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Donald Trump Paid Tribute to the Heroes of '7-Eleven' During a Speech in New York

People across the internet flocked to share their brilliant "Slurpees can't melt steel beams" jokes.
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During a rally in Buffalo, New York, on Monday, Donald Trump accidentally said "7-Eleven" when talking about the World Trade Center terrorist attacks in 2001, and then just barreled on through his speech without batting an eye, CNN reports.

Trump—who hails from New York City—told his supporters in Buffalo that the speech he'd penned for them was "very close to my heart because 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. And I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action."

Trump also shamelessly added that he "helped a little bit," talking about the cleanup at Ground Zero—this from the same guy who claimed he witnessed people jumping from the Twin Towers from four miles away, in his comfy Trump Towers overlooking Central Park.

The mix-up was seemingly just a slip of the tongue and not really worth tearing Trump a new one over, since the guy already says plenty of heinous shit on purpose. But the flub carries a bit more weight on the day of the New York primaries, since some locals already don't consider Trump to be one of them.

It's also a great opportunity for people to take to Twitter with their brilliant "Slurpees can't melt steel beams" or "7/11 was a part-time job" jokes, so there's that.