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Donald Trump Recently Learned a New Word: Groceries
And yet, many poor Americans think he has their interests at heart.
“Come on, get dressed. We gotta go.” My mother would say, poking her head from the hallway.
Never wanting to go anywhere because we wanted to play all day, one of us would ask, “Where are we going?” There were five of us.
“We need to do some grocery shopping.”
“Groceries” and the act of driving to a supermarket and buying them is something that most Americans and citizens of the world engage in daily. Some hate it, and some love it (I love it). The president-elect of the United States never engaged in that act of survival. He never had to because other people have been doing it for him throughout his life. In Trump’s world, the refrigerator is always full — I am not even sure he knows what a refrigerator is. He probably thinks his cans of Coke come perfectly chilled.
Why am I writing about this now? It seems that a few weeks ago, Trump began telling people that he was elected because he had been talking about “groceries.” The look on his burnt-umber-colored face was one of complete shock. Each time he repeated the word “Groceries, groceries,” he became more animated by how the word slid off his fat tongue. He was like a puppy playing with a new…
