not when you buy cigarettes or alcohol. His statements, at face value, are simply factually incorrect.
Yes if you interpret everything in a literal sense as explicitly stated... but that's not how most people speak and, as already established, his brain is swiss cheese.
A cunning linguist, he isn't. Whenever he speaks, only good happen. Everything's not computer.
..what
"Nothing bad can happen; only good happen" and "everything's computer" are both quotes from Trump during this term.
If you try to take his words and phrasing at face value, only reading what is explicitly stated, you end up with nothing. The man speaks like a toddler quite often.
Do you know where that quote is from, though? It's from a Trump rally before covid. "You need an ID to buy groceries" is a well known right wing meme. He repeats this lie because it advances the right wing idea that American elections are influenced by left wing radicals and illegal immigrants who fraudulently vote. It's not based in any kind of truth and never was.
He doesn't repeat this phrase because he's an imbecile. (He is an imbecile, but that's not why he repeats this phrase.) He repeats this phrase because it's propaganda. It's got the illusion of truth. "You need an ID to buy groceries" sounds close enough to the truth that people who already agree with the point he's making won't question it.
Showing ID is a common and normal.
therefore
Requiring an ID to vote is not a burden.
Propaganda doesn't have to be accurate, it just needs to feel relatable. Don't excuse Trump for saying these things.
And he is the president of the fucking USA.
President? You spelled Rape Goblin wrong.
... Yes? What does that have to do with the garbage article being garbage?
Liberal or not, I don't tolerate that dismissive attitude when this is the fucking president.
Firstly, pointing out the community hardly seems relevant when nothing about this article fits with the theme.
Secondly, fuck off then? I hate the guy. I'm dismissive of garbage writing of a garbage article from a garbage outlet. There are plenty of things to be concerned and angry about, but this isn't even worth the very letters I'm typing right now. If you don't like my comment: downvote, block, move on.
I'd maybe go with that, but this isn't the first time he's made this claim and it's clear what he means.
(2018)
At a rally in Tampa, Florida, he said: "You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID."
"You go out and you want to buy anything, you need ID and you need your picture," he told the crowd at the "Make America Great Again" rally on Tuesday night.
You're correct. It's super annoying when articles take quotes out of context to create a narrative. You get into a debate with someone else, reference the article, then look dumb when they point out that's not what was actually implied.
Here's his exact quote:
“All we want is voter ID, you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID, you go to a gas station, you give ID, but for voting, they want no voter ID. It’s only for one reason, and it’s because they cheat. We would pass that in 15 minutes,” Trump ranted, seeming to slur his words at times. “If you don’t get it, you’ll never pass that. You’ll never talk about mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots make it automatically corrupt.”
It's pretty clear he's talking about having to use your ID when required at grocery stores and gas stations, i.e. to buy tobacco and alcohol.
Yes you can interpret it as him saying that he's going to require an id to buy groceries and gas but that requires a ton of mental gymnastics. Trump doesn't need fake narratives to sound like a fascist, there's plenty of actual examples to pick from, but this ain't it. The fact that he's trying to get rid of mail in voting is already insane enough
Nope. I was wrong. There's precedent.
But he soon made clear he was actually talking about food, specifically mentioning “a box of cereal” in an interview three months later. In 2023, he falsely claimed identification was needed “if you buy a loaf of bread.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/politics/fact-check-trump-groceries-identification
Cheeto's just that cooked.
Exactly this. The point he's seemingly making is a terrible point, but (effectively) misquoting him doesn't help in any way, it just gives them an easy echo-chamber-reinforced defense: they point out mischaracterizations as examples of "derangement" and shut down rather than engaging with the subject.
His narrative is wrong and his point is stupid: that should be enough; no need to stretch it for a clickbait headline. But here we are...
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