Following Tuesday night’s resounding victory for Democrats across the country, Donald Trump came up with a long to-do list Wednesday morning that he thinks is the solution to what ails Republicans. And bizarrely, during his postelection meltdown, he claimed that Americans need ID to buy groceries.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      49 minutes ago

      Could also be distant memories of people commonly using checks to pay their groceries, which does usually have them check your ID. Obviously paying with check is pretty rare these days.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      9 hours ago

      Maybe he saw people using ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol WITH their groceries and got confused

      • Hayduke@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        8 hours ago

        He has likely never been anywhere near a cashier at a grocery store in the past 50 years

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 hours ago

      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.