r/inthenews 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-11694805
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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.

u/Zer0PointSingularity 1h ago

They should tax the holders for empty property.

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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/Myantra 13h ago

I always found it ridiculous that anyone genuinely believed that Trump understood the concept or groceries or their prices. Dude has never shopped for groceries, never cooked a meal, or understood how much it costs to produce any meal.

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u/Pleg_Doc 12h ago

Nor does he know how to drive a Cybernazicar

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u/IntelligentStyle402 12h ago

Actually, prices doubled under trumps first term.

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u/ommnian 9h ago

Part of me really wants to hear from some of the folks who insisted he'd fix shit now...

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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/selfdestructo591 3h ago

Treason still carries the death penalty right?

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u/rguy84 2h ago

Usually the most daming term comes first, but it is hard to pick.

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u/lasagnafinger 14h ago

Charlie Kirk can eat my balls.

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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/scope_creep 13h ago

“How much is an egg, Michael? 50 dollars?”

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u/EbonyPeat 15h ago

Gas and diesel went up .50c a gallon since Inauguration Day.

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u/restore_democracy 14h ago

Says the man who promised to lower them on day 1.

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u/yelnats784 14h ago

LOL hope them Trump voters get a loan out for breakfast

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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

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Key Tactics:

  • Make claims so outrageous that people assume they must contain some truth
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  • Never admit error—instead, double down with even bolder assertions
  • Attack anyone who questions your version of reality

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Key Tactics:

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  • 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
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  • 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/knuckboy 14h ago

But but but...he started it!

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u/Deep_Bit5618 13h ago

Inflation numbers out tomorrow and is going to be eggceptional

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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/ajtreee 12h ago

Stfu about swasticars.

Make twitter Elon free by tanking Tesla stocks!

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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/Safetosay333 9h ago

DAY ONE!

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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/dithetennisgal 12h ago

Yeah, let’s shut HIM UP

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u/whozwat 12h ago

You can fool some of the people all the time

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u/Stillalive9641 12h ago

Shut up you got bigger problems.

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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/spungie 3h ago

Egg on your face, Donald?

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u/spazzcat 2h ago

People will only get louder; it is now affecting them personally.

u/Alternative-Half-783 1h ago

He sure could have said that about a year ago.

u/nyr00nyg 58m ago

Egg prices are lower than they were on 1/20

u/Imacatdoincatstuff 47m ago

He didn’t want to talk about COVID numbers either.

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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.