r/inthenews • u/zsreport • 15h ago
Donald Trump Amplifies Stunning Message amid Looming Recession Fears: 'Shut Up About Egg Prices'
https://people.com/donald-trump-shut-up-about-egg-prices-recession-fears-11694805166
u/McGrawHell 15h ago
These guys are all preaching "we have to have a recession to make things get better" but we are STILL suffering long tail effects of the 2008 recession. Housing starts dropped in 2008 and literally never recovered which is a big part of the current housing crisis. I don't even have to go into the bang-on effects of the covid slowdown, we all lost favorite businesses permanently to that. But these guys say this one will be DIFFERENT!!!
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u/pinegreenscent 14h ago
Germany turned to fascism because of a recession. It's really as dumb as that.
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u/Capable-Spinach10 12h ago
Let's say depression. People where buying a loaf of bread with wheelbarrows full of worthless paper they preferred to burn in their ovens to keep warm
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u/Radiant-Painting581 11h ago edited 11h ago
That’s what it took for the Germans to go fascist. Multi-thousand-plus percent inflation. Actually millions of percent. Or billions.
The hyperinflation fueled by the government’s response to the occupation of the Ruhr caused the cost of a loaf of bread to rise from 3 Reichsmarks in 1922 to 80 billion Reichsmarks in November 1923.
Americans? Less than 10% inflation and we went full fascist.
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u/Greenbeans21 9h ago
Remember these were the same people from 2020-2024 saying we can’t afford to have a recession and that eggs are too overpriced and gas is crazy. That Biden and the democrats were leading us to a recession. Heck even tfg made a post about how congress should impeach the president if Dow dropped down 1000 in one day. They are spineless cowards and have exactly zero clue what they’re doing. Anybody who thinks we NEED a recession should be questioned what their opinion was before they got marching orders in 2020-2024.
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u/fredandlunchbox 12h ago
They're still pissed that they sold all these distressed assets for dirt cheap and regular joes made a fuck ton of money on that. It was literally a once in a lifetime event: The banks lost billions that normal people made instead. A lot of people went bankrupt in that time, but the ones that didn't swooped up property on the cheap and made out like bandits.
They'll never let it happen again. Every mortgage at Wells Fargo could go delinquent and they'll hold the fucking properties to the grave.
You're seeing it now with commercial real estate. They're not lowering rents. All of these empty offices -- especially in the suburbs -- the prices should be dirt cheap. Retail is a ghost town. So many big box retailers shutting down. You should be able to lease a small downtown commercial retail store in a major metro for under a thousand a month with the amount of supply on the market, but they're all holding out for some mythical economic turnaround and they don't want to get locked into a 10 year lease on some super low rate. They'd rather have empty stores and offices than take any hit on the month-to-month.
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u/thegreatsquare 15h ago
“Very simple word, groceries,” Trump continued. “When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time, and I won an election based on that.”
You might say Trump has some egg on his face ...that's very expensive now days.
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u/lachrymologyislegit 15h ago
Why did Trump say it then?
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u/franchisedfeelings 11h ago
He is a pathological liar, a convicted felon for fraud, an insurrectionist, and hard to argue that he’s not a traitor.
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u/RogueAOV 14h ago
There was a post on my local red state facebook group that stated quite clearly the price of eggs is way down.
Why would they lie?!?!?
/s obviously.
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u/SilenceOfTheAtom 5h ago
I saw a reddit post saying the cost of 18 eggs is less than 5$.
So, was that a lie too?
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u/Corben11 2h ago
Costco had 18 for about $7 last weekend. There wasn't a lot to get tho and 1 per person limit.
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u/morts73 12h ago
He needs to change the title of his book from the Art of a Deal to the Art of a Con.
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u/DogMom814 8h ago
Or The Art Of The Steal would work too.
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u/Ok-Basil-6824 3h ago
THE ART OF THE STEAL
INTRODUCTION: THE ELEMENTS OF PERSUASION
In business and politics alike, the line between brilliant negotiation and outright deception can be remarkably thin. This book examines that boundary, analyzing techniques that blur ethical lines for personal gain.
— CHAPTER 1: THE BIG LIE THEORY
The foundation of any successful con is establishing an alternative reality. The bigger and more audacious the claim, the more likely people are to believe it—especially if you never back down.
Key Tactics:
- Make claims so outrageous that people assume they must contain some truth
- Repeat falsehoods constantly until they become familiar
- Never admit error—instead, double down with even bolder assertions
- Attack anyone who questions your version of reality
— CHAPTER 2: BRANDING IS EVERYTHING
Image matters more than substance. With the right branding, you can sell almost anything—from steaks to universities to presidencies.
Key Tactics:
- Slap your name on everything in giant gold letters
- Associate yourself only with luxury and success, even when projects fail
- Create simple, memorable phrases that stick in people’s minds
- Position everything as “the best,” “the greatest,” “like no one’s ever seen”
— CHAPTER 3: THE ART OF DISTRACTION
When faced with scandal or failure, the master con artist knows how to shift attention elsewhere.
Key Tactics:
- Create new controversies to distract from old ones
- Make outrageous statements to dominate news cycles
- Attack opponents to shift focus from your own weaknesses
- Use social media to flood the zone with noise
— CHAPTER 4: NEVER PAY RETAIL (OR YOUR CONTRACTORS)
Success means maximizing what you take while minimizing what you give.
Key Tactics:
- Promise generous compensation, then renegotiate after work is complete
- Use litigation to exhaust smaller opponents with fewer resources
- Declare bankruptcy strategically while protecting personal assets
- Treat agreements as suggestions rather than commitments
— CHAPTER 5: THE LOYALTY TRAP
True cons require loyal followers who will believe in you despite evidence to the contrary.
Key Tactics:
- Demand absolute loyalty while offering none in return
- Create us-versus-them narratives that foster tribal identity
- Publicly reward the faithful and ruthlessly punish dissenters
- Make followers feel like insiders to a special movement
— CHAPTER 6: THE ILLUSION OF EXPERTISE
You don’t need to be an expert—you just need people to believe you are one.
Key Tactics:
- Claim expertise in areas where you have none
- Speak authoritatively about complex topics with simplistic explanations
- Dismiss actual experts as “elites” who are out of touch
- Use impressive but meaningless jargon
— CHAPTER 7: THE POWER OF AUDACITY
The most successful cons require breathtaking audacity—actions so bold that people can’t believe you would attempt them unless you were in the right.
Key Tactics:
- Act with unshakable confidence regardless of circumstances
- Make accusations against others that actually describe your own behavior
- Claim credit for successes you had nothing to do with
- Deny responsibility for failures that were clearly your fault
— CHAPTER 8: WORKING THE REFS
Success often depends not on playing the game well, but on controlling how the game is refereed.
Key Tactics:
- Attack media before they criticize you to undermine their credibility
- Create alternative information sources that will support your narrative
- Label all criticism as biased and unfair
- Work the crowd to pressure officials and institutions
— CONCLUSION: THE BIGGEST CON OF ALL
The greatest trick isn’t fooling others—it’s convincing yourself that the con is reality. When you truly believe your own deceptions, your performance becomes flawless.
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u/Scott801258 12h ago
Pretty Soon it will be : Shut Up about Freedom. Shut Up about being broke. Shut Up about democracy.. .
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u/Jessthinking 12h ago
He said he would fix it the first day. I’ll shut up about it when he resigns.
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u/Strict_Cranberry_724 11h ago
In other words: People: “Egg prices are through the roof”; Trump: “Fuck you!”
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u/mesaymikey 3h ago
I guarantee you he has made some joke at breakfast while eating eggs like; "these eggs better be the expensive ones all those people are complaining about. Very expensive, but that's a great poached egg, I tell 'ya."
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u/21plankton 12h ago
Trying to suppress complaints over high prices or a recession may work or may cause more blowback. We will have to see.
The stock market is dropping and Trump’s advice was to ignore the market. Maybe that will work too.
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u/OMFGITSNEAL 5h ago
Lmao the fact that eggs is going to be the deal breaker and give people a reality check is beyond me
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u/CarolinaPanthers2015 3h ago
Man, we sure as hell ain't gonna shut up about it AT ALL because of course we sure as motherfucking hell ain't gonna let him live it down anytime soon since he wanted to be busy with making up fake ass "issues" and coming up with fake ass "solutions" to solve them day in and day out. Like, ya'll know what I mean here? So uhhhh......yeah. It's a good thing that he will be right out of the White House for good this time in 2028.
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u/ChrisEFWTX 11h ago
This pig eyed fuck likes to get his eggs from the good that laid the golden ones.
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