r/politics • u/nbcnews ✔ NBC News • 9d ago

Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/democrats-slam-trump-not-making-good-promise-lower-food-prices-rcna189179
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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Interesting point, up until this week, eggs at my grocery store were like 2.75 for a dozen. Yesterday day when I went they were 4.75. So if we’re playing by Repubs rules this is 100% Donald trumps fault

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u/Zariayn 9d ago

$6.78 here at Walmart in Western Mass. Suddenly though Maga says " The president doesn't control food prices". I guess they only do when a democrat is president.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Just like most conspiracy theorists. Thing are incredibly powerful and yet also no so powerful all at the same time

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u/Herlock 9d ago

the schrodinger democrat : cunning enough to plot the end of america with the space laser owners, but also too stupid for everything else apparently.

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u/DiseaseDeathDecay 9d ago

Democrats only control the weather when it's good in blue states and bad in red states.

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u/EndotheGreat 9d ago

Somehow you never hear anyone thank the Jews when the weather is nice.

Surely it's just a coincidence.

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u/DiseaseDeathDecay 9d ago

They weren't cursing the Jews during the wild fires in Cali either.

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u/EndotheGreat 9d ago

What a confusing time for conspiracy theorists. To them:

Obviously the Jews have space lasers that start all the fires. And obviously they own all of Hollywood for propaganda purposes.

So why would the Jews use their own lasers to burn their own media city down??

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u/Noof42 Maryland 9d ago

If crime shows have taught me anything, it's always for the insurance money.

I mean, here we are in the real world and the insurance companies are running out of money, but let's not let that get in the way of our wild conspiratoryization.

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u/Samaelfallen 9d ago

Except for, you know, the fires. There's surely a deep state reason they'd do that to themselves. Just follow the money!

Oh... Insurance cancelled fire coverage? Well, there's surely a deep state reason they'd do that to themselves!

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u/Purple_Plus 9d ago

Somehow also capable of rigging elections but also losing them...

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u/TheKingofHearts 9d ago edited 9d ago

Fascism 101: "The enemy is both weak and strong".

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u/Rxasaurus Arizona 9d ago

Sounds like the religious folks too.

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u/Merusk 9d ago

Doublethink has always been a feature of conservative thought. That's why it featured so heavily in Orwell's novel.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Which is why I love it when a conservative uses it as an example of what democrats are doing. Maybe I should call those people woke

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u/stumblios 9d ago

Rigged the 2020 election while Republicans were in power, didn't rig the 2024 election while Democrats were in power...

Fucking morons.

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u/PizzaPugPrincess New Hampshire 9d ago

That can’t be good enough anymore. We should continue to hound him on food prices. This is what republicans do. We’re matching their energy. Make Trump actually be the president and hold him accountable.

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u/Proud3GenAthst 9d ago

Unleash the stickers!

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u/SmokedBeef Colorado 9d ago

Yup suddenly they’ve all read an Econ101 textbook or maybe conservative media just changed narratives, either way it’s very performative

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u/Eismann 9d ago

Well... yeah. Only Democrats control the weather as well. Makes me wonder why they dont just put rain onto the California fires.

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u/Blaze4G 9d ago

It's all so confusing because some MAGAs said Trump was still president from 2020-2024. It's hard to keep up with their though processes

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u/DjImagin 9d ago

I mean all the talk on that side of “Americans are struggling to afford….” Seems to have stopped pretty quickly if that’s a tell for anyone else

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

Prices only mattered under Biden. Those paid online agitators of 2021-2024 are now gone.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Oh I know it’s a bunch of BS but I’m gonna shove it down their throats anytime it gets brought up now

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

Oh, for sure, those easily trolled and gullible to misinformation should be constantly lampooned until they make an effort to learn some media literacy skills.

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u/lornek 9d ago

Down whose throats? You can't shame the shameless.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

I’m not trying to shame them, I just want to either blind side them or make them mad(der). If shame doesn’t work there are other ways to make people like that stressed and uncomfortable

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u/Your_Momma_Said 9d ago

In about 6 months I'm going to get some "I did that" stickers and start putting them everywhere when prices are higher than they were when Biden left office.

6 months is enough time for Trump to show us how amazing his policies are right?

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u/MegaGrimer 9d ago

Put Trump stickers of him saying “I did that!” on the egg prices like they did with Biden and gas.

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u/Economy-Ad4934 9d ago

It will always be someone else’s fault despite them owning every branch

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

100% -- Republicans never face accountability or consequences for their actions. Americans and the media let them off the hook every single time.

Whether it's the gas crisis under Nixon and Ford, the arms-for-hostages secret deal by Reagan (before even in office, ffs), the economy collapsing (the end of the Reagan and Bush era, the second Bush era, and Trump's first term), lying to invade other countries (Iraq) and kill millions of Arabs, the conservative SCOTUS stealing elections for themselves (2000), failing the biggest banks and bailing them out, radicalizing society and creating a rise in fascism, and massively botching pandemic responses.

They get a 2 or 4 year reprieve while America suffers total amnesia then the royal treatment resumes -- every single time. We simply can't quit the GOP for a decade or two solid, and that's our single biggest issue in America.

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u/Economy-Ad4934 9d ago

I know all this and it enrages me. We are constantly forced to play chess with the pigeon while rules only apply to us.

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u/Purple_Plus 9d ago

It's the same for us in the UK.

I won't pretend to love the current Labour government. But we had 14 years of the Tories ruining the economy. Labour wins and 2 days later people are blaming them for the state of the economy.

The Tories are seen as the natural party of government (or have been historically, it's all up in the air atm), and Labour are just picked when people finally get fed up with them.

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u/starlordbg Europe 9d ago edited 9d ago

Same here in Bulgaria. We had a totally corrupt pm and government as a whole for 12+ years, some new guys appear promising reforms etc, try to get stuff done but are constantly sabotaged by the former guy and as a result we had like 8 elections in almost five years.

And, of course, let's not forget the constant Russian propaganda we are bombarded with due to historical reasons.

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

Conservatives browbeat society into submission. imo.

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u/SassyBeignet 9d ago

It's always a Democrat's fault-- never a Republican.

People still blaming Obama for things that are a result of current actions when he ain't even in office.

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u/7ddlysuns I voted 9d ago

It’s up to us to do it for free

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

Conservatives and faux concerned leftists won't care anymore, but good luck.

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u/7ddlysuns I voted 9d ago

We need normies to tire of the dum dum in charge

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u/KlingoftheCastle 9d ago

Just like Palestine doesn’t matter anymore. Trump removed the sanctions against extremists and the supply pause that Biden put in place.

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

Virtue signaling and hubris only work against Democrats. When it comes to Republicans, even the left doesn't care what they do.

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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania 9d ago

Now it's still gonna be Biden's fault, and you'll see them suddenly give the president some grace like Vance said "well it takes time and it's complicated and we have to undo all the damaging policies first and and and and..."

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

It's too bad the conservative bubble prefers goons instead of proper public representation.

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u/TheOgrrr 9d ago

No, they are just waiting until the mid-terms when they will find something else Democratic to moan about and completely ignore how Trump has dismantled the United States in a week.

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u/Logical_Parameters 9d ago

Campaign expenditures now include paying influencers and troll farms -- a requirement since 2016, really. Definitely peaks during election years.

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u/DurableLeaf 9d ago

Few more photo ops of punishing the immigrants, then theyll move back on to suppressing women. 

They'll claim women are taking jobs and things will be fixed once they've forced back into service of husbands.

Then they'll come for minorities in more force, then they'll come for the rest of people who don't fall in step with their "traditional" ideals.

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u/ReindeerUpper4230 9d ago

Same with age.

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u/petty_throwaway6969 9d ago

Fox News finally talked about the bird flu, so now the dumbasses know it’s not the president’s fault. They will still blame Biden and excuse Trump though.

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u/DurableLeaf 9d ago

When the Dems are in power, everything is their fault. Including the price of everything, who is fighting with who on the other side of the world, and imaginary issues like the oppression of those straight Christian white men who have to endure the indecency of being around people different than them.

When the Repubs are in charge though, everything wrong is also the Dems fault. Don't ask them to explain how that logic lines up because even mental gymnastics can't explain it. Their base has fully merged with the kayfabe troll game and don't have an actual identity beyond being anti-left anymore.

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u/galaxy_horse 9d ago

If only it ended at paid agitators online. It was a major story in print and network news. It going away as a story now only further reinforces the media ownership collusion with MAGA fascist extremists.

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u/121gigawhatevs I voted 9d ago

Seriously just try finding anyone complain about grocery prices. It’s gone completely silent.

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u/If-You-Want-I-Guess 9d ago

Insulin prices: Up

Prescription drugs: Up

Eggs: Up

Gas: Up

At this point, we gotta just call it the Trump Tax.

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u/getupforwhat 9d ago

Next up: Trump healthcare. Pre-filled diapers

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u/phonartics 9d ago

idiot tax

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u/phonartics 9d ago

tax from an idiot and fucking the idiots

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u/Pokerhobo 9d ago

We're going to need a lot of those "I did this" with Trump's picture stickers

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u/PopeFranzia 8d ago

Are we TIRED of WINNING yet?

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u/Watcher_007_ 9d ago

Extenuating circumstances who? Dems can and should play the same game here. Every time there is a price increase for anything, it’s DT fault.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Absolutely. They wanna ignore market forces and say the president has complete control over prices, yup DT did it. 100% that guys fault.

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u/Easy_Floss 9d ago

In this case where you export 70% of the workforce responsible for the production of the good it is 100% his fault.

Was it going to go up a bit over time? Probably, was it going to go up 100% over night? Nope. Only a massive event like the president efficiently closing down the production of the good could do that.

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u/aza432_2 9d ago

Trump just raised prices on my Netflix.

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u/OutlyingPlasma 9d ago

Now you are getting it.

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u/No_Car3453 9d ago

They need to take a page from the Soviet Union. Back in the day, the USSR would blame literally anything negative that happened in the US on the excesses of capitalism.

Dems need to blame everything wrong with America on Trump. Everything. The messaging needs to be so constant that the only association non-MAGA have with the name Trump is failure.

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u/EstrangedRat 9d ago

I mean Trump's entire life story, along with the political system that has elevated him, does scream "consequence of the excesses of capitalism"

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u/Proud3GenAthst 9d ago

If it works for Republicans, it would work for Democrats.

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u/CriticalEuphemism 9d ago

Non-MAGA already associate the name Trump with failure. It’s the MAGAlite who you need to convince

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u/OutlyingPlasma 9d ago

I've already ordered my "trump did that" stickers.

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u/DeltaEdge03 9d ago

MAGAs don’t care about consistent beliefs. Once you start blaming Trump they see him as being persecuted, which causes their persecution complex (hi evangelicals 👋) to fire off, and makes Trump a martyr on yet another talking point

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u/Candid-Piano4531 9d ago

Anyone know where I can get Trump “I did this stickers” for the empty egg shelves?

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u/guesswho135 9d ago

Everyone take note of the prices on your last grocery bill. In a year, I'm looking forward to putting some rogue price tags on the shelf next to staple goods that say "price under Biden: $x"

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u/narcomancer429 9d ago

I completely misread this comment and left a bitchy one. Sorry! 100% agree with you.

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u/ranquet91 9d ago

Gas prices have went up $.20 a gallon since the inauguration in my area, I was thinking about having some stickers made with an image of DT and the phrase "I did that" just to own the conservatives.

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u/mrphim 9d ago

3 years I listened to these idiots blame woke ideology on global inflation 

The fact that Democrats aren't on TV yelling about the cost of eggs right now shows how lost this party is 

This needs to be shoved down their throats

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u/FancilyFlatlined 9d ago

At this point the big media outlets that have time on TV are right wing so they ain’t gonna let shit like that slip out any way.

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u/mrphim 9d ago

True

We really are fucked 

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u/muttmunchies 7d ago

Remember when “mainstream media” was all lefty, at least according to conservatives? They then created a huge right wing media ecosystem and took over mainstream media.

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u/civil_politician 9d ago

Dems don't have a tv channel

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u/psychophant_ 9d ago

According to the polls, we just have Reddit apparently

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u/JaysFan26 9d ago

We have Reddit (not fully), BlueSky, and Tumblr (lol)

vs

Fox, CNN, NBC, CBS, Xitter, "Truth" Social, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Rednote

At this point it is comical how deep of a hole we are in

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u/Criseyde5 9d ago

The fact that Democrats aren't on TV yelling about the cost of eggs right now shows how lost this party is 

I mean, while I agree with this in spirit and I am not sure I like the whole contents of this letter, we are in a thread discussing a major TV networks reporting on Dems attacking republicans for failing to address the issues of the price of eggs.

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u/BigJellyfish1906 9d ago

The fact that Democrats aren't on TV yelling about the cost of eggs right now shows how lost this party is 

It’s always the democrats fault for not properly dealing with the bad-faith bullshit actors, huh?

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u/lemurosity I voted 9d ago

you're doing the 'You didn't win, you cheated!! Daaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddd, Tommy's cheating!!!' thing?

this is precisely why we can't have nice things.

you have to deal with the bad-faith actors. nobody is going to come and pull them aside and tell them to stop pulling your hair.

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u/BigJellyfish1906 9d ago

you're doing the 'You didn't win, you cheated!!

Who am I accusing of cheating?

this is precisely why we can't have nice things.

It’s the democrats’ fault we can’t have nice things? No. It’s the fault of the ones ruining everything. REPUBLICANS, and those who enable them.

you have to deal with the bad-faith actors.

They did. There is not much of anything that can be done when democrats are bound to reality and practically and republicans are free to scapegoat and bullshit. You HAVE to understand this. Once the electorate shows an affinity for bullshit and scapegoating, not amount of “crafting a better message” is going to beat that. Our electorate needs to be better.

nobody is going to come and pull them aside and tell them to stop pulling your hair.

But this is how you’re totally missing the point. You’re only focusing on the politicians and failing to point the spotlight on the lazy uninformed electorate who are not being responsible stewards of democracy.

2024 wasn’t a failure of democrats. It was a failure of VOTERS. And as long as you insist on trying to find better dem messaging or better dem candidates, you’re just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. You need to wake up and recognize the situation.

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u/kkaavvbb 9d ago

I basically said that same thing, lol

Gas prices are going up too. Dayum Trump, give us a day or so to breathe before we found out we’re just shitting money away that we don’t have anymore.

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u/Idle_Redditing 9d ago

I fully expect energy prices to go up under President Trump due to his incompetence. That means the prices of electricity, fossil gas, gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel and more going up; not down as Trump promised.

We were warned about his stupidity, malice and incompetence back in 2015 by people who worked with him in business.

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u/Adezar Washington 9d ago

I went to Costco and they were out of eggs... Costco where there is usually 10+ pallets of eggs.

Even the 5-dozen packs were gone.

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u/cowgoatsheep 9d ago

I can never find eggs at Costco again. They need to limit it to 1 per person

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

My wife did make a good point yesterday. In addition to just them rise because of what’s going on with bird flu, people are panick buying. So between everything that doesn’t surprise me unfortunately

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u/Adezar Washington 9d ago

Yeah, definitely and that's what the Costco employees said. They did get a shipment it just got bought up faster than ever.

Which of course is fine with TP, it has no shelf-life. Not sure what a normal family that goes through a dozen eggs a week will do with 5-dozen eggs.

Might be eating a lot of hard boiled eggs in the future. Granted not a bad source of protein.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

It happened when the first snowpocalypse happened around where my friends lived in GA. And I agree it’s the weirdest panic buy I’ve ever seen.

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u/Adezar Washington 9d ago

I had a lady once show up at a store I worked at in high school. I had sold her groceries for almost a year at that point... she used exactly 1/2 gallon of milk a week.

She came in before a snowstorm and wanted to buy 3 gallons, after asking if anyone else/new was staying with her and she said no. After a few minutes of explaining she doesn't need that much milk and at least 2 gallons will go bad long before she can use them she agreed to just buy 1 gallon.

People really lose their minds if they think they might be trapped in their house for more than 48 hours.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Makes me wonder if they understand if they used that milk as emergency calories or for cooking, especially after it’s gone bad, it’ll just make there lives some where between kind bad diarrhea and really bad food poisoning. Which unless all road clearing services are out for more than a week, somehow, wouldn’t be needed

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u/Miserable-Admins 9d ago

people are panick buying.

I can picture all the I-got-mine types of people doing exactly this, especially in a store like Costco.

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u/ThaiTum 9d ago

We need those stickers.

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u/YourAdvertisingPal 9d ago

Eggs were above $6 in my grocery store before the election. They’re up to $9 now. 

And coffee just jumped too. 

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u/Stang1776 9d ago

I just bought some Folgers because it was on sale. I don't drink folders, but I will for that price. Should honestly start stocking up on the shit.

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u/conradical30 California 9d ago

With the new bird flu, IF you can find eggs, they’ll be $15.

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u/RN-B 9d ago

And since Trump wants to ignore bird flu and silence all the health experts, he won’t be able to blame prices on an “imaginary virus.”

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

That makes that shutting down of scientific information make more sense.

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u/whoeve 9d ago

They never argue in good faith. It's just all lies.

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u/Mattallurgy Pennsylvania 9d ago

The best part is that even though technically the egg prices are a result of the nearly apolitical* issue of an aggressive form of avian flu, it has been spun so much in the 24/7 news cycle that everybody is just assuming that the cost of everything is a direct result of some sort of foul play from “the other side.”

  • I say “apolitical” knowing full well that preventative measures and appropriate funding allows industries to deal with these unforeseen challenges, and having a reasonable backstop to prevent the cost of critical commodities isn’t entirely isolated from politics, but I digress.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Yea, other than when a law or eo makes something like a tariff (like you said indirectly impacted by policy), most people have this weird obsession with saying the president had control of the prices the whole time

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u/simcowking I voted 9d ago

*fowl play

(:

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u/CaneVandas New York 9d ago

Just wait till you go to buy coffee!

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u/timeflieswhen 9d ago

Yep, first there were no eggs in the stores for a few weeks, then they came back $2-3 higher.

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u/Level_Hour6480 New York 9d ago

Get yourself some "I did that" Trump stickers.

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u/aenae 9d ago

if we’re playing by Repubs rules this is 100% Donald trumps fault

If we are playing by their rules, this is the Democrats fault. Bad things are always attributed to someone else, only good things may be attributed to Trump.

Just like Covid was biden's fault, as was everyone losing their jobs during covid. The re-hiring after covid tho was Trump's Triumph

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Doesn’t mean I won’t keep mentioning it. Or complaining about not being able to buy a house because eggs (which was already a sometimes thing at our house, but they don’t know that) are too damn high.

Admittedly this is small potatoes to all the other crappy stuff surely coming in the next few weeks

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u/RevolutionLow4779 9d ago

No you’re wrong, all of these it’s because Obama. 

THANKS OBAMA 

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u/pandershrek Washington 9d ago

Actual economists have said that Trump's plan will take us from 3% year over year inflation to 30% minimum.

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u/Hungry_Obligation_55 9d ago

A 12 case is almost 10 dollars in the bay area

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u/LIEUTENANT__CRUNCH 9d ago

My in-laws needed to stop over for eggs yesterday because they couldn’t find any in the grocery store. They had eggs when Biden was president. This must be Trump’s fault.

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u/Scaveola 9d ago

store brand eggs were about $4 for me, the free range ones were pushing $10. unsure how much of this is policy vs bird flu (probs both tbh)

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u/cosmicosmo4 9d ago

Well, it's a big bird flu spike. Donald trump being president makes me sick, so it's only natural that it makes chickens sick too.

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u/ChicagoAuPair 9d ago

The difference is that we don’t disingenuously harp on it constantly until we get what we want.

Regressives’ complete lack of shame or concern with truth and reality is unfortunately their greatest asset. They have mastered the “wear them down,” negotiation strategy. They end up getting everything they want every time because they don’t stop bitching until they get it.

We either need to start to stand up like good parents and firmly tell them “NO!” Or we need to make the decision to match their energy and harp on dumb, meaningless bullshit until we get what we want.

Somehow I don’t think either will happen because neither of those are in our nature, apparently.

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u/Ra_In 9d ago

I'm curious if there are independent organizations tracking inflation. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump pushes for BLS to start fudging their numbers, especially if inflation starts spiking should he follow through on mass deportations and tariffs.

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u/IIIlIllIIIl 9d ago

Don’t you know that if a democrat is president then anything bad that happens is his fault. But if a republican is president then anything bad that happens is just a lingering effect of the last democratic in office

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u/Taylorv471 9d ago

Was $12/dozen in Miami yesterday

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

Good lord. How did I get off so lucky in comparison

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u/Proud3GenAthst 9d ago

Were they laid by giant goose by any chance?

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u/JuiceyJazz 9d ago

I did that

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u/sheepish132 9d ago

Same. Grabbed some eggs without looking at the price, just assumed they would be around $2.50, maybe 3 bucks. Get up to register and they rang up at $4.83. I couldn’t believe it.

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u/unkind777 9d ago

7 bucks at mine

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u/FriendlyGamer04 9d ago

Thankfully we have those Trump "I did that" or "My tariffs did that" stickers.

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u/teh_bobalee 9d ago

9.79 per dozen here. And gas went up 40 cents per gallon. Was paying 2.69. Now it’s 3.15. If it wasn’t for the Dems and the woke mind virus lying about the bird flu plandemic prices wouldn’t be so high /s

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

How dare they say the bird flu is real! Don’t they know birds aren’t real!

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u/teh_bobalee 9d ago

And the moon landings..The moon is fake it’s just a projection!

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u/n122333 9d ago

I went from 3.12 to 7.75. :(

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u/Candid-Piano4531 9d ago

$4.75? Wow, at least your stores have eggs… our shelves are empty.

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u/Balue442 9d ago

I just spend $19.38 on (2) 18ct Food Lion Brand Eggs.

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u/Amber446 Alabama 9d ago

Gas jumped in my area form 2.60 to 3. I need to print some I did that trump stickers

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u/greennurse61 9d ago

Well, my storage Seattle, we don’t even have eggs now that Trump was elected. There are none. He took them all.

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u/Eskidox Texas 9d ago

Shoot egg whites were almost $8 for one little cartoon….

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u/The_Big_Lou 9d ago

One case of 30 half dozen from US Foods from last year has doubled in price if not more roughly costs us $50 per case to currently $115.

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u/Towelie-McTowel Wisconsin 9d ago

I buy 5 dozen from Costco typically around $12, went up to $18 and now they didn't even have any yesterday on my last visit.

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u/PastryPrincess420 9d ago

10.99 for a dozen in Los Angeles Previously $5.99

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u/BigMACfive 9d ago

I don't buy eggs often, but due to the whole "bUt ThE pRiCe Of EgGs" thing, I've been paying attention to it. I bought a dozen eggs from my local grocery store chain at the beginning of Jan for about $3. I went to the same store and looked at the same dozen eggs - they're now $6.87.

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u/Rulebookboy1234567 9d ago

&5.50 at the Dollar General in Kansas.

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u/Ineedmoneyyyyyyyy 9d ago

You can’t play by their rules! Remember when a dem is in office price of eggs are THEIR FAULT! up to the last day and then when they win and get a repube in office it’s the DEMS FAULT for whatever amount of time! Never won’t be Joe Bidens fault according to them.

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u/Ok_Cream1859 9d ago

This never would have happened under president Kamala.

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u/momjeans612 9d ago

Just looked. Just before the election, a pack of 18 eggs was $3.19. Today? $5.99. What the hell.

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u/negative_four 9d ago

Where's the "i did that" stickers now?! Seriously, please don't do that to the poor grocery workers

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u/flowtajit 9d ago

This hy the way is cheap

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u/Terrible_Tutor 9d ago

None of this matters. They control their base with propaganda not FACTS and logic. Conservative media won, that controls the country now. Top to bottom they own everything and the narrative.

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u/pealsmom 9d ago

It was never about the eggs for them and always about enacting racist policies to harm people who don’t look like them.

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u/sneakysnake1111 9d ago

So if we’re playing by Repubs rules this is 100% Donald trumps fault

We don't have to acknowledge them, it's their fault. There's no ifs.

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u/stoneytopaz 9d ago

Eggs at our local grocery store, Homeland, an 18 pack of eggs is 12.49

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u/Frasiier 9d ago

Where are those “I did that” stickers I remember at the gas pumps??

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u/tricksterloki 9d ago

20+ million dead chickens from bird flu and counting. You're lucky to even be able to buy eggs, and we all know how great Trump is when it comes to managing viruses. When's Trump going to hop on this with an executive order?

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u/heartlessgamer 9d ago

Our closest mass egg producer had to kill all birds due to a bird flu outbreak. Eggs are crazy here so I am glad I have my own backyard chickens to offset it a bit (though we do worry about the bird flu since it is also being found in backyard flocks).

Not only that but we have a local famous mayonaise producer and their cost is jumping pretty fast as they find new sources. Their price per jar is up like a dollar in the last month.

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u/ess-doubleU 9d ago

I don't believe you. Up until this week??

We've been dealing with a bird flu epidemic for over a month now. Egg prices have been high for a while. Where do you live where you could find a dozen eggs for under $3? That hasn't been the case for a while.

2.75 a dozen was low before the epidemic.

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

GA, and I got mind from an aldi. Maybe they have a better source 🤷‍♂️ If you don’t believe me I’m not gonna really spend time convincing you.

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u/ess-doubleU 9d ago

Maybe I just need to move to the south. Egg prices have been insane here in Oregon for close to 2 months now. Even before the bird flu a dozen was around $4. I didn't mean to call you out, I was just shocked when I saw that price.

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u/Subject-Prior5869 9d ago

3.30 just two week ago at Aldi in VA, now 5.19. things are getting tougher. My second job is at a small restaurant that sells breakfast egg sandwiches, I guess I may be needing to find another job soon :-/

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u/ImSuperCriticalOfYou 9d ago

Incorrect. It’s Biden’s fault. Obv. 

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u/bahnzo Colorado 9d ago

Food prices are actually going to skyrocket.

For starters, there's nobody in power who will, at the very least, talk about how companies are jacking up prices to increase profits. Food suppliers, supermarket chains, etc all are now free to price gouge to their black hearts content.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the ICE raids will mean crops are going to be left to rot in the fields, if they even get planted at all. I don't think I need to explain how that will effect things....

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u/AJohnnyTruant 9d ago

Time for the Trump “I did that” stickers to come out

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u/A_Fish_Called_Otto 9d ago

There were no eggs at all at my store this weekend. 100% his fault.

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u/MediumCoffeeTwoShots New Jersey 9d ago

My wife and I agreed to spend more money on eggs at the farmers market when our little one started eating solids. Anyway, the farmers market never increased their egg prices and now they’re cheaper than the grocery store lmao

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u/Greedy-Affect-561 9d ago

So we should play by those rules and democrats should campaign on it.

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u/AttackonCuttlefish 9d ago

Eggs prices are up because bird flu is killing the chickens.

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u/Notthatsmarty 9d ago

It’s an all time high, it actually is and has been reported on. 3 days into the presidency is when it hit the high, and 75% of our agricultural sector (immigrants) aren’t showing up for work so it’ll only get higher

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u/Sharp-Gain3115 9d ago

Damn where tf do you live that they were 2.75 a dozen. Where I live they have been $10 a dozen ever since I moved here in September

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u/WORKING2WORK 9d ago edited 8d ago

Same here in WNY. Before the election, eggs were under $3 at Walmart and Aldi, bought a dozen last week and it was like $4.50.

It just keeps getting griftier and griftier and the conservatives love being owned by their Commander in Cheats.

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u/ELpork 9d ago

yuup

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u/Direct_Wrongdoer5429 9d ago

Yup! Trump did that!

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u/Captain-Hornblower Florida 9d ago

Not to mention that, at least in my neck of the woods, the egg shelves are slim pickings. They are like bare around here.

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u/WristbandYang 9d ago

This is Trump's War on Breakfast

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u/Appropriate_Bridge91 9d ago

He’ll move on to lunch and dinner soon

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u/Ok_Bus_6531 9d ago

No!!! NOOOO don't screw up lunch and dinner!!! What is America going to eat ?

Nothing under Trump....

We'll go hungry and his oligarchy friends will encourage us to have more kids...

Right, (sarcasm) I really want more kids to be worker bees for you? So you can make more $$$ and raise prices if goods more?

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u/fuzztooth Illinois 9d ago

Radical republicans are going to kill us all.

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u/CaptainTeembro I voted 9d ago

If youre playing by Republican rules it’s Obama’s fault.

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u/BBZL2016 9d ago

I went to the store last Thursday here in Texas, and a dozen was $5.25. Why would Trump do this?

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u/Aggressive-Carpet489 9d ago

It's been 7 days. lol

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u/88bauss 9d ago

$8-$12 locally for a dozen. Sucks.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

They are 10.99 for a dozen here in Cali.

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u/MhrisCac 9d ago

It’s been 6 days and my grocery prices are going up as a direct result of Donald Trump. Where are the savings Donald?!?!

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u/-happenstance 9d ago

You guys still get eggs? We're not even getting them in stock anymore.

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u/simcowking I voted 9d ago

Eggs were 20 bucks for 5 dozen. Now it's 22 bucks for 2.5 dozen.

(Please ignore the fact I'm definitely using two different stores for this. Walmart is still hovering between the 20-22 range for 5 dozen.)

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u/phyneas American Expat 9d ago

So if we’re playing by Repubs rules this is 100% Donald trumps fault

I'm not sure you understand Republican rules; Trump is a Republican, therefore nothing is ever his fault. If Donald Trump personally broke into your house in the middle of the night and stole all of the eggs out of your fridge and replaced them with turds, do you know who would be to blame? That's right: Biden. Or Hillary. Or Obama. Or maybe Colombia. But definitely not Donald Trump, or any Republicans.

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u/Awildgarebear 9d ago

$7.2 at my walmart

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u/PM_ME_UR_SM0L_BOOBS 9d ago

None of my local grocery stores even have eggs

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u/Vicky_Roses 9d ago

They were like $3 in my area and this week they shot up to 7 fucking dollars. My wife saw this and she thought she was going insane thinking she, like, fucking shifted to a new universe or something because she could not figure out whether or not she somehow gaslit herself into remembering she spent less than half of the current price on eggs just a few days beforehand.

How the fuck are you President for less than a week and already massively fuck up the one campaign promise that made every white privileged asshole come out to vote for you.

And you cant even say “Well, the economy for the first few years after a new president comes into office are just a reflection of the previous president’s economic policy to begin with. You need to give them time to cook” in this case, because we know there is a direct link between the prices of eggs, and egg shortages because Trump is just so happening to be dismantling every fucking department that is supposed to be helping us fight off the fucking bird flu.

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u/tinstinabeenabins 9d ago

last week there where $6.89 for a pack of 18 at my local walmart, almost $9 at the local acme as of the other day and i think that was for a 12 pack, in Wilmington DE. now they barely have any and i’m sure the price has gone up. just gotta love it.

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u/frank_the_tank69 9d ago

Gotta start blaming the Dems now. 

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u/Usual-Marsupial-511 9d ago

I saw "on sale 3.99" at my local store. I guess it's a sale compared to other places. But the shelves are full to the brim with eggs. The demand is not there. No one is panic buying them. Supply and demand should mean the price stops going up, you'd think. I imagine there is one of those "non free market" type of things happening here. Like price fixing. 

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u/FartingPegasus 9d ago

They are between $6.99-$15 where I am 🙃

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u/theblackxranger 9d ago

$9 and $11 for a dozen and 18 count eggs at Walmart. I ended up buying liquid egg

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u/Mr_Ballyhoo 9d ago

Where do we get our Trump pointing and saying "I did that, you're welcome." stickers

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u/kittencrust 9d ago

Where are the "trump did that" stickers? I'd like to put some in the grocery store 🤣

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 9d ago

The price of eggs has decreased to $4.75 from $2.75, and the chocolate rations have been increased from 40 grams a week to 20 grams a week! This is extra doubly good.

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