'Shut Up About Egg Prices': Trump Shares Brazen Message About High Costs
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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.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    71·
    21 hours ago

    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.”

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      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.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      23·
      18 hours ago

      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

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
        31·
        17 hours ago

        eg1: https://lemmy.today/comment/14715103

        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.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      71·
      18 hours ago

      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.