'Shut Up About Egg Prices': Trump Shares Brazen Message About High Costs

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Mar 10, 2025, 02:35 AM EDT


President Donald Trump, who promised to cut the cost of groceries on his first day in office, now seems to have a much different take on high prices as he shared a column with a very blunt headline: “Shut Up About Egg Prices ― Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions.” Trump posted a link to the Feb. 17 article, written by right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, on his Truth Social website over the weekend:

Egg prices have reached record highs in recent weeks, averaging $4.95 a dozen in January and passing $10 per dozen in some parts of the country. Grocery stores in places have put limits on egg purchases, and some have run out of them entirely. A number of restaurants have even tacked egg surcharges onto the check.

In the column published by The Daily Caller, Kirk argues that egg prices are not Trump’s fault. They’re not. At least, not entirely. Prices have been see-sawing since 2022, with much of the increase since due to the impact of bird flu, which has killed millions of chickens. Millions more have been culled the stop the virus from spreading.

However, Trump campaigned heavily on not just cutting prices, but doing so on his very first day in office. “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 some month. He backed away from that last month.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-egg-prices_n_67ce541be4b0bf4ec79c2d01

[Lonestarblue]

1. Trump isn't saving us anything.

The workers fired were doing work, which will now be outsourced to companies owned by friends of Trump at much higher costs and lower performance because they will have no experience.

[underpants]

8. He's costing people in these areas

Aside from the immediate housing, food, debt the people fired are facing there’s the money they spend usually everyday. Lunches, dinners, coffees, impulse buys at the gas station and drug stores when getting prescriptions. That’s a loss to those businesses. The secondary threat of firings due to this is real. The loss of sales tax to the state and localities (which they are counting on) will affect the same communities.

I’m not saying that these examples justify employment but we aren’t just saving salary and benefits we are paying for them.

[Hieronymus Phact]

17. even more...

A friends wife works for the CDC. They fired 40% of her team. She immediately started putting out resumes. Who want's to work in an atmosphere like that?

[FalloutShelter]

19. My niece is high up at Social Security

She has had her resume out there since Election Day. Everyone knew this was coming and there is chaos and depression in the department.

She is defiant and is wearing a tee shirt with a meme that is a red Swingline stapler with the words COME AND TAKE IT, that has been making the rounds in the social media of Government workers. (Office Space reference)

[BoRaGard]

2. Rasnov (R) lied to America

as always.

Repubes are cool with BEARING FALSE WITNESS

Even if Jesus tells them they will to to Hell for their lies

[UpInArms]

3. I'll shut up when TFG goes to prison

eom

[bucolic_frolic]

4. A Trump egg is 50 cents! A Trump egg is 50 cents! A Trump egg is 50 cents! A Trump egg is 50 cents!

A Trump egg is 50 cents!

[Walleye]

5. They keep blaming it on Biden having chickens killed. That was six or seven weeks ago. There has been time to raise more

Laying hens by the hundreds of thousands, if it weren’t for the disease. It was not Biden‘s fault.

[underpants]

6. We live in a world where Charlie Kirk is considered relevant and is referenced by a President of the United States

This was my favorite part of the article:
“…. egg prices are not Trump’s fault. They’re not. ”

Perfectly summing up the childishness.

[lonely bird]

12. Agreed

Charlie Kirk is another grifter and an idiot.

[Moostache]

37. My thoughts exactly...Charlie Kirk? That smug gas-bag?

The only expertise that clown has is being an insufferable piece of shit with an elevated opinion of himself and a denigrating attitude towards everyone not exactly (white) like him. If we allow that kind of partisan hack with no skills or value to become arbiters of important discussions, this country is dead forever.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

7. This guy ever set foot in a grocery store for the purpose of purchasing anything?

I'm honestly curious.

[not fooled]

38. There are apps

for what these GQPee creeps purchase.

[Cheezoholic]

9. "I did that" FatAss stickers seven bucks on Amazon. Got mine last week lol

Cheaper than a dozen eggs in some places

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Tired of all the winning fascade

[ReRe]

11. I wonder

what all the little magas think about this? That they need to shut up about egg prices, let alone all the rest of the high prices?

[DemMedic]

13. "I Don't Care About You, I Just Want Your Vote"- DJT June 2024

Duh, we told them that too, Donny!

[bdamomma]

14. If eggs

Weren't so expensive I would throw a dozen at him. He just doesn't care about anyone except himself.

[travelingthrulife]

15. Trying to get us back to talking about eggs instead of the devastation he and Musk

are causing.

I sort of wish people would quit harping on it as well. Why would anyone believe a campaign promise of lowering the price of groceries on Day 1? Of course that wouldn't happen.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. The problem is that the media BLAMED Biden for "economic problems" and

"Price of eggs".

-despite historically low unemployment, interest rates down, and inflation tamed.

The media promoted and magnified 45's nonsense as iron clad "truths" (just like they are doing RIGHT NOW regarding the legality of all these layoffs and buyouts - some reluctantly indicating that this is illegal but only doing so in the last paragraphs of their articles), and we could not break through that because we own no big media outlets.

The Democratic Party campaign has insisted that Americans "are concerned about the economy" while we are watching how the brainwashed masses are more concerned about RW caricatures of "illegal aliens invading", "DEI", "CRT", "Trans rights", and any of their other bullshit mischaracterizations of civil rights.

[bullimiami]

16. Charlie Kirk is a real bastard. He cares for nothing except winning an argument.

His primary skill and his reason for being.

[IronLionZion]

20. Suck it up losers

Woke transgender DEI hens are too lazy to work. Fire the hens and replace them with merit-based highly qualified roosters to lay eggs!

[BumRushDaShow]

21. ....

(I'm glad I wasn't sipping my water when I read that! )

[IronLionZion]

22. White roosters only

brown hens need not apply

[BumRushDaShow]

24. !!!

[IronLionZion]

26. ROFL!

[BumRushDaShow]

28. And...

[3825-87867]

23. Ok, Yeah...

when men can physically have babies!
Women can do EVERYTHING a man can do.
Guess men CAN'T do EVERYTHING after all!

[IronLionZion]

25. If we're going to do handmaid's tale, men can be the handmaids

[BumRushDaShow]

33. "when men can physically have babies!"

I remember actually seeing this in the theater years ago -

( "young Billy Crystal" )

[Norrrm]

29. Oh, No! Hens are DEI.

[progree]

27. And not saving our 401k's and retirement hopes either, Wall Street Down 1.29% at 847 AM CDT

from Friday's close
S&P 500
Down 1.6% since election day,
and down 5.1% since inauguration day eve,
and down 3.3% year to date,
and down 7.4% from all-time high
https://finance.yahoo.com/

"Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions.”

Update at 858 AM CDT: Down 1.42%
Update at 904 AM CDT: Down 1.78%

[IronLionZion]

31. Trump is lowering prices

of stocks

[C_U_L8R]

30. He's driving prices down alright

Just look at the stock market... Trump is driving it down into the abyss. Taking the whole country with it.

[marble falls]

32. Do not promise what one cannot deliver.

[vapor2]

34. Disturbing words from Richard hudson

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WTF?

[ToxMarz]

36. Trump isn't saving consumers anything

and that's not even what he's trying to do.

IF he saves anything, it is being done to fund a tax break for billionaires. Consumers will get NO benefit, they will just pay for it.
IF he saves nothing, he is still intent on giving the tax break to billionaires, consumers and economy be damned.

And as a bonus, he is using his cuts as a weapon targeting anyone and everyone he dislikes, doesn't show him due reverence, or wins him points (support) from "the base".

Win/win in his book.

[usonian]

39. FAFO

[58Sunliner]

40. I'll shut up when he's dead, maybe. Nasty pos.

[royable]

41. Believe ME ME ME ME ME! Not your lying wallet, bank account and retirement account! n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. Keep on repeating that Donny boy