Donald Trump Confuses 9/11 With Seven-Eleven, No One Seems To Care

7-11 was a part-time job.
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is continuing his experiment of how much he can get away with before people stop fan-girling over him.

Back in January Trump claimed he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" without losing any voters. Now he's taken things a step further while campaigning in New York, mistakenly naming a nationwide chain of convenience stores instead of the terrorist atrocities which shook the state in 2001.

Trump knows our country's biggest threat: convenience stores

(via @Walldo) https://t.co/72oq0BS5Qy

— Someone's An Idiot (@SomeonesAnIdiot) April 19, 2016

“I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down,” Trump said at a campaign rally on Monday evening.

Reports say, despite what seems a heinous error, the crowd stood by Trump and continued to accept every word he said.

The people of the internet, however, were not so kind.

please respect those who lost their lives in 7/11 due to the slurpee-induced brain freeze

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 19, 2016

BREAKING: Trump refers to 9/11 as 7/11, fans cheer, say they're "fed up with the establishment telling us what dates things happened on"

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) April 19, 2016

.@realDonaldTrump Never forget. pic.twitter.com/0QjqxcyyHp

— Matt Goldich (@MattGoldich) April 19, 2016

Donald Trump has spoken movingly about 7-Eleven. It reminded him, he said, of the way Americans came together in 1941 after Pearl Necklace.

— Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) April 19, 2016

a presidential candidate referred to 9/11 as 7-11 and it will have no appreciable effect on them. 2016 is wild

— Churlish (@Cryptoterra) April 19, 2016

Will Trump blame Bush for 7-11 like he did 9/11? Everyone knows 7-11 was a part time job. pic.twitter.com/z4bnYIrTCq

— Markeece Young (@YoungBLKRepub) April 19, 2016

Trump did 7/11

— bread emoji (@Brad_716) April 19, 2016

"Wait, I know this one. Let me concentrate. 7/11. That's it. The 7/11 attacks" pic.twitter.com/U4n5QFdnCd

— Core Group Vitriolic (@twlldun) April 19, 2016

Listen carefully Donald: 7-11 is the place where you buy hot dogs. 9/11 is the terrorist attack.

And this isn't the first time the real estate magnate-turned-politico has had a memory fault around the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Various political fact checkers found him to be muddling the truth when claiming he saw "thousands of American Muslims" celebrating the attacks.

Trump also attempted to justify the prosecution of terrorists' families by saying the 9/11 conspirators flew their families to the Middle East days before the attacks and they "knew exactly what was going on". The Washington Post busted that myth wide open. They gave the statement a "four Pinocchio rating" and said "there is no support for Trump’s claims".

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