President Donald Trump is on an international trip through the Middle East this week, and during his stop in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, he rambled about the "term groceries."
Over the past few months, the high cost of groceries has been front of mind for many Americans, polls show. However, for Trump, it's the word itself that has prompted fascination.
"I won on the border. And I won on groceries. It's a very simple word: groceries. Like, almost, who uses the word — I started using the word — the groceries," Trump told "Meet the Press" in December.
“It’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries," Trump mused during his "Liberation Day" speech in April that announced tariffs. "It sort of says a bag with different things in it."
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Even "The Daily Show" played a supercut of every time Trump expressed his fascination with the word "groceries."
Speaking to the UAE on Thursday, Trump brought up the "old-fashioned" word again.
"We have, uh, costs are way down. Groceries are — we have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term, but it means basically what you're buying, food. It's a pretty accurate term, but it's an old-fashioned sound; but groceries are down. Costs are down. Eggs are down. They were — the first week, they were hitting me with eggs are up 200%. And now they're down to a number that is amazing — down 97-98% from where they were."
