Donald Trump gets trolled after he basically admits he's never been to a grocery store

You don't need a photo ID to buy food, sir.
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Nicole Gallucci
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Donald Trump gets trolled after he basically admits he's never been to a grocery store
President Donald Trump wondering if grocery stores are fun. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

First we were forced to wonder whether or not self-proclaimed movie lover Tom Cruise had ever actually seen a movie, now the American people are asking, "Has Donald Trump ever been to a grocery store?"

At a Make America Great Again rally in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday night, President Trump went off on a little tangent about the need for voter IDs. He explained his belief that people need a physical form of identification for just about everything in the country, including grocery shopping. (Reminder: That is simply not true.)

"The time has come for voter ID, like everything else. You know if you go out an buy groceries, you need a picture or a card — you need ID," Trump said to the crowd.

But despite the president's words, it's pretty common knowledge that anyone can go into a grocery or convenience store and buy food without showing photo ID.

The misleading remark about grocery shopping led essentially every human who has ever been to a supermarket to think that Trump, like the woefully uninformed Lucille Bluth, has never purchased food from a store in his life. And as you can imagine, his comment was trolled mercilessly.

If you've cried so many tears over the current state of American politics that you've run out of tissues, now's a perfect time to stock up. And remember, despite what the president says, you can buy tissues without presenting identification.

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Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

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