‘We have too many eggs’: Billionaire Trump calls eggs ‘too cheap’ because he doesn’t know what anything costs

It’s no surprise that Donald Trump, a billionaire who probably hasn’t had to buy his own groceries since the Reagan administration, doesn’t know what a carton of eggs costs—or, clearly, why Americans are so ticked off about it.

What is surprising is how confidently he managed to make a complete fool of himself about the issue. In one of his trademark rambling tirades, Trump declared, with zero irony, that egg prices are “too low,” despite the fact that they’re currently breaking records at over $6 per dozen. Yes, you read that right: According to Trump, prices so high they’ve forced many Americans to skip Easter traditions are somehow too cheap.

Trump: We have too many eggs. if anything, the prices are getting too low pic.twitter.com/SIKjGJzaD1

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During Friday’s press conference, when a reporter dared to bring up the fact that nearly half of American families are altering their Easter plans due to egg costs, Trump visibly bristled before launching into what can only be described as an egg-centric meltdown. “You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs,” Trump declared with his characteristic hand-waving. “In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low. So, I just want to let you know, prices are down.”

This bewildering assertion flies directly in the face of actual data from the Consumer Price Index, which shows egg prices have reached an unprecedented $6.23 per dozen—a shocking 84% increase since January 2024. The current prices have absolutely shattered the previous record set in January 2023. But apparently, in Trump’s golden-spoon universe, this is somehow “too low.” This isn’t even the first time eggs have scrambled the president’s brain this week. Just a day earlier, Trump went on another egg-focused tirade in the Oval Office, complaining about being held accountable for rising prices mere days after taking office.

“The price of eggs, you know, when I came in, they hit me with eggs. I just got there,” Trump rambled to reporters. “I was here for one week and they started screaming eggs have gone through the roof. I said, I just got here. I was there for seven days and I hear that eggs have gone through the roof before I got there. And they were screaming at me, the press, the fake news like you, you’re fake, and the fake news is screaming at me about eggs.” Let’s not forget that Trump practically built his campaign around promises to immediately fix soaring grocery prices. At an August 2024 rally—where he bizarrely surrounded himself with groceries like some kind of millionaire’s idea of a supermarket diorama—he boldly proclaimed, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.”

Meanwhile, as Trump complains about eggs being “too cheap,” regular Americans are making difficult choices about which traditions they can afford to maintain. The disconnect couldn’t be more glaring if it were wearing neon and doing jumping jacks. Perhaps someone should take the president on a field trip to an actual grocery store—though I suspect he’d need a tutorial on how to use a shopping cart. Maybe then he’d realize that for most Americans, $6.23 for a dozen eggs isn’t “too low”—it’s the difference between having Easter breakfast or skipping it altogether.