Egg prices have plummeted more than 60% since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, contradicting months of alarmist media coverage that forecasted a grocery-price crisis under his watch. The swift decline has upended a favored narrative among Trump’s critics—that rising food costs would kneecap his presidency before it began.
According to federal data, the average cost of a dozen eggs dropped from $6.41 on Trump’s first full day in office to just $2.57 by early June. This comes after a brief spike to $8 per dozen in March, which several outlets seized upon as evidence that Trump’s economic agenda was failing. But the market has since corrected sharply, driven in part by strategic intervention from the administration.
Legacy media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, and PBS News, repeatedly warned that Trump’s proposals—particularly new tariffs and regulatory changes—would worsen inflation and prolong high egg prices, noted The Daily Caller. In February, The Times suggested Trump “inherited a healthy economy” but would soon face blowback over climbing food costs. PBS doubled down in April, asserting that “record egg prices” cast doubt on Trump’s grocery promises. But the data now tells a different story.
Even as prices began to tumble, media outlets clung to talking points. CNN and CBS News attempted to downplay the president’s claims about falling costs, accusing him of overstating the drop. MSNBC’s Morning Joe and ABC’s The View both misled viewers, with hosts falsely claiming that egg prices were continuing to rise or had not dropped at all—even as prices had already fallen nearly 50%.
Behind the scenes, Trump’s Department of Agriculture quietly implemented a targeted response. In February, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins rolled out a five-part plan that included $500 million in poultry-sector relief, funding for avian flu containment, and regulatory rollbacks to boost domestic egg production. The administration also greenlit temporary egg imports to stabilize supply.
Despite repeated warnings that Trump’s tariff policies would fuel price hikes, the opposite has occurred, and now its the legacy media that has egg on its face.
