Egg away. Trump take egg.
No, we didn’t hit our heads, forgot how to use Syntax or return to the Haveman times.
The term “Trump Take Egg” is indeed a viral meme that circulates online because the US consumers deal with sky-high egg prices, a problem that the United States plagued in the middle of a outbreak of bird flu. More than 166 million birds, 30 million of them, were slaughtered to limit the spread of the virus if cases are found.
Since egg prices are expected to increase by 41 percent this year and the US President Donald Trump promises his campaign promise to reduce food costs on day 1, publish frustrated people online photos of amazing egg prices and empty shelves with three pithy words: Trump Take Ei.
Sometimes the posts say, many of them on bluesky, simply “where egg?” Or “egg away.”
According to Fast Company Fast Company Fast Company of the Business Media brand, the first recorded “Trump Take Egg” post by Michael Tae Sweeney, a film and television editor who wrote “Trump Take Egg. Egg Gone”, came over a common picture of empty shops.
SWEENEY said almost Company that he was inspired after visiting Costco in San Diego, where “each individual car already contained two boxes of 60 eggs next to me, most of them what they were allowed to buy on a trip”.
As Slate states, the contributions mainly come from democrats and left -wing commentators, and the shortened syntax “should convey that the guilt of the president of egg shortage is the kind of uncomplicated, visceral strategy, with which Democrats can reach voters.”
“People go into the store. They cannot find eggs,” said Rep. Haley Stevens in a video that was published on social media on February 18.
“I see that this commander -in -chief makes all of these press conferences about every revenge and tactics and different kinds of efforts for the federal government. What do we do with the costs?”
The prices are expected to increase by 41%, with Easter on the way
The US Agriculture Ministry predicts that record-end prices in 2025 could increase more by 41.1 percent. The prices have already reached an all-time average high of $ 4.95 per dozen this month or about $ 7.15.
And the average prices hide hide how bad the situation is, and consumers pay more than a dozen (more than $ 17) -over $ 12 (more than $ 17). Egg prices usually increase in every spring in Easter when demand is high.
After the outbreak began, prices have more than doubled, which cost consumers at least 1.4 billion US dollars last year. This emerges from an estimate by the agricultural economists at the University of Arkansas. Restaurants such as Denny’s and Waffle House added egg dishes to surcharges.
The recent New York Times cooked newsletter was completely with an egg-free recipes and found that “the prices for chicken egg rise to luxurious food”.
There was also an increase in egg thefts. At the beginning of the month, someone stole 100,000 organic eggs worth around 40,000 US dollars (57,000 US dollars) who leave a sales trailer behind in Pennsylvania. A few weeks later, thieves hit a café in Seattle and made 540 eggs.
In the meantime, the US customs and border guards in El Paso, Texas, held at least 90 people from smuggling raw eggs from Mexico into the country since January, the agency said in a press release on February 21.
Experts have previously announced CBC News that Canada will probably not see a similar increase due to its smaller agricultural and resilient supply management system. In Canada, the price for a dozen eggs in December was about 4.75 US dollars in December, according to Statistics Canada.
The price of a egg carton has remained relatively stable in Canada. Experts say that this is due to smaller Canadian farms and how outbreaks are managed here.
Will Trump give egg?
“It feels like people are now eating gold,” Denise McCarrick, owner of Nancy’s Diner in Grafton, Ohio, told CBC Radio’s The current one Last week.
The diner mainly serves breakfast, said McCarrick, and the hottest article on the menu are omeletts. But nowadays it costs a case of 15 dozen wholesale eggs around 195 US dollars compared to 115 US dollars a few months ago and last year around 87 US dollars.
McCarrick says she has little hope that Trump’s day 1 promises to reduce food prices.
“I mean, regardless of where they sit politically, they always hope for the best. But it is not really something that I do. He likes to speak in a lot of exaggeration.”
The current one14:55US eggs are so expensive that it feels like eating gold.
Egg prices in the USA are now so high that Denise McCarrick, Denise McCarrick, says in Ohio Diner owner that their customers eat gold. We look at how the bird flu helps to increase these prices and what it means for business – and for breakfast – when omelets become a luxury item.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration offered the first new details about its plan to fight against bird flu and alleviate costs.
With a focus on agricultural emphasis that tightened their measures to prevent the spread of bird flu, said the Minister of Agriculture Brooke Rollins that the USDA would invest a further 1 billion US dollar over the approximately 2 billion US dollars, which it has spent since the beginning of the outbreak in 2022.
Rollins confirmed that it will take some time for consumers to see an effect on the buying table. It takes months of infected farms to dispose of the carcasses, to renovate their farms and raise new birds. But she expressed optimism that the plan will help prices.
In an op-ET in Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Rollins wrote that they will “consider temporary import options as part of their five-point plan to reduce egg prices in order to reduce the eight costs at short notice”.
This could be uncomfortable because Trump said today that a tariff of 25 percent for most Canadian goods will take place on March 4.
