‘Shut up about egg prices’: Trump shares brazen message about high costs
‘Shut up about egg prices’: Trump shares brazen message about high costs
The president posted a column from conservative activist Charlie Kirk telling people to stop complaining about egg prices.
Summary
Trump recently shared a provocative column on Truth Social titled "Shut Up About Egg Prices — Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions," written by conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
This comes despite Trump's campaign promises to reduce grocery costs "immediately" and "on Day 1." Egg prices have soared to record highs, averaging $4.95/dozen in January and exceeding $10/dozen in some regions, leading to purchase limits and shortages.
While bird flu has significantly impacted prices by killing millions of chickens since 2022, 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.
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.
Realistically, US can't wait 4 years if want survive.
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.
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's making egg prices great again, I guess.
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.
"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
“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.
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?
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.
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.
Broadly speaking it's nearly impossible for a US president to directly fix the economy, but they can easily break it.
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.
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.
...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.
Oh but we are going to let him get away with it, just like we've allowed him to get away with everything in his first term. This piece of shit is going to die like a wet fart and we're going to allow it. Because we're mostly sayers, not doers. We'll say we'll do this, but won't do it. We keep hoping for karma or some invisible deity to come in and save us, but it won't ever happen.
The reason Trump is ever in office both times, was because he is the poster-boy for hate, bigotry, ignorance and all things that incels, racists, xenophobes and bigots all look up to. They feel if he's office, they get to get away with everything because there'll be nobody or nothing to slow them down and this administration will enable it.
God fucking bless america. /s
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.
Ok let's talk about the recession instead
And there you have it, you stupid fucking 71 million americans, who ever believed this fuckface promised you about lowering egg prices. When it's never been about that, it has mainly been about fulfilling the crooked policies he wanted to do and is currently doing. Keep eating them high costs, you stupid fucks. And you'll still justify your reasoning for having voted for this guy because it's voter's remorse at this point.
I was watching some jubilee youtube content (do not recommend) but the number one thing i have to say about conservatives is they suffer from some crazy form of indignation. Like, these were recorded pre-election and one guy was outright furious that kamala was campaigning as if project 2025 was trumps plan. Never mind it's plain to see that would be their plan. Never mind that is exactly what we are seeing today. This same guy, if I stopped him on the street today would be mad about something entirely different and never even take a second to recognize how massively wrong he was. Jus' out there being indignant about some other meaningless gop grievance.
You’re off by about 6 million on the voting number, but I mostly agree with the rest of your point. Only other thing I’d push back on is that statement that this is only Trump’s doing. I believe the Conservative Party has been moving toward this moment for decades, with or without Trump. He’s just a great tool for them.
The lack of response to the bird flu is clearly the speculation driver here.
It's almost like he lied just to get into office and then do whatever he wanted.
He lied openly and his voterbase ate it the fuck up. Ate everything, unquestioned. Standing there with their stupid thick skulls nodding unashamedly "UH HUH! YUP! U DU U TRUMP, U HAVE MUH VOTE!".
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.
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.
Can't Trump just declare the bird flu as nonsense like COVID? That'll surely fix the prices.
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.
Birds... Migrations.... Immigrants! There ... blame deflection complete in two steps only.
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.
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.
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?
:/
soon
He just needs 4 years, and he promises he’ll get to it next term. /s
Right after infrastructure week.
I swore I'd post this everytime Charlie Kirk gets mentioned, so here I am:
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For the uninitiated:
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Charlie Kirk dropped out of an Evangelical junior college that is widely recognized as a degree mill.
He lives like a capitalist every single day Shane
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.
His reality distortion field is collapsing.
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.
Im gonna need you to get all the way off my back on this /s (pitch meeting reference)
Gullable idiots.
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.
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. :(
I see they're treating eggs like they're toilet paper with the limit customer sign. Did they think these are flying off the shelf? Who's buying these, egg scalpers?
Tbh, I don't think they really care or enforce the limit.
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.
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
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Eggland's Best Cage Free Large White Eggs: $4.39
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Eggland's Best Cage Free Extra Large White Eggs: $4.79
Santa Clara, California
Walmart
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Egglands Best Grade A Cage Free Large Brown Eggs: $9.26
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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)
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Trump take egg :,(
Keep hammering him on everything. Whiny ass Trump can't take being hated.
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.....
See, things like this really make want me to require some kind of test to vote. Before you all dogpile me, yes, I know it's bad.
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American."
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.
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.
Ha ha ha the Orange Turd can’t even get egg prices down.
Next on TV: "There is no discussion about egg prizes. Eggs don't even exist!"
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
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
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.
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.
If all trump and vance talked about is eggs. Then eggs are what we're going to talk about
