Trump: "He was in a drug store and the people with duffel bags, they're putting crap in a duffel bag and walking"

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
Trump: "The pharmacies are going out of business. A guy right here, Mr Lutnick, Mr Lutnick is a rich guy, but he was in a drug store and the people with duffel bags, they're putting crap in a duffel bag and walking. How screwed up is our country?"

Trump: "The pharmacies are going out of business. A guy right here, Mr Lutnick, Mr Lutnick is a rich guy, but he was in a drug store and the people with duffel bags, they're putting crap in a duffel bag and walking. How screwed up is our country?"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-22T19:55:49.656Z

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Our country is screwed up because you forced your way into the presidency, dip wad.

[Girard442]

2. Proof positive that massive hypocrisy is not instantly fatal.

That's a shame.

[Ocelot II]

3. I'm sure Howard Nutlick regularly prowls the aisles of a Walgreens carrying a little red basket,

loading it up with compression socks, nose hair trimmers and hemorrhoid cream, while observing all those looters with duffel bags stealing compression socks, nose hair trimmers and hemorrhoid cream.

[MiHale]

4. Where does that happen?

No place around me any drugstore or market or grocery store where they sell toothpaste or toothbrushes lock those item up.

[oberle]

10. Unfortunately it has happened in DC

[eppur_se_muova]

5. More "good horror stories" to keep the Uglican base enthralled*. And they never question their veracity in any way.

enthralled
Also found in: Thesaurus, Idioms.
en·thrall (ĕn-thrôl′
tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls
1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled us.
2. To enslave.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/enthralled


thrall
Also found in: Thesaurus, Idioms, Wikipedia.
thrall (thrôl)
n.
1. The state of being in the power of another person or under the sway of an influence: "a people in thrall to the miracles of commerce" (Lewis H. Lapham).
2.
a. One, such as a slave or serf, who is held in bondage.
b. One who is in the power of another or under the sway of an influence.
tr.v. thralled, thrall·ing, thralls Archaic
To enslave.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

*The original meaning of "enthralled" was that someone was bound and controlled under a magic spell, or "thrall". Now it's used figuratively, although for MAGA it's pretty damned close to literal.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Was it Inquisitor Homan with the duffle bag?

Or one of Trump's family?

[MineralMan]

7. Chuck Trump Now!

[Midnight Writer]

8. Like Reagan and his "Welfare Queen" stories. A crock of shite to rile up the rubes.

[Wonder Why]

9. Those were the drug store executives stealing from their employees.

[Justice matters.]

11. The greedy corporations add the losses into their retail prices

they never lose.

They should arrest the never-enough greedy tax-cuts CEOs.

What a crazy scare-mongering con-man!

[oasis]

12. Desperados shoplifting, billionaires blood sucking.

“How screwed up is our country?” the idiot asked.