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.
The lack of response to the bird flu is clearly the speculation driver here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trump take egg :,(
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.
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.
It was never about egg prices for them, either. They just used that as their excuse so they didn’t have to publicly admit they just really like bigotry and hate.
sexism and bigotry was thier only motive. they cant even give a straight answer why they dint vote for Kamala, most of it was “i dont like her”
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Those of us that have had to listen to their bullshit at holidays and other family gatherings for 50 years have been kindly letting them know.
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lol those of us that have done the work can break free. Looks like maybe you still have a ways to go too
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One thing to keep in mind is that some of us also grew up poor and with extreme neglect and trauma. I actually feel closer to people of color, and immigrants, than I do with my own white Americans. Marginalized people stick together.
The point that they’re making is that it’s a never-ending process to be aware of and guard against, and those who think that they’ve accomplished being “not racist” are often people who actively are racist and don’t see it. Think the liberal speaking over people about their own wants and needs.
Yes, and I was letting them see that they were doing largely the same thing themselves, by not knowing who they were speaking with or where they are coming from.
It’s one of the reasons I’m glad my grandma is dead.
She was a devout catholic for her whole life, even winning awards for her service to the church.
When the pope condemned Trump’s border policies in his first term, she had the audacity to say, “The pope needs to mind his own business.”
I would have hated to be around her in 2020 onwards. She would have been a Nazi even though my grandfather was Jewish.
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.
His reality distortion field is collapsing.
I swore I’d post this everytime Charlie Kirk gets mentioned, so here I am:
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and he still goes to certain colleges to give his right wing talks too, much like shapiro sitll does.
He lives like a capitalist every single day Shane
I looked at the code for this a couple nights ago, the whole Navy seal copypasta is in there, lol.
For the uninitiated:
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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.
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.
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.
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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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?
Limit two eggs per customer
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.
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.
We need both, and community organizing turns into party primaries really quick.
Realistically, US can’t wait 4 years if want survive.
He’s making egg prices great again, I guess.
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.”
Victims are always held to higher standards.
Yeah. It’s one of the great mysteries of conservative politics IMO.
They just magically get to be “better economic managers” despite any facts to the contrary.
The problem with the economic message from Biden and Harris was they celebrated like they had solved the economy. But the average family was still struggling. If they had said something like, “We are happy to see the economy land without a recession; That is a victory we have all achieved, and now we can do the same thing for the working class, etc etc” it wouldn’t have been such a bloodbath every time they took a victory lap on the stock market line and current year inflation.
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
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edit: above was in response to this comment from “another” user.
The left would rather see Trump fail than to have America succeed.
The left are out destroying Tesla’s and their dealerships and bombing Trump hotels, but use Jan 6th as a scapegoat when challenged.
If the Left can’t have it their way, they would rather have everyone fail. A bunch of spoiled brats throwing a tantrum when they can’t have drag queen story hour and transwomen in women’s restrooms.
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.
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
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?
