CNN Tries to Portray Falling Egg Prices as Bad News
These people have no shame.
Oh. My. Goodness. This is a real article.
This is UNBELIEVABLE.
The whole story is that @POTUS is lying about egg prices going down, but egg prices are going down….
Give me a break @cnn. You just can’t make this up. 🤦🏻♀️🤨 pic.twitter.com/QM4Zhexrku
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) May 14, 2025
Unbelievable headline pic.twitter.com/6TRHYnpJ84
— Josh Hawley Stan ✝️🇺🇸🎬 (@JHawleyStan) May 13, 2025
David Goldman’s article admitted egg prices fell by 12.7% since March 2025.
Then Goldman pointed out that eggs are 49.3% higher since April 2024…while leaving out a key point: Eggs were 60.4% higher in March 2025 from March 2024.
So, um, that’s still good news.
But why is this bad news? I read the article over and over and I just don’t get it.
Goldman ended the article with this sentence, “So Trump’s claim that consumer egg prices are down is finally true – even if the timing of his claim and the wild percentages he threw around were grossly inaccurate.”
One of my problems with President Donald Trump is him promising to do this or that right away and throwing out exaggerated numbers.
I hate hyperbole, but I also know the media will just be relentless in their attacks against him over it and it gives me a headache.
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If a tree falls in a forest devoid of ears, will it still make a sound?
It’s not an idle question. It makes air pressure waves but does “sound” require the familiar experience to be the correct term or not.
So…. you’re saying that idea is unsound?
If a tree falls in a forest devoid of ears, will it still make a sound?
No.
In order for it to be a ‘sound’ it has to be heard.
Over 166 million chickens (166,000,000) were killed because of Avian flu. The price of eggs has nothing whatsoever to due with Trump, pro or con.
The (vast majority of the) chickens were not killed by the flu. They were killed by the regulatory response to the flu. Know any chicken farmers? I do. Ask them what the proper response should have been. Hint, it has to do with the chicken’s immune system, not ‘vaccines.’
He did say they were killed because of the flu, not by it.
But it means Trump did (possibly) have something to do with it – if he changed policies.
Beat me to it. I generally find JR’s comments to be off, but in this case he is not wrong. I see you got downticks for your trouble…
Not technically wrong, but with enough spin to be somewhat dishonest, or at least less than truthful (if those are not actually the same things).
But he’s parroting the media as it reported on this during the Biden administration. Once again, a virus is being blamed for damage actually done by the government. I’m beginning to see a pattern here.
This post is totally out of character for JR, must be back on meds.
The price of eggs may have nothing whatsoever to “due” with Trump, pro or con, but it may have something to do with Trump. But nothing to “do” with you.
Actually that’s not quite true. The Biden administration’s approach was to kill flocks of chickens that -might- catch the flu. The Trump administration approach is very different. Since the flu causes no danger to humans, the approach has been to let chickens susceptible to the flu catch it. Not every chicken will die. Those who survive are immune and the flock is strengthened as a whole.
So arguably …
“Over 166 million chickens (166,000,000) were killed by the Biden Administration because of Avian flu.”
Fixed it for ya.
Those chickens were slaughtered because of “positive” PCR tests. The farmers were told they’d be fully compensated if they slaughtered all their birds, but would get nothing if they let the disease and natural immunity take its course.
My personal experience and belief is that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has a 20% or less mortality rate, with the remainder of the infected flock being naturally immune.
With government “help” it has a 100% mortality rate and is NOT prevented from spreading to other flocks, due to the primary vector being immune waterfowl and their feces.
No exactly. Due to unwise decisions on the part of the Biden administration, the supply of eggs shrunk relative to demand, so the price of course went up. Unlike Biden and his minions Trump does understand the market, and his Ag Secretary (who also understands the market) worked on importing more eggs from overseas suppliers. More eggs on the market will bring lower cost.
CNN. Is that still a thing?
Barely.
One of the reasons I hate airports. That is the only place CNN is broadcast.
My father was a school teacher without income during the summer. He taught me a form of prepping based on sales and gardening. We made pickles, wine and beer. And we canned excess produce.
I have done the same my whole life, including eggs. I buy eggs 6-9 months at a time. They last at leas 6-9 months worth at a time.
Right now I have 2 months worth on hand. When I see inventory with bad eggs, i crack them one at a
Do you store them in lime water? When the pullets begin to lay, I put their small eggs in storage rather than try to sell them. They’re good for a year or so; I haven’t kept them longer so I don’t know what the ultimate time frame is.
time, scramble the good eggs, dehydrate and can them. Loss is under 10%.
“One of my problems with President Donald Trump is him promising to do this or that right away and throwing out exaggerated numbers.”
That’s Trump, it’s how he shines a light on something the news refuses to give him and his administration credit for
Or it publicly lets whomever know he’s got his eye on you
It’s who Trump is and I love it
Even “conservatives” have problems with Trump’s exaggerations, but never seem to have problems with outright liberal lies. At least to the point of not falling apart when he bloviates.
Do you imagine that if Trump didn’t exaggerate and gave accurate figures that the MSM wouldn’t try to tell us why the figures were wrong?
“But why is this bad news? I read the article over and over and I just don’t get it.”
I’ll explain it to you mathematically:
(Good news + Trump) x MSM = Orange Man Bad News
Who do we hate = CNN
How much do we hate them = A Lot!!!
“CNN Tries to Portray Falling Egg Prices as Bad News”
Falling ratings, though — those are Good News!
I have always hated Trump’s exaggerations and misstatements, but I have gotten used to them. I also know they are harmless because whatever he is talking about when he throws incorrect numbers out, the people who are required to fix it use real numbers. It’s his personality, and it comes with some outstanding qualities that no other pols have. If you look at what he has and is accomplishing in three months, it is unbelievable. I can live with a few minor flaws since I have a couple myself.
I believe the only thing he will not exaggerate will be the level of increase in the national debt when he leaves in 2028. He also won’t exaggerate the number of EOs of his that will be reversed the first day a Democrat or RINO takes the reins.
It’s same same with how he refers to people, he always describes them either positively or negatively. He sometimes uses both descriptions for the same person, as the descriptions can change over time. He doesn’t really mean what he says, he’s just indicating who is on his good side and who is on his bad side.
“Trump’s egg price fiction has suddenly become reality”
Just like Trump’s “Hunter’s laptop fiction,” Trump’s “Democrat slush funds fiction,” Trump’s “Biden is senile fiction,” Trump’s “Democrats rig elections fiction,” and Trump’s “Big Tech censors conservatives fiction.”
The guy has amassed a damn good record.
Of course, all these things were still true, with or without Trump even being there.
“America’s poultry farmers have put in the work to tighten biosecurity and they’ll continue to strive to protect their flocks,”
Basically lest outbreaks because of biosecurity. Biden anmin started having USDA inspections to audit biosecurity and Trump admin invested $500M in biosecurity.
This is such crap. The most basic, cheap, easy biosecurity will work in a totally enclosed flock like with modern egg producing farms.
The infection comes in via the feces of infected water fowl. The feces are tracked indoors on workers shoes.
You need only require that workers and visitors change clothes into clean uniforms and wear dedicated indoor footwear (usually rubber boots). You then have walk-through footbaths at each door into the facility.
Of course, there is great difficulty in getting poorly-paid non-English speaking illegals to adhere to these basic policies which are common throughout the food manufacturing industry, but there you go.
No need for big expenditures or involved procedures. Just discipline and common sense.
One of my sons raises chickens for both eating and eggs. Doesn’t need to for economic reasons, but because organic free range chickens and their eggs taste better. His hens are prolific egg layers. Each week at church he sells 2 or 3 dozen at $5. a dozen to fellow churchgoers who want free range organic eggs.
He and his wife also homeschool. Raising the chickens, taking care of the worm farm so they can feed them without buying commercial feed. and selling the eggs (and other things being produced) all impart valuable life lessons to them.
Not doing it on a commercial basis, doing enough to be as self sufficient as possible. Next project- they’re thing of one or two head or cattle.
So there’s a demand for $5 a dozen eggs- if they’re free range organic.
I agree biosecurity is faily simple on a small farm but not really as simple on some of the mega farms where you have constant going and coming of employees, service techs, service vehicles and supply deliveries. There has to be a very robust plan not only for the things you mention but you have to have a plan for your supplies such as egg crates, a plan for service trucks and equipment even tools used by repair techs. There are some farms with as many as 15m birds. That is a very large and complicated operation and you would basically have to have someone dedicated to biosecurity.