Trump says grocery stores will 'work along' with federal workers to give them free groceries during

[left-of-center2012]

Source: Raw Story

President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that grocery stores are extending credit to federal employees facing economic crisis due to his shutdown.

In statements from the White House that will keep fact-checkers busy, Trump defended comments by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

Trump said that banks are “working along” with federal workers who are unable to meet mortgage payments.

“That’s what happens at a time like this, they know the people, they’ve been working with them for years, and they work along. The grocery stores work along,” Trump claimed.

In August, Trump bizarrely claimed that people need government issued IDs to purchase groceries.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/trump-says-grocery-stores-will-work-along-federal-workers-give-free-groceries-shutdown/

[CountAllVotes]

1. what a freakin scam

Expect nothing less from Don the Con!!!!!

[in2herbs]

2. He is a piece of garbage and anyone who thinks like him is a piece of garbage too. ITMF NOW!! nt

[YOHABLO]

3. He just makes this shit up and pulls it out of his fat ass.

[thegoose]

4. The grocery stores "work along"?

What does that even fucking mean? And I've never seen a grocery store offering credit in my life.

[area51]

16. Just a guess

is that he's alluding to people being allowed to run up a tab at a grocery store. There's all the chance of a snowball in hell of this.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. More Like The Surface Of The Sun!

You're right! Ain't gonna happen!

[rsdsharp]

54. I have. I worked in one.

Of course this was the late 1960s, early 70s, in a small Iowa town, and the grocery store was also small, and the owner was local, and on site all day, every day.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Just tell the grocery stores ...

Mexico will pay for it.

[sheshe2]

26. ...

[Ohiogal]

6. What a total dipwad!

Just when you think he can’t possibly say anything more stupid ....

[violetpastille]

7. Credit cards? Is that what he's suggesting?

Is he looking for the words, "Just max out your credit then declare bankruptcy." ?

[jmowreader]

55. Well...that's what he would do

Most of us have more pride than that.

Question: If Robert Mueller indicts Individual 1 before the shutdown is over, will Pence reopen the government while Trump is in lockup?

[akraven]

8. What fantasy world is he into now?

I just returned from taking my neighbor, furloughed from ATC, some navy bean soup w/ ham and a huge ham bone for her pupperstuff. We're all chipping in to keep a good neighbor and the precious pup (all 120 pounds) in food.

So of Orange McBonespurs can find a place giving groceries out for free, I PROMISE it's not Fred Meyer, Safeway or WalMart.

He is a true freak of nature who needs to fade out of existence before he ruins the entire country. His "mate" (LOL, Russian handler) left. Probably due to a caviar shortage.

[TexasBushwhacker]

53. Walmart is probably shitting bricks

That SNAP is going to get cut off if the shut down lasts much longer. 18% of all SNAP benefits are redeemed at Walmart and Walmart makes 56% of its sales from food. Of course, Walmart employees qualify for millions in SNAP benefits every year. Talk about welfare queens. Walmart is the biggest of them all.

[Solly Mack]

9. Damn

[NurseJackie]

10. He's imagining this: Oleson's Mercantile

They were always happy to extend credit to the members of their community. Anyone could walk in, grab an item and say "put it on my tab" as they rushed out the door.

[Blue_Tires]

46. Yeah, I was wondering if Donnie honestly believes

that all those down home folks in the south and midwest shop at some kind of antiquated "General Store"...

[NurseJackie]

48. Exactly right! Something like: "Sam Drucker's General Store" enters his mind.

... with a friendly Mr. Drucker grocer behind the counter who's sympathetic and who can afford to extend credit to everyone in the community.

[obamanut2012]

49. Mrs. Oleson didn't let people run tabs

She wanted cash up front!

[NurseJackie]

50. You're right! I'd forgotten what a sour woman she was.

[CreekDog]

56. well that's because Mr. Oleson would always just give things away while she wasn't looking

he was such a softie.

[RockRaven]

11. What's extra insane about this (as if he could get any crazier) is that he was "clarifying"

comments from Wilbur Ross... comments which, in the sentence he uttered immediately prior, Trump stated he had not heard. How the hell does that work? "I don't know what he said, but allow me to now explain exactly what he meant."

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. It's equally insane that not one reporter calls him out after he says this insane sh*t.

[BritVic]

25. There's never a follow-up question. He's allowed to spout garbage unchallenged.

[rurallib]

12. go to a grocery store, load up a cart, tell 'em Trump will pay for it

and see what happens when you walk out.

Most grocery stores have heard Trump is a deadbeat who won't pay his bills so they may stop you.

[chowder66]

13. Make America Grovel Again!! nt

[Deb]

14. Dude, is that your new Grocer Be Best policy?

[dlk]

15. These Comments Confirm Trump Has Never Shopped in a Grocery Store

He is utterly clueless.

[Blue Owl]

18. He's drugged up on his own shitty ego

n/t

[Haggis for Breakfast]

19. WHAT grocery stores are doing this ?

If some grocer(s) is(are) doing this, it should be made public immediately.

There are none in my area. Anyone ?

[sinkingfeeling]

20. I think I'll ask my grocery store if I can buy on credit just to get their response.

[Marcuse]

21. What does the Secretary of the Treasury advise about avoiding foreclosure?

[link:https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/320122-steve-mnuchin-foreclosure-king-now-runs-your-us|

In 2008, Mnuchin made a deal with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). He and his investment group bought a predatory lender named Indy Mac, renaming it "OneWest." They then started foreclosing on homeowners.

While doing that, he "harvested fees for appraisals and inspections and late payments, and got protected by a federal backstop. The FDIC lost $13 billion on Indy Mac; Mnuchin and company made $3 billion in profits."
To make this tidy sum for himself, Mnuchin used something called "servicer-driven defaults." This practice entailed "telling homeowners they must miss payments to get help, and when they do, [the banks] move to foreclose."

The other devious ploy is something called "dual tracking." This is "where servicers negotiate modifications and pursue foreclosures at the same time."

If that were not enough, Dayen cites "a decided racial component. 68 percent of OneWest 36,000 plus foreclosures in California were in non-white areas." In addition, "OneWest was a market leader in foreclosing on the elderly: its subsidiary Financial Freedom carried out a disproportionate number of reverse mortgage foreclosures, which target seniors to suck out their home equity."

[mahina]

34. Yep, that's the shittiest thing I've ever heard of.

[Tracer]

42. I've never heard an explanation from Kamala Harris ...

... as to why she never brought charges against OneWest and Mnuchin.

Have you?

[Marcuse]

51. Nope

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/05/kamala-harris-fails-to-explain-why-she-didnt-prosecute-steven-mnuchins-bank/|

[SWBTATTReg]

52. All of these guys, mortgage lenders, Mnuchin, etc. should have been thrown in jail for basically ...

criminally advising home owners struggling to keep their homes in order to obtain 'help', to first default, or to take on ill advised reverse mortgages, costing many of our elderly their homes.

Wilbur Ross of course has ripped off his partners big time.

Jared K.'s dad was in prison/still is? for financial crimes.

God, rump is surrounded by crooks everywhere. I could go on and on, on just about everyone in the administration that is somewhat shady.

Nail their asses to the wall!

[Aussie105]

22. I guess

all those (imaginary) 'sure, we can put it on your tab' grocery stores can get supplies in on the same basis?

Non paid workers: We are hurting!
Trump: No you are not!
Workers: yes we are!
Trump: Blame Nancy and her gang.

You never really find out how important money in your pocket is until you don't have any.
But Trump will never have experienced that.

[cstanleytech]

23. I have never heard of any major chain grocery store extending credit. Now the old neighborhood ones

did or atleast some of them did but that was many many decades ago.

[Talitha]

24. Wouldn't it be great IF - - -

A bunch of hackers re-opened the Govt and fixed things so all of the federal workers' back-pay would be drawn from accounts of the rich Repugs who couldn't give a care? Heck, let them send funds to all of the businesses that suffered losses because of the Trump shutdown, too.

Take. Your. Wall. And. Shove. It.

[Liberty Belle]

30. Or out of the Kremlin's funds.

After all they are orchestrating this whole thing to cause chaos.

[Demonaut]

27. he got free money from Russia...not a far stretch of his imagination

[sprinkleeninow]

28. Shut th' hell up, will ya?

Sick of this bull****.

[Bleacher Creature]

29. His entire career is about paying what he wants and stiffing people for the rest.

Reading these types of statements through that mindset often helps explain a lot of what he says.

[Hugin]

31. I expect to see him throw paper towels in...

3, 2, 1...

:itmfn:

[regnaD kciN]

32. If you're a government employee and live in a city with a Trump hotel...

...go there and ask them for a room on credit.

[demgrrrll]

33. I remember being in a small town and being able to put things on a family tab at a grocery store

Those days have been over for at least 40 years. If you went into a major chain and asked for a tab they would show you the door.

[left-of-center2012]

45. "a family tab at a grocery store"

We had that when I was a kid in the 1950s,
in a small town in rural PA.

[Aussie105]

35. What we need now

is for some Republican supporters, who have funded the party in the past and intended to do so at the next election, to develop a conscience, and decide the line in the sand regarding inhuman treatment has been well and truly stepped over by Trump.

Then redirect their funding for the party to relief efforts for the working but cash strapped federal workers.

A simple credit note to major chains and lots of small grocery stores allowing federal workers to access essential groceries, would do it.

I can but dream.

Won't be too long before people in other countries will have to start sending food parcels to their US relatives.

[Cha]

36. Trump LIES.. BLAH BLAH BLAH.. Fixed IT.

[Vinca]

37. He thinks this is the 1890's and we shop at the local general store.

So out of touch. I bet he couldn't describe what a grocery scanner is for a million dollar prize.

[Bengus81]

38. When's the last time Trump was EVER in a "grocery store"??

Hey DIPSHIT,they're now call SUPERmarkets and are all CORPORATE owned like all the Dillions/Kroger that control prices in this city. Oh...but I'll bet it some poor Guberment worker strolled in and talked to the manager he's extend credit till the sun burns out.

[Blues Heron]

40. Trump's like the guy that ran the Fyre Festival

Luxury beachside villa!

[Cold War Spook]

41. You can use a credit card.

But since you don't have any money to pay the bill when due it will cost you interest that you can't pay because you don't have any money. The stores around here are lucky because this is a Marine city, Jacksonville NC, and they are getting paid. The towns with the Coast Guard aren't so lucky since they are not getting paid.

[MineralMan]

43. Has Donald Trump ever been in a supermarket?

I doubt it. The old family-run grocery stores are long gone. The only credit supermarkets understand is what plastic card you have.

[obamanut2012]

47. There are still old family-run grocery stores

And, they won't let you run a tab either! My grandmother lives in such a town with such a store, and you can only get gas with cash (groceries and some ready-made food like subs can be bought with debit/cc).

[Paladin]

44. trump, man of the people.

Fucking asshole.