‘Shut up about egg prices’: Trump shares brazen message about high costs

...Trump has shifted from his campaign stance, recently telling Fox News "Inflation is back" but claiming "I had nothing to do with it" after just weeks in office.

We cannot let Trump get away with claiming that he campaigned on lowering inflation. Trump campaigned on reducing prices, not slowing the rate at which they increase.

Everyone with two brain cells knew he wouldn't be able to do that. Now he can't even seem to keep inflation low, which it already was the last year of the Biden administration.

Because of monetary policy?
His project 2025 he's clearly following does have a section on the Federal reserve, and its far tighter than it is now. I can see prices fall as shelter prices collapse.
- Without an increase in supply, how much could housing prices actually decline? My bet? Not much.
Inflation was always going to go back up, and they all damn well knew it. Expect interest rates to stay high for the foreseeable future.

Actually, what I fully expect from this administration is to have the USDA stop inspections and declare the bird flu over. If they are really brazen, they'll tell farmers to not cull the birds and to stop all testing of bird flu.
This is how our country dies.
The ostrich method appears to be popular lately. We’ve banned all discussion of climate change for example in at least one state. We’ve even passed the law saying it isn’t real.
I don’t get it. If the method is so effective, just say it’s gone.
Birds... Migrations.... Immigrants! There ... blame deflection complete in two steps only.
RFK JR has measles covered.

"Shut up about the issue that I could actually be solving, but instead I'm too busy bullying our allies and making things even more expensive"

Yeah, no. Fuck off Mango Mussolini

One of their biggest campaign promises just broken. All those grocery stores that had to host this sack of shit for nothing.

Everything about this dude is so off-putting. He just looks condescending in every picture
- He'd look so much more normal without the eyeliner.

“I will immediately bring prices down starting on Day 1,” he said on Aug. 15, for example. “Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down,” he promised later that same month.

He backed away from that last month.

Everything's normal. This is what you voted for, Murca!

ETA For those following these comments:

Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Given the track record of those in the current ruling class of Murca, I agree with those comments which suggest we can exchange the placement of "malice" and "stupidity".

Krasnov just DGAF about the plebs who voted for him, at best. At worst, he's actively destroying the economy, democracy, and the plebs he lied to.

America, the only country dumb enough to fall for a rapist felon's promises...twice.
- 2020: "I can't believe they fell for that. Oh, well, they chose better next time. Let's give them a chance."
  2024: "...Yeah, they're just fucking dumb. Countless countries would have loved a chance to get rid of a shitstain like that without needing a violent revolt and the United States just... invited him back into office. Just... so fucking dumb."
- And then blame the system for a choice they willingly made.
blind men following the one-eyed dumbass.
- I think it's far more sinister than that. In this case, I attribute to malice what could be explained by incompetence.

This shit is just getting too surreal. Democrats were literally not allowed to quote actual economic progress without being called "out of touch" but Trump can literally say "fuck you shut up."

A relevant quote from Jean-Paul Sartre:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Reactionaries continue this. If you are a liberal, they will take advantage of your values, pretending they deserve that universal respect.
See also: free speech
Victims are always held to higher standards.
Yeah. It's one of the great mysteries of conservative politics IMO.
They just magically get to be "better economic managers" despite any facts to the contrary.
The problem with the economic message from Biden and Harris was they celebrated like they had solved the economy. But the average family was still struggling. If they had said something like, "We are happy to see the economy land without a recession; That is a victory we have all achieved, and now we can do the same thing for the working class, etc etc" it wouldn't have been such a bloodbath every time they took a victory lap on the stock market line and current year inflation.

Kirk also argued that Trump and the effort of his administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency will lead to savings for all Americans, and said egg prices will come down soon.

Everyone knows that illegally firing career federal employees results in lower prices on eggs...

/s

Yeah, firing the people responsible for dealing with a disease that kills chickens will surely make the price go down.
- I'm almost certain Trump's solution will be to stop culling chickens and telling people to buy cod liver oil to deal with the bird flu that results.
- As if reducing the cost for suppliers reduces the cost for consumers anymore instead of just increasing the margins.
  The problem with our capitalist system (other than the obvious part) is that there is no longer meaningful local competition to push prices down. Reducing the cost to produce just increases the profit. Everything today is made at least as cheap and as efficiently as it was 10 years ago, yet here we are paying more for it, while the top 1% is getting records profits.
soon
He just needs 4 years, and he promises he’ll get to it next term. /s
- Right after infrastructure week.
why is everyone so focused on egg prices and ignoring all the positive things? How many of you are now able to walk their pets outside without fear of some immigrants bouncing on it and eating it?
:/

It's almost like he lied just to get into office and then do whatever he wanted.

My brother asked me if I was better off 4 years ago right before the election. I pointed out the USA had one of the best recoveries after the pandemic lock downs and asked what he think Trump would have done different. He didn't answer. Ignoring that 4 years ago we were filling the impacts of Trumps government, not Bidens, I have to ask if he's better off now than he was almost 4 months ago. I'm betting the honest answer would be no.
Criminals do tend to lie in an attempt to avoid prison.
He did it the first time. He's a proven liar. And racist. And rapist. And insurrectionist. And convicted felon. And people still chose to vote for him, or let him saunter into office. Jeez. People are stupid.
I mean, welcome to pretty much every Presidential campaign ever. Running on a platform of "I will rubber stamp any legislation by my party that comes across my desk, and veto everything else" just isn't good messaging, even if that is what everyone wants anyway.
- There's deliberately lying, like what Trump always does, and there's bending the truth a bit, like what real politicians do.

"SHUT UP ABOUT THE THING I SWORE TO YOU THAT I'D FIX DAY 1! STOP HOLDING ME ACCOUNTABLE! "

People in my old selecting job the day after the election litterly said they voted from him so "groceries wouldn't be $300 dollars"
It's so many people couldn't tell it was an obviously lie that Trump was going to make groceries cheaper
He really is like a child.

Conservatives always love censorship.

Never let them tell you otherwise.

Well, the Premier of Ontario just put a 25 % surcharge on the electricity that powers millions of homes in three states. I guess they won’t have to worry about the price of eggs if they can’t afford to cook them.

FAFO

We're all going to spend the next four years finding out how expensive maintaining the Republican ego-driven sense of superiority will be. I vote blue not because I need to, but because I think it's best for my peers and because I love my friends. At the end of the day though, I'm laughing at every price increase because if it gets to the point that I can't afford food, there's going to be about 250 million starving Americans in front of me pushing for change.
- Damn, imagine the party of fiscal responsibility bankrupting the entire working class and that registering in the consciousness of the conservatwats. One can dream.
Ehh.. A lot of those states were blue.
Still doesn't mean I don't think it’s justified.
- Michigan helped doom us. F them.
- Plenty of conservatives in those states to suffer along with their liberal counterparts. I'll be here with my popcorn.
- The areas that get power from Canada are rural. And pretty red.

That just makes me want to talk more about egg prices. Also fuck Charlie Kirk, I hope his face keeps shrinking until it disappears.

If his mouth keeps shrinking at the current rate in just five months it should form a singularity and I'll never need to hear from the fucker again. If that singularity happens to swallow earth so be it - it'll be worth it.

I swore I'd post this everytime Charlie Kirk gets mentioned, so here I am:

https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/

I looked at the code for this a couple nights ago, the whole Navy seal copypasta is in there, lol.
- For the uninitiated:
  What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
- and he still goes to certain colleges to give his right wing talks too, much like shapiro sitll does.
He lives like a capitalist every single day Shane

Normally I would agree that the president had little effect on prices since that is largely the job of the Fed. But Trump being wishy washy on tariffs is really fucking things up. It is extremely hard for businesses to plan for shit when massive tariffs are planned, then delayed, then implemented for three fucking days before being held off again for a month. How the fuck are businesses suppose to do any sort of inventory planning when they don't know how much something is going to cost them if they hold off for a day to buy things. Or they bought in bulk under the assumption that they would have to pay significantly more later are now stuck with a ton of inventory they may not have room for.

So yes, in this case Trump is having a large effect on prices. If it was just tariffs, inflation would temporarily go up and the Fed would increase interest rates and the recession it causes would slow inflation. But the Fed can't plan for the dipshit president going back and forth in tariffs.

rando firings that effect government entities that stabilize farm prices and respond to things like bird flu can have somewhat of an effect to.
- Yes to the first one, not as much immediately to the second one. The second one would likely have more medium term effects.
What I find interesting about this is that we had a similar situation in the UK with Liz Truss. We had a PM who announced a surprise budget of tax cuts, which ok, were a little bit stronger than ones the Tories had done previously. This caused a shock to the bond markets, cost quite a lot of money and she was immediately removed from office by her own party and her budget cancelled.
Trump has caused chaos and cost the US billions with his tariff talk, alienated most western allies, damaged the US MIC enormously and caused deaths in Ukraine by cutting support. The damage done is incalculable, it is not in the same universe as the damage caused by Liz Truss. The only thing that makes sense is that Republican party want America ruined and they aren't going to stop unless they are forced to. I think what Trump has already done should qualify as treason on the basis of undermining the USA and supporting its enemies.
- Precisely, it IS treason. At the very least he should be removed from any position of power over others.
- damn and she's the one who lost to a cabbage. I think at this point I'd prefer the cabbage.
Broadly speaking it's nearly impossible for a US president to directly fix the economy, but they can easily break it.
All this tariff talk is just deliberate manipulation of the markets. Trump talks tariffs, the stock market tanks, creating buying opportunities for Sociopathic Oligarchs. Then he backs off the tariff talks, and the stock market rises again, and he brings up tariffs again in 4-6 weeks, and starts the cycle over again.
- Normally I would agree with you if it was a one time thing. But the market stops listening to the boy who cried wolf. All the markets are down despite Trump rebonding the tariff and delaying it. There has to be something else at play. The guy is certainly not an economic genius but he generally at least pushes through with his idiotic shit.

Wasn't he going to lower the egg prices? Weren't they supposed to get tired of winning? Maybe he used the wrong sign in his addition.

He was supposed too but then like a million other things came up that he had to fix so don't worry about the stupid food right now ok . Cmon people, bootstraps, recession starts soon. Let's goooo🦾🦾🦾
On day one
he said that early on as soon as he won, said he couldnt lower prices, something the followers never remember.

Saving millions?? Goodness! That could be upwards of a dollar per person!

2 million is technically also millions, so could be less than a penny per person

Dems can beat this man if they choose to stand for something and stop letting these Nazi's move their own goalpost 24/7. Use these 4 years to build and get serious about systematic change. There isn't going to be some sweeping redemption for Trump voters where they realize the errors of their ways.

Dems could have beaten him every time. They didn't.
Dems are not a reliable solution to this problem, and nor is the broken federal electoral system in general. You cannot vote your way out of this mess. Republicans will continue to suppress the vote of people they don't like. The owning class have purchased the newspapers, television stations and social media platforms. It's a rigged game.
Organize in your communities if you want any real power.
- We need both, and community organizing turns into party primaries really quick.
Realistically, US can't wait 4 years if want survive.
- Can't even wait 2

His reality distortion field is collapsing.

Ok let's talk about the recession instead

Trump take egg :,(

You know what is amusing - I bet the redcaps still drinking the little d kool-aid will do ANYTHING to stop talking about egg prices at this point.

I bet they start accusing State Media, oops, I mean, Faux "News", of being too "liberal" for talking about the cost of eggs - or really, the price of anything else. Same goes for talking about the Dow, the S&P 500, NASDAQ, TSLA after a bad day...

He will never lower the price of eggs. And soon he will crash the economy. No one will have money for eggs, which will cost $20/dozen. He is crashing our Democracy & economy. I can't wait until he tries to remove all the gold bars from Treasury and flee the country.

Fun fact
https://bsky.app/profile/susanrinkunas.com/post/3ljzvantc2c27

Hey didn't this rapist felon say he was going to immediately lower the cost of groceries and now we're losing trade wars and American goods are being taken off of foreign shelves and we're about to have a Trumpcession?

We as a species need to learn that there are things a president doesn't, can't, and often shouldn't be able to control. It's so much easier to point out that shit is bad than it is to fix it given the opportunity.

Egg prices being high was the stupidest thing to base a vote on.

And yet exit polls showed that was one of the things that people said was a reason they voted for him.....
- "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American."

I can see why so many news sites are trying to replace their writers with AI. This article is just a little bit of context followed by a dump of social media posts.

Anyone know if the rest of the groceries actually went down aside from the eggs?

Overall, prices for food-at-home rose by 0.8 percent between December 2024 and January 2025. This was partially an effect of seasonal trends, since prices typically increase in January following the holiday season. From December 2024 to January 2025, prices increased for 11 food-at-home categories and declined for 4 categories. In 2025, prices are predicted to grow at above-average rates for eggs, sugar and sweets, nonalcoholic beverages, and fresh fruits, while dairy products are expected to grow at near-average rates. Prices for 10 other food-at-home categories are predicted to change at a rate below their 20-year historical average.
Source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings
- So he didn't lower prices but also the eggs are mostly a one off.

They will blame it on the democrats even if the problem persists for the next 2 years, and no matter what bullshit deregulation on price gouging AND sanitation/health inspection being gutted that accellerates the spread of disease, it is ALWAYS the democrat's fault.

We know what the problem is, but I have no idea what the solution would be.

He is triggered, so talk more about egg, wear a t-shirt about eggs, and talk about egg recipes, everything about eggs, search everyday on Google about eggs.

Egg him on, so to speak? Ensure everyone is aware of the egg on his face? Can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, by the way.
- well deserved upvote... well deserved.

Keep hammering him on everything. Whiny ass Trump can't take being hated.

This is what his supporters want, to be told to shut up. That's Trump "telling it like it is". They hate it when leaders feign sympathy.

Everybody hates it when people feign sympathy.
The thing I'm still trying to figure out about MAGAs is, do they hate it when leaders show genuine sympathy or disbelieve that it's possible at all?
- It's a bit of both, for sure.
  I think they'd be attracted to genuine sympathy, which is why there's crossover between Trump and Bernie supporters.

Here's a picture of egg prices on Saturday March eighth, twenty twenty-five (03/08/2025).

This is in SoCal at Aldi which typically has the lowest prices in the area.

Image transcription: picture of the cost of a dozen eggs on a fridge door in an Aldi grocery store, reading eight dollars and twelve cents.

Limit two eggs per customer
- $4 per egg. :(
SoCal at Aldi
California in particular has higher prices than most of the US because California has minimum cage size mandates, so can't just sell eggs pulled from the broader pool of US eggs. There's still a shortage in the broader US, but it's not as bad as in California.
There's a limited amount that any one retailer can do about that.
That also apparently passed as a constitutional amendment to California's constitution, via a referendum from voters, so I don't think that even California's legislature could do much about it --- they'd have to send another proposition to amend the state constitution to the voter, or get a two-thirds supermajority in both houses.
I'd add that I'm not a huge fan of California's heavy use of the initiative and referendum, which has led to a lot of the laws that I don't think are a fantastic idea in California --- I think that legislators typically do a better job of evaluating laws than voters giving a quick skim of a law's title.
It looks like the restrictions only apply to retailers. So in theory, if you wanted to take a trip across state lines to Nevada or Arizona with some coolers and ice, you could legally pick up all the eggs you can use and bring them back to Southern California. Maybe do one bulk trip for friends and family too, doubt that that violates the law either.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2025/02/12/egg-prices-arizona-compare/78416333007/
Arizona consumers have seen the price of eggs increase over the past weeks as the bird flu outbreak continues.
However, Arizonans are actually paying less for a dozen eggs than consumers in states like California, Florida and Texas.
Arizona:
Fry's/Kroger
Eggland's Best Cage Free Large White Eggs: $4.39
Eggland's Best Cage Free Extra Large White Eggs: $4.79
Santa Clara, California
Walmart
Egglands Best Grade A Cage Free Large Brown Eggs: $9.26
Egglands Best Grade A Cage Free Large White Eggs: $9.20
- I mean, egg prices aren't normally THAT much different though. Here's a picture from the same Aldi, on July 30, 2024.
  $2.97
  (I like to take pictures of egg prices)

He's making egg prices great again, I guess.

Where's the Trump "I did this" stickers like I saw at gas pumps with Biden, anyway? At least this one would have some semblance of truth to it, with the bird flu mismanagement.

The lack of response to the bird flu is clearly the speculation driver here.

Multiple economists overwhelmingly stated that his policy proposals were inflationary. MAGA accused them of being "liberals" and disregarded their warnings as fake. Working people aren't going to be saving anything unless it's by a sheer cut back in their spending as they try to save money. And of course saving won't matter if Trump axes FDIC.

But Biden caused it all during his term… Fuck this guy, I wish he would shut up just in general

First: tax Musk and then give us all millions, then we can talk about the millions you are saving us.

Might want to adjust your wording; it sounds like you think muskrat's billions could be divided among all 300+ million people in the US and result in millions of dollars each, which obviously is not how that works. If that is in fact what you think and not just ambiguous wording, then definitely go run through the math again real quick
- It was satire, if orange man can exaggerate the "savings" I can exaggerate the millions we would get, but if all billionaires were taxed correctly the resulting influx of money would definitely help offset the cost of eggs.
- Maybe not, but we would each get about 700k in assets if we taxes the billionaires out of existence.
  This would crash the economy though, as normies sell. I prefer the way China does it, where the government just puts party members on the company board to make the company align with country interests

Im gonna need you to get all the way off my back on this /s (pitch meeting reference)

"I will fix everything by being a dictator on day one."

Gullable idiots.

Next on TV: "There is no discussion about egg prizes. Eggs don't even exist!"

Ha ha ha the Orange Turd can’t even get egg prices down.

Imagine how many suckers there must be, if a serial liar gets voted into office twice. Then imagine all the people who didn't register to vote, or registered and didn't vote.

Overall, groceries have gone up significantly in price over the last few years. I don't really get why eggs are what everyone is talking about, though. It seems like the public discourse right now is all about "Eggs cost too much!" and not "It costs too much to eat." Why eggs? If eggs are too expensive, maybe eat something else?

Eggs are in a whole lot of the food we eat, plus they were a cheap staple people can use to get protein. Go shopping this week and just don't buy any food that has eggs in it. See how it goes.
The main sticking point here is that egg production is only down like 4% due to bird flu but they're up from a couple dollars a dozen to a dozen dollars per dozen. Something stinks, and it ain't the eggs.
- dont forgot that eggs are used in vaccines too, they are use for viral replication for many viruses so we can produce viable vaccines.
- Have been eggfree for about 7 years. There are viable substitutes. Tofu can be prepared as a good egg substitute. It'll never be exactly the same, but you get used to it. I like it because no chickens were treated like shit during its manufacture.
If all trump and vance talked about is eggs. Then eggs are what we're going to talk about
and then theres shrinkflation going on too.