President Donald Trump promised cheaper groceries when he took office, but two months in, it seems the president is sick of all the complaining. To make his point, the president shared an article from the Daily Caller on Truth Social titled “Shut Up About Egg Prices — Trump Is Saving Consumers” that minimizes concerns about the increasing cost of eggs. The article, written by right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk, concedes that “a dozen currently costs around $7, up from just $2 in October.” However, Kirk contends that inflation during Trump’s presidency isn’t as severe as critics suggest and tells voters to stop whining. “The high price of eggs is in no way President Trump’s fault,” Kirk writes. “Almost all the increase took place during Biden’s final months in office.” The pro-Trump article further defended the president, saying, “Trump is already hard at work to deliver savings for American families.”
Imagine campaigning on ‘immediate relief’ and then reposting an article that screams ‘suck it up.’ Iconic failure. Missed opportunities to explore potential solutions or broader economic implications.
“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.
This is what Murca needs. More lies and long cons. Murca was lied to, and Krasnov only needed 1/3 of them to fall for it.
It's so incredible that everything was bidens fault day one of his presidency, but with Trump it's the fault of the previous administration, and no body brings up this double standard at all. What a double standard.
Also, we all know that Trump can't lower the price of eggs himself, just like biden couldn't lower gas prices by himself. The fact that Trump and his ilk RAN on lowering grocery prices, especially eggs, is why we're still talking about it and why a lot of Americans are upset. Now the right are calling us idiots and whiners for still talking about eggs while they are still going up, while the last 4 years nobody on that side could shut up about gas prices.
They put those 'biden did this' stickers on pumps until the final moments of his administration, I say we do the same to eggs.
What’s funny is I was just thinking about how all the news sites are itching to drop their Easter egg story so we’re about to hear a lot more about eggs
Hm. Maybe I should buy Trump and Musk "We did that." stickers, and add them to price tags while shopping? After all, they shut down the agencies meant to control bird flu, meat inspection, and so many other things...
When the Democrats said "What are you talking about? The economy is doing great!" the rightoids correctly called this shit out. Now that it's Trump doing it, I wonder what the response will be?
The frustrating thing here is that it was possible to know that the President doesn't really have a lot of power over the price of things before the election, and not vote based on something that Trump can't fix. "All Presidents must answer for the price of $ITEM" is a terrible way to vote.
I'm as against trump as anyone else, but let's say your candidate of choice was just put in power a month ago, would you expect new economic policies to have lowered the price of something nationwide? What's the historical precedent for something like that? Biden releasing strategic reserve of oil comes to mind, and IIRC that didn't put a dent in prices.
I worry that folks making a big deal out of this at this point in time are effectively being the same as the "I did this" Biden sticker folks, and idk about you but I sure thought they were asshats. Six months down the line, sure, hold him accountable for what he ran for. But idk how much economic impact a president has in two months time.