POLITICSJUST IN: Eggs Drop To Pre-Trump Prices, Dismantling Media’s Favorite Talking PointPublished 12 hours ago on March 11, 2025By Mark Steffen
Most mainstream media narratives say the health of the U.S. economy rides on the day-to-day cost of eggs, and persistently high prices prove that President Donald Trump is failing at his job. But that talking point fell flat on Tuesday after officials announced that the price of a dozen eggs is now lower than when the Republican took office.
The news was broken by Brooke Rollins, the president’s secretary of agriculture, during an interaction with the media.
“We’re more focused on how we bring the price of eggs down and the avian bird flu for everyone,” Rollins said about the virus that’s killed hundreds of millions of chickens in the past year. “A good piece of news we’ve gotten in the last day or two is the price of a dozen eggs has now gone down a dollar and eighty-five cents since we announced our plan about a week and a half ago.”
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On X, Republican Congressman Mike Collins (R-GA) credited the Trump administration with managing to steer the turnaround despite the Biden-Harris administration ordering the killing of approximately 166 million birds before President Trump took office.
Former President Joe Biden left behind a contracting economy that saw the price of a dozen eggs reach an average of $6.57, an all-time high. Shortly before Tuesday’s announcement, commodity watchers cited by Rep. Collins pegged the national average price at $6.08.
Despite the discrepancy between Collins’ and Rollins’ figures, both pronouncements underscore the fact that one of the main anti-Trump talking points in the media is starting to lose steam.
Democrats have been banking on egg prices to cut into Trump’s popularity, especially at a time when a declining stock market is weighing on investor sentiment in the wake of tariff disruptions. Some restaurants, such as Waffle House, are beginning to implement surcharges on meal purchases containing eggs, a constant reminder to voters that the price of eggs was previously expected to rise 41% this year, according to Time.
“When that is your day-to-day worry, the philosophical conversations about a constitutional crisis or the democracy is simply not a luxury you can afford,” Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI). “I’m not saying we shouldn’t worry about those things, because we should and they are important, but they are not primary in the minds of the people in Saginaw, Michigan.”
To be sure, not all on the left are on board with targeting Trump for egg prices. Ezra Levin, co-founder of the far-left Individual group, laid into establishment Democrats for goading for a “1990s policy fight” rather than training their fire on billionaires like Trump advisor Elon Musk.
“They’re looking at polls that say inflation is unpopular, and they think Dems can win people with boring, tired talking points,” Levin told the outlet. “But it’s 2025 — this isn’t how politics works anymore. And their failure to update their approach to creeping authoritarianism is a simple failure of leadership.
