Did Trump take the egg? ‘ Meme is hatched from consumer frustration while pricing eggs improve
The egg was gone. Trump take the egg.
No, we didn’t hit our heads, forgot how to use a syntax or return to Caveman Times.
The term “Trump takes an egg” in fact is a viral mem circulates online while US consumers get into Prices of eggs of high heavenlyproblem He is now struggling in the midst of breaking bird’s flu. More than 166 million birds, of 30 million chickens, are slaughtered to restrict the spread of the virus when cases are found.
How are the prices of eggs scheduled to jump 41 percent This year, and US President Donald Trump interrupts his The campaign promises to reduce food costs for 1 days.Frustrated people online post photos of stunning eggs and empty shelves with three rubber words: Trump take the egg.
Sometimes, posts, many of them on Bluesky, just say “where the egg?” Or, “the egg is gone.”
According to the Business Media brand A fast companyThe first recorded post of “Trump Take Egg” came from Michael Tae Sweeney, a movie and television editor who wrote “Trump took the egg. The egg went” 4. February on Bluesky Above the common image of empty shelves of shops.
Sweeney said Fast Company that he was inspired after visiting Costco in San Diego, where “each single cart except mine already had two cards of 60 eggs in it, the most you were allowed to buy on one trip.”
As Schist Notes, posts mainly come from democrats and left commentators, and the shortened syntax “is intended to convey to blame the president for the shortage of eggs of a type of uncomplicated, visceral strategy that Democrats can use to achieve voters.”
“People go to the store. I can’t find eggs,” said the Haley Stevens Ua envoy Video posted on social networks February 18th.
“I see that this general commander does all these press conferences about every revenge and tactics and different types of federal government efforts. What do we do with costs?”
Prices are expected to rise 41%, with Easter on the way
The American Department of Agriculture provides that record egg prices could increase more than 41.1 percent in 2025. Prices have already hit all the time Average high than $ 4.95 Now ten this month, or about $ 7.15 CDN.
And average prices conceal how bad the situation is, because consumers pay more than dollars per egg – over $ 12 a dozen (more than 17 CDN) – in some places. Egg prices are also usually increased every spring to Easter when demand is high.
Prices were more than doubled before the outbreak began, costing consumers at least $ 1.4 billion last year, according to an assessment of agricultural economists at the University of Arkansas. Restaurants like Denny’s and Waffle House started adding to eggs.
AND The latest newslette of cooking New York Times Settered completely versions of egg recipes, noting that “chicken egg prices grow to a luxurious food level.”
It was ia spike of egg theft. Earlier in the month, someone stole 100,000 organic eggs worth about $ 40,000 (57,000 CDN), with the back of a distribution trailer in Pennsylvania. A few weeks later, Thieves hit a cafe in SeattluRemoval with 540 eggs.
Meanwhile, US Customs and Border Border Protection Agents in El Pas in Texas stopped at least 90 people to try to smuggle raw eggs in the country from Mexico since January, UA agency said Edition of News 21. February.
Experts have previously told the CBC News da Canada is unlikely to see a similar spikeDue to its smaller farms and resistant supply management systems. In Canada the price of a dozen eggs was about $ 4.75 CDN in December, according to Canada statistics.
The price of egg cardboard remained relatively stable in Canada, despite the high prices of eggs that hit now in the midst of the outburst of bird flu. Experts say it is because of smaller Canada farms and that epidemics are managed here.
Will Trump give an egg?
“People seem to eat gold now,” she told CBC Radio Denise McCarrick, owner of Nancy’s Diner in Grafton, Ohio Current Last week.
Diner mainly serves breakfast, said McCarrick, and the most handsome item on the menu are omelets. But these days, the case of 15 dozen wholesale eggs costs around $ 195 CDN, compared to $ 115 a few months ago and about $ 87 last year.
McCarrick says a little hope that Trump’s promise will reduce food prices for 1 day.
“I mean, no matter where you sit politically, you know, you always hope for the best. But it’s not really something I plan to do. He likes to speak in a lot of hyperbole.”
Current14:55Us eggs are so expensive that they feel like ‘eat gold’
Egg prices are so high in the US now that owner Ohio Diner Denise McCarrick says she feels like her customers eat gold. We look at how the hail of flu helps to increase these prices, plus which means for work – and for breakfast – when the omelets become a luxury item.
Trump’s administration offered the first new details on Wednesday about its plan to fight the flu flu and cost alleviation.
With an emphasis on farms, tightened measures to prevent the spread of bird flu, the Minister of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said that USDA would invest more $ 1 billion on top of approximately two billion dollars, which he had already spent since the epidemic began in 2022.
Rollins admitted that he would pass for a while before consumers see the effect on the check -off counter. It is necessary to infectious months for the laying of corpses, to repair their farms and to raise new birds. But she expressed optimism that the plan would help prices.
Meanwhile, u OP-ed in Wall Street Journal On Thursday, Rollins wrote that, as part of his five -point plan to reduce egg prices, “to consider temporary imports to reduce egg costs in the short term.”
What could become clumsy, given that today Trump said 25 percent of tariffs to most Canadian goods comes on March 4.
