Trump Quotes Charlie Kirk: “Shut Up About Egg Prices”

From Charlie Kirk’s Daily Caller op-ed:

Democrats are positively giddy about the price of eggs. A dozen currently costs around $7, up from just $2 in October. For liberals who resent President Trump’s overwhelming electoral mandate, that’s sufficient proof that these backward, “extreme” MAGA Republicans didn’t know what they were voting for. First, the high price of eggs is in no way President Trump’s fault.

Almost all the increase took place during Biden’s final months in office. Why? Because in response to a bird flu outbreak, his administration decided to reenact the Godfather baptism scene with America’s chickens. Reversing four years of economic malpractice will take time to reverse, but the building blocks of America’s next great low-inflation, high-wage growth boom have already been laid — and soon enough, so too will the eggs.

Read the full article. Of note, Kirk’s column is dated February 17th – nearly a month ago – but Trump still felt compelled to shared it on Truth Social last night.