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.

  • Lemmist@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Can’t Trump just declare the bird flu as nonsense like COVID? That’ll surely fix the prices.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      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.

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        10 hours ago

        I’m not happy about it or anything, but at least in this scenario it becomes entirely feasible for all of these fascist clowns to (technically anyway) choke to death on cock, so I’m understandably conflicted

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          7 hours ago

          Nah they’ll just blame the “deep state” government for not stopping it while still defending Trump just like they did during COVID.

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      10 hours ago

      The ostrich method appears to be popular lately. We’ve banned all discussion of climate change for example in at least one state. We’ve even passed the law saying it isn’t real.

      I don’t get it. If the method is so effective, just say it’s gone.