In August 2024, then-candidate Donald Trump held a press conference surrounded by packaged foods, milk and eggs, proclaiming: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” Now, as President, Trump faces a surge in egg prices, which jumped more than 15% last month due to the ongoing avian flu — the largest increase in the consumer price index (CPI) since June 2015.

Scientists say that Trump’s early actions in his first weeks helped the flu spread and caused egg prices to climb higher, yet Trump continues to blames his predecessor, Joe Biden, for the rising cost.

Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman cuts through the noise in the debate over who is responsible for the high cost of eggs. Pakman argues that if Trump hadn’t made it a key issue, promising to bring prices down, it wouldn’t be dominating the conversation.

The following is an excerpt from the above video:

Then you might say, “Well, David, you can’t possibly blame Trump for higher egg prices right now, because bird flu is pushing them up.” And I would say you know, you know what, that’s absolutely the case, but it’s Trump who refuses to acknowledge that bird flu is a thing. It’s Trump who has consistently failed to simply say when there is a pandemic or epidemic. Remember COVID — hey, this is a real thing, and we need to do something about this. No, Trump is just going forward and saying the prices are going to come down.

Now, how do we know that deep down Trump realizes his inflation promises are not likely to come to fruition? It’s that between November’s election and his inauguration, he started softening expectations on inflation. When asked about when will prices come down, between November and January, Trump started saying things like: “Well, you know, Biden’s got the prices up so high, it may be hard to get them down.” He started to say, in general, once prices go up, it’s hard to get them down. So Trump knows, and he knew those promises were nonsense.