By Wonderwall.com Editors
5:54pm PDT, Apr 4, 2025
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Say what? President
Donald Trump made a bizarre assertion about the word "groceries" during his divisive "Liberation Day" speech at the White House on Wednesday, April 2.
The former star of
The Apprentice took credit for reviving the word "groceries" — which he described as "an old-fashioned term" — when he used it on the presidential campaign trail in 2024.
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During his "Liberation Day" speech at the White House on Wednesday, April 2, Trump extolled "an old-fashioned term that we use: groceries."
"I used it on the campaign. It's such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it," he rambled.
The former reality star then attempted to take credit for positively impacting the cost of groceries: "Groceries went through the roof, and I campaigned on that. I talked about the word 'groceries' for a lot, and energy costs now are down, groceries are down," he falsely claimed.
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Donald Trump's mini-rant about groceries raised plenty of questions, namely, "Has he ever done his own shopping before?"
One critic compared the president to
Arrested Development matriarch Lucille Bluth (
the late Jessica Walter), taking to X to
share a popular meme in which the spoiled socialite asks one of her adult children, "I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost: $10?" In the scene, her son — Jason Bateman's Michael Bluth — replies, "You've never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you?"
A second Trump critic
griped on X, "
[Former President Joe Biden] never went on weird tangents about dumb s*** like this. And this isn't the first time Trump went off on it. But y'all called [Biden] senile? This dude is f****** demented in every sense of the term. On what planet is 'groceries' an old-fashioned term?"A third X user
joked, "I am going food shopping later what should I buy? #groceries perhaps?? Will anyone even know what I'm talking about with such an antiquated term?"
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As for President Donald Trump's claims that he's responsible for lowering the cost of groceries, there's no evidence that's the case. In fact, according to
People magazine, the USDA's Food Price Outlook — which was last updated on March 25 — notes that "grocery costs are expected to rise slightly faster than the average rate of growth this year."
CNN reported on April 2 that egg prices have stabilized after dramatically increasing in price when Trump returned to the White House in January, but that's mainly because of the "sharp decrease" in cases of bird flu coupled with the fact that Americans simply stopped buying eggs due to the high cost — not because of any policies implemented by the Trump administration. According to
CNN, the decrease in demand allowed markets to fill their stock, leading to increased supply and therefore lower costs.
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Donald Trump's newly implemented reciprocal tariffs on foreign goods are expected to prompt even more inflation. According to the
Wall Street Journal, U.S. markets suffered their steepest declines since 2020 after the president celebrated "Liberation Day" on April 2. The wildly unpopular policy change also drew heat online when Trump critics noticed that the former reality star is
implementing new tariffs on several uninhabited islands as well as an American military base.
