Trump has a 7/11 problem - no not the liquor store

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  1. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Just when I thought I was bored by the whole Trumpet phenomenon, El Trompeta goes and makes this claim:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-911-problem-help-rubble-172716833.html

    “Everyone who helped clear the rubble — and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit — but I want to tell you: Those people were amazing,” Trump said. “Clearing the rubble. Trying to find additional lives. You didn’t know what was going to come down on all of us — and they handled it.”
     
  2. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Oh, my. It's a simple gaffe (the 7/11) coupled with another claim that may not exactly pan out. (Or it might.)

    It won't matter to his followers, though. They jettisoned any expectations of truth a long time ago.
     
  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    And rightly so. After all, what difference, at this point, does it make?
     
  4. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    Is there a 7-11 liquor store? I've only heard of the convenience store.
     
  5. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Well, I think of them as liquor stores because they sell liquor. I guess technically they are a convenience store. Of course, these days, many liquor stores out here sell other items like swap meet type clothes (cheap socks, beanies, t-shirts) and things of this nature. I still tend to use the old school term "liquor store". I guess it is hard to make money just on liquor and cigs.
     
  6. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    I THINK it would be either "el trompeto" or "la trompeta". There certainly are exceptions to the general rule, though, such as "el agua" and "las manos", both quite common. (wink)
     
  7. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Is it really hard to make money on liquor and cigs?
     
  8. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Now that I think of it, no.
     
  9. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Can't be. Here, convenience stores make 1/3 to 1/2 their profits on cigarettes. They'd be dead without them, as they can't sell alcohol - not even wine or beer. The Provincial government does that - at astronomical markups plus tax. Even they can't screw that system up. Latest figures: "The LCBO transferred a dividend of $1.935 billion to the Ontario government, $130 million more than the year before. Net income for 2015-16 was $1.97 billion, an increase of 8.2 per cent. The agency said it was the 21st year of record sales."

    Maybe, in light of the current situation, it could be seen this way: "la trompeta" the instrument, "el trompeta" - the man. :question: :question: :question: Then again, the correct word is el trompetista, for a man who plays it, so... maybe that would do?

    J.
     
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  10. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    In the Hispanic community, the call him "el Trumpeta", which is a play of his name, just with eta added. :smile:
     
  11. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Whatever they say - goes. I figure there'd be quite a number of Spanish-speakers (hispanohablantes - thanks Maniac) who'd call him "el constructor de muros," or something less complimentary.

    J.
     
  12. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Why not "La Trampa" :chairfall:

    It can even be turned into a hit song!

    Para bailar la trampa se nececita una poca de mentira....
     
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  13. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    ¡Maravilloso! :laugh: :laugh:

    J.
     
  14. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Claro que si!!!!!!!!!! :smile:
     
  15. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That rhymes perfectly!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  16. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    That's a good one, "El constructor de muros". HE never got Mexico to pay for it! He he! :smile:
     
  17. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    The late Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela) would have been proud of you, Maniac. His own, excellent 1958 take on this traditional song might have been different, if he'd had to live in the Age of Trump.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bamba_(song)

    J.
     
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  18. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    According to my family, we are related somehow to the late Ricardo Valenzuela via extended family.
     
  19. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Okay, I laughed. :)
     

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