An article the president reposted on Truth Social contends that inflation isn’t as severe as critics suggest.
  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2921·
    9 days ago

    Yeah, you hear that, PEASANTS? Shut the fuck up about the prices of things, and TAKE IT. Show some goddamn respect for your BETTERS.

    Billionaires need some peace and quiet while they divvy up the country’s spoils amongst each other. Spoils from YOUR hard labor, by the way.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      65·
      9 days ago

      High egg prices are doubleplusgood.

      In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.

      • NotLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
        30·
        9 days ago

        Eggs have always cost this much. Under Biden, they cost more. All hail Big trumper for lowering egg prices! /s

    • Lit@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 days ago

      Elon is triggered… so talk more about eggs. Publish and share more egg recipes and recommend more dishes with eggs in them.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        I think you’re only allowed to do that if you’re an immigrant. If you’re an American, you’re legally obliged to uncritically consume absolute nonsense propaganda and be super racist towards said immigrants.

  • blackberry@midwest.socialEnglish
    105·
    9 days ago

    saved you a click:

    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.”

      • earphone843@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1541·
        9 days ago

        I mean, the price increase of eggs is largely because of the bird flu. I criticize him at every opportunity, but he doesn’t have a ton of control over that.

        • mvmike@lemmy.ml
          941·
          9 days ago

          Well, he made the cost of eggs one of his main campaign topics. He had absolute control over that.

        • hopesdead@startrek.website
          30·
          9 days ago

          There are people who will argue about bird flu influencing the price. However, when it comes to the Trump Administration, they will only blame the previous administration. They won’t try to take any responsibility for failing to meet the expectations of lowering the price that they promised.

        • klemptor@startrek.website
          26·
          9 days ago

          I think bird flu is a convenient excuse for price gouging, just like we saw during pandemic. He could easily address that if he wanted to. He just doesn’t care.

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          22·
          9 days ago

          When he ran on that specific thing he better figure it out. And why is America seeing increases when other places are not?

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 days ago

            I’ve been wondering that, especially for Canada- how have they kept avian flu from jumping the border? Someone said they tend to have more smaller farms with more room per chicken, rather than relatively few giant factory farms

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          9 days ago

          Egg supplies in the US are down like 5%. The price bullshit isn’t just from that.

          EDIT: Because I know some people will want some hard numbers, I looked some up quickly.

          USDA report puts some hard numbers on American egg production (Published: February 20, 2025, so these are 2024 numbers)

          The average number of egg-laying hens fell to 375 million, a 2 percent drop from the previous year, while egg production declined 1 percent to 109 billion eggs. The total U.S. chicken inventory also decreased by 2 percent, reaching 514 million birds.

          Despite a modest rise in broiler chicken prices, egg prices have surged. In late January, the wholesale price for large eggs in New York soared to $7.46 per dozen — more than double last year’s $2.94. USDA now projects an annual average egg price of $4.44 per dozen.

          Highly pathogenic avian influenza remains a major driver of price fluctuations. Though the report does not account for recent bird losses in 2025, economist Bernt Nelson of the American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that 43 million birds were lost in January and February alone — representing 25 percent of all birds affected since the outbreak began in 2022. These losses suggest continued price volatility as producers work to rebuild flocks.

          https://www.agdaily.com/livestock/poultry/usda-report-puts-hard-numbers-on-american-egg-production/

          Now, the article does mention the recent bird infections being higher at 25%, however look at the specific wording used. “representing 25 percent of all birds affected since the outbreak began in 2022”. So it’s saying the recent infections and kills represent that amount from the last 2+ years of avian flu infections, not a sudden spike of 25% of the current supply.

        • DogWater@lemmy.world
          71·
          9 days ago

          The down votes are because people are mad that you’re right.

          However they made it a campaign issue so it’s fair game

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            6·
            8 days ago

            Exactly, you run on the claim that you’ll plummet egg prices immediately, you better plummet egg prices immediately. And more importantly you better not pull out the exact same line the previous administration gave for why they’re high, even if it’s true

              • sporkler@lemmy.world
                1·
                8 days ago

                Ideally I want him to have not made something out of his control into a campaign promise that his supporters believed, but since he did, he should own it.

                Or do we give him a pass because a reasonable adult wouldn’t believe anything he says is true?

    • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
      36·
      9 days ago

      “Trump is already hard at work to deliver savings for American families.”

      Yes, we know. All 735 of the billionaire families will receive savings at the very least. Thank you for your generosity.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    95·
    9 days ago

    I voted for Trump because he Promised to LOWER Egg Prices and I STILL support Trump after he told me to SHUT UP and ACCEPT these Super High Egg Prices! I think for MYSELF!

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      261·
      9 days ago

      MYSELF

      I really could not stop laughing from earlier today (I think it was the Young Turks podcast I was listening to) when I heard them play some crazy bullshit from the State Media Television and someone was talking, in the context of little d destroying our economy with tariffs, about how this will be just more of “Biden’s economy” if things get painful due to what little d is doing to us.

      I mean, seriously. I guess Biden made little d play his tariff game? But I’m sure there are a non-zero amount of redcaps that watch that shit and nod their heads to it.

      • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        9 days ago

        The only reason the redcaps nod their head in response to information is to make sure the air doesn’t escape through the ears

    • Azzu@lemm.ee
      82·
      9 days ago

      I really hope most people got this reference :)

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        10·
        9 days ago

        Our education system is bad, but it’s not “don’t teach about the French revolution” bad. Hell my high school even made a point to point out that Antoinette was a teenager who likely didn’t actually say that

        • dion_starfire@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          If it was truly her that said it, she would have been even younger than that. The book in which it’s written (which is known to not be fully factual and in which the quote is attributed to “a great princess”) was written when Antoinette was 9 years old. But it wasn’t published until she was 26, eight years after she became queen.

          “If they have no bread, let them eat cake.” sounds like something I would expect a 6-7yo who had never gone without luxury food to say.

          • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            sounds like something I would expect a 6-7yo who had never gone without luxury food to say

            You mean like Elon’s toddler son?

        • andros_rex@lemmy.world
          11·
          8 days ago

          Ah, but online high schools/credit recovery. The French Revolution is often covered in a fifteen minute video with four multiple choice questions and a short response (which is almost always turned in with an obviously AI generated answer, and marked with 100% because there’s no longer an expectation that a teacher be qualified to teach their subject - a high school diploma is enough in Oklahoma)

          I’d met with a high schooler over zoom (thirty minutes once a week was the requirement) - “hey, tell me what you thought about that American Civil War unit you just completed?” - and they wouldn’t be able to name the century the war happened, had no idea who Abraham Lincoln was, couldn’t name the Confederacy - hell, didn’t recognize that the American Civil War happened in the United States.

          My current role as a tutor (because most high schools would rather have an unqualified high school grad that a transsexual union member with a masters degree - and tbh, getting a school bomb threats on the off chance that LibsOfTikTok targets me is not a risk I feel I can expose others too) shocks me. You have long term subs that don’t understand the pre algebra concepts teaching Algebra 2 and Pre Calc. (Every time I hear the term “cross multiply” I cringe in preparation for the horror I’m about to see)

          But yes - education is 100% that bad in southern states.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 days ago

            I can’t imagine anything she could’ve reasonably done in the environment she lived in that wouldn’t’ve been deeply offensive to the peasantry. Versailles was at its core a tool to insulate the nobility and separate them from reality. Her life and death were tragic, not because of some condemnation of the poor who killed her, but because they weren’t even wrong to do so and yet this teenager who was probably one of the least evil people at Versailles had to be the one to pay the price for the systems crafted by people like Louis XIV and Maria Theresa Hapsburg.

            The republic was necessary. The fall of bourbon was necessary. The people were right to be mad. But there is a tragedy in how some people are corrupted and broken by power they wouldn’t have asked for and have to pay the price for it

  • meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    77·
    9 days ago

    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.

    🐱🐱

  • 60d@lemmy.caEnglish
    47·
    8 days ago

    “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.

      • 60d@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Nice! That would make a great cartoon!

        Krasnov pledges to bring prices down in panel 1. He has a bunch of MAGA voting for him in panel 2. In panel 3, he slaps tariffs on and off. In panel 4 we see him self-congratulatory while stonks go down brrrrrr.

  • Jolly Platypus@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    8 days ago

    We handed the country over to a dictator because of eggs. The least he could do to say thank you is lower their prices.

    • Bonzaibongo@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      just goes to show you that he doesn’t give two shot about anyone but himself, and SOMETIMES his family…. 1/3rd of america voted for this, because they wanted to be able to discriminate again.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      13·
      8 days ago

      All of the Facebook groups I’m in for keeping backyard chickens are infested with conspiracy loons. They think the bird flu isn’t real, and that the culls are a ploy to get us to eat fake meat.

      So we probably are going to have an outbreak - the same fuckers who refused to wear masks sure as hell aren’t going to safely handle sick chickens. Time to invest in ivermectin stock I guess.

    • Bytemite@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 days ago

      Sounds like a good way to spread avian flu, though I guess Fox News probably doesn’t care about that.

      Also there was an article I saw that ran the numbers, and it would take way too many chickens plus selling some of the eggs for that to break even for most families.

  • Graphy@lemmy.world
    25·
    9 days ago

    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

    • papertowels@mander.xyz
      8·
      9 days ago

      Holy shit I didn’t see that on the horizon. That’ll be great…

      Jokes about the eggs made of gold etc etc

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      31·
      9 days ago

      If I keep posting this every time there are egg related political news stories, maybe it’ll come true?

      I put together a little short story about how I would like to see Donald Trump meet his demise. Drowning in eggs:

      The Eggsecution.

      The once-proud leader, now stripped of title and dignity, stands in the center of the barren, concrete abyss. The abandoned Olympic swimming pool—thirty feet deep, dry as bone—has become their final stage. Above, the gathered masses stretch in every direction, a writhing sea of anticipation.

      They do not jeer. They do not boo.

      They simply chant.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      It starts as a murmur, a low thrum of human voices vibrating in unison. Then it grows, swelling into a deafening roar that rattles windows, that shudders in the bones of every person present. A chant as ancient as it is absurd, a single-minded invocation of punishment.

      The first egg arcs high overhead, tracing a lazy curve before splattering against the fallen leader’s shoulder. The yolk bursts, oozing down his baggy, ugly, now-useless suit. A streak of yellow, the first of many.

      Another egg. Then another.

      Then dozens.

      The first impacts make them flinch, stagger—hands raised in a futile shield. But soon there are too many to dodge, too many to deflect. They curl inward as the sky rains viscous judgment. The chant never stops.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      Shells crack. Yolk drips. The scent of sulfur and shame thickens in the stagnant air. It coats their skin, their hair, their pride, turning them into something less than human. Something… egg-like.

      At the top of the pit, a child—no older than seven—steps forward. They hold their egg with both hands, cradling it like something precious. Reverent. With a deliberate motion, they lob it downward. It strikes the leader square on the forehead, exploding with an almost musical plap. The crowd erupts into a fresh crescendo of cheers, but the chant never falters.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      No escape. No reprieve. The pit is smooth concrete, slick now with raw egg and humiliation. They can do nothing but stand there, endure, become part of the ritual.

      Somewhere in the throng, a vendor hawks boiled eggs. Another sells cartons to the unprepared. A man in a chicken suit waves encouragingly at the crowd.

      The night wears on, but the spectacle does not end.

      It cannot end.

      Not until the last egg is thrown. Not until the last voice is hoarse.

      Not until the world is rid of this one, failed leader, broken not by swords or exile, but by the inescapable weight of public yolk and scorn.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      • cyphear@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        9 days ago

        Do you have a blog? I would subscribe and actively donate to your cause.