The reason Trump said that there wasn't much he could do about inflation and he wanted people to shut up about the price of eggs is because he is more responsible than inflation for the rising cost of food. I've been on about this for the last four years that Trump's trade agreements he signed within days of leaving office back in 2020 was contributing to the high cost of food. When you increase demand, price pressures on those items increase. Unless demand goes down, those price pressures don't go away. That's why Trump can't do anything about it, he never intends for increased demand to stop, instead he's on about signing more trade agreements to even further increase the price pressures. In other words, Trump's using the American Bread Basket as the governments own personal retail store.
Trump, much like everything else he has done, the blame always reflects back onto someone else. In the end, when it no longer matters, he admits his share of the blame. Like his recent admission that he gave Ukraine Javelins while Obama gave them blankets, or finally being forced to admit he'll have to go clean up after his own peace accord process mess in Gaza. I was always convinced that when it came time for the finale, Israel nor Saudi Arabia was going to go clean up that hornets nest. I knew because the whole of the US intelligence community told them, this is going to be a disaster, we don't want anything to do with it, and the blame is going to land upon your shoulders. There was a lot of satisfaction having to watch Trump with egg all over his face on that one finally. Right now, with everyone's focus on what jobs are being axed, there is an entire ethic cleansing campaign going on in Syria, bodies piled up in the streets, of which the response from the new US back government responds that they are "looking into it". In the sheer depth of the cost of human lives in this new global paradigm alignment, do you really think he cares what people are paying for eggs.
Trump does these perfect cliché's that get trapped in peoples minds. In our current food dilemma it was all on about that poor soybean farmer. It wasn't like Trump was going to stand up there and tell you if we'd only make the US a supermarket to the entire world, the government could cut subsidizing farmers. Trump used soybeans, because, well, it'd been quite a different response from the American people if he had said, steak, eggs and potatoes. Though soybean exports went up, so did your beef, egg and potatoes. I know I've told people this one before, and I'll get to the shocking number of egg exports in a minute, but China increased beef imports from the US by 386%, Japan, our potatoes by 79%, Saudi Arabia couldn't get enough of our eggs, and chicken paws?, well, the Chinese love them so much so exports of chicken paws, that once got ground up for pet food here, were sold to China for over four hundred million dollars, that's a far cry from the twenty two million they were getting here from pet manufacturers. Now you understand the price increases on pet food, combine that with increase pricing on corn, and if you feed your pet wet food, the increase price on aluminum, it all adds up to hefty prices feeding your pets. Except if you owned an aquarium, I found it rather odd that two years into this inflationary rise, I could still buy fish food and supplies for relatively the same price. Same with fishing gear like hooks, sinkers, worms, etc., so I started really paying attention and kept asking anyone if they noticed when shopping why some things, including some food products, weren't skyrocketing. The only logical answer was there wasn't an increase in demand.
It's really not hard to see where all the problem started just looking at the graphs. Trump signs the agreements on his way out the door in 2020 and prices start to take an upward swing. Back in 2017 they reconfigured the USDA trade focus, combining departments, increased funding, increased hiring and incentives to push forward more exports of American agricultural products.
Since USDA first established a stand-alone mission area focusing on trade and international affairs in 2017, USDA’s Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs and the Foreign Agricultural Service, have made significant trade policy advances to support U.S. agriculture. This series of commodity fact sheets highlights the many recent trade policy advances achieved by USDA.
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/commodity-fact-sheets-us-ag-trade-policy-advances
It has paid off tremendously to the tune of 6.3 billion dollars worth of egg and poultry exports by 2024.
If you click on the link and follow from 2020 to 2024, there are increases in the millions of dollars that eventually add to the astounding 6.3 billion value of egg and poultry products leaving this country while Americans pay seven bucks for a carton of eggs. It's not just eggs, in 2023 the US exported 10.1 billion dollars in beef, 8.1 billion dollars in pork, 14.1 billion dollars in corn, 6.5 billion dollars in wheat, 5.9 billion in vegetables, 50.8 billion in processed products, you name it, alcohol, distilled spirits, seed oils, hemp, just about anything you can imagine, click the link below, view the list of categories, pick an item and it'll take you to the amount exported.
From the descriptions within the site it is described as the products are sold through free trade agreements with other countries, but it really isn't free to Americans when their food prices escalate due to global market demands on their food. This is where Trump is planning on going with all this, the government takes in all the benefits of increased corporate tax profits while alleviating itself from subsidies leaving Americans struggling to put food on the table. The same thing will be akin to his tariff war, few Americans will benefit off the Trump agenda. First it was your jobs, now your food, and next up will be your energy.