The Left is coming after President Trump for hosting a children’s Easter Egg Roll. You really can’t make this stuff up.
To them, this was tone deaf. Why? Because, per their logic, the high cost of eggs should have prohibited the White House from continuing this nearly 150-year-old tradition.
In the words of the Democratic National Committee, “While working families dyed potatoes instead of eggs for Easter, Trump’s White House is flaunting a 30,000-egg event worth over $15,500 in eggs alone. “
Funny thing, though — the eggs were donated by American farmers, not taken from store shelves.
That’s right — the Trump administration did not spend a penny on these eggs. Instead of whining about the White House commemorating the holiest holiday of the year, The Left should get its facts straight.
But this is how the progressive outrage machine works — facts come second to headlines. Their real goal isn’t to “save the eggs.” It’s to politicize every aspect of American life, even a beloved, bipartisan, family-friendly tradition like the Easter Egg Roll.
Meanwhile, President Trump is the actively working to bring egg prices down.
His Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary Brooke Rollins, rolled out a $1 billion plan to fight avian flu, support poultry farmers, and make eggs affordable again — not through press releases or virtue signals, but with serious, targeted action. That includes gold-standard biosecurity measures on farms, faster relief for producers impacted by outbreaks, cutting red tape that drives up food costs, and investing in real solutions like smart import strategies.
And it’s working.
The price of a dozen wholesale eggs has already dropped from $6.39 on January 21, 2025 to under $3.15 today — a more than 50% reduction. Price cuts at the grocery store should soon follow. That’s not spin — that’s real relief.
The Trump administration is also stopping Biden’s radical agriculture agenda in its tracks.
It shut down the Climate-Smart Commodities program — a bloated, greenwashed slush fund where more than half the money never even reached farmers. In its place, the White House launched the Advancing Markets for Producers program — an initiative that will ensure least 65% of funds must go directly to producers.
The administration has also slammed the brakes on Biden’s war on pesticides by delaying enactment of a Biden EPA initiative to ban some of their uses. This regulatory effort was anti-consumer and anti-farmer.
Leftist climate warriors are quick to say otherwise, but the simple truth is that pesticides — which are already heavily regulated by the government — are safe, and they keep crop yields high and grocery prices low, core components of President Trump’s agenda.
According to one recent study, “without the use of pesticides, there would be a 78% loss of fruit production, a 54% loss of vegetable production, and a 32% loss of cereal production.” That would amount to a very hefty tax on every family’s weekly grocery bill, yet the regulatory happy Biden administration seemed all too willing to pull the trigger. Not on President Trump’s watch.
While The Left is busy playing politics with a longstanding children’s Easter tradition, Trump is doing what he always does. He’s solving problems. Lowering prices. Backing farmers. Defending American families — the ones who feed this country every day.
In other words, he’s busy Making Farming Great Again and Groceries Affordable Again, just as promised.
And for that, we’re all grateful.
Ken Blackwell is an adviser to the America First Policy Institute and the Family Research Council in Washington, DC. He is a former Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio Treasurer and Secretary of State. He is also a former member of the Trump transition team.
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