‘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.
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
Ehh.. A lot of those states were blue.
Still doesn't mean I don't think it’s justified.
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?
The lack of response to the bird flu is clearly the speculation driver here.
"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!
America, the only country dumb enough to fall for a rapist felon's promises...twice.
blind men following the one-eyed dumbass.
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.
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.
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.
Ok let's talk about the recession instead
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.
...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
Gullable idiots.
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.
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.
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.
Can't Trump just declare the bird flu as nonsense like COVID? That'll surely fix the prices.
Birds... Migrations.... Immigrants! There ... blame deflection complete in two steps only.
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.
Im gonna need you to get all the way off my back on this /s (pitch meeting reference)
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.
I swore I'd post this everytime Charlie Kirk gets mentioned, so here I am:
Charlie Kirk dropped out of an Evangelical junior college that is widely recognized as a degree mill.
I looked at the code for this a couple nights ago, the whole Navy seal copypasta is in there, lol.
He lives like a capitalist every single day Shane
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.
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.
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.
His reality distortion field is collapsing.
Ha ha ha the Orange Turd can’t even get egg prices down.
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.
Trump take egg :,(
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.
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.
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 trumped and vance talked about is eggs. Then eggs are what we're going to talk about
