The potential future president had also told the crowd, “You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don’t know if you’ve heard it but it’s a little bit true,” before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.
“Food has gone up at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. “We’ve never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent.”
The online response to Trump’s odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, “Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well.”
Will buffalo wings be next?
First they came for the bacon
And I did not speak out
Because I was not eating bacon at the time
Then they came for the buffalo wings
And I did not speak out
Because I can take them or leave them
Then they came for the cheesesteak
And there was no one left
To speak out for the cheesesteak