Donald Trump wants us all to believe that his long-promised “Golden Age” for the United States has begun, and he reinforced that foolish claim this morning with a social media post in which he insisted that gas and grocery prices across the country are “WAY DOWN.”
Here’s the Liar-in-Chief’s posting:
Is there any truth to Trump’s boast? Nope. And CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale corrected Trump for his continued bragging about lower prices.
“Trump claimed last Thursday that gas prices ‘hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states.’ That wasn’t true. No state had an average gas price below $2.70 per gallon on Wednesday, according to data from AAA, which reported a national average of about $3.17 per gallon. And the lowest individual Wednesday price found by the firm GasBuddy, which tracks tens of thousands of gas stations across the country, was $2.19 at a station in Texas.”
“Trump claimed last Thursday and Friday that grocery prices ‘are down’ and then claimed Tuesday that they have “come down.” False again. Average grocery prices in March were up about 0.49% from February, according to federal Consumer Price Index data, which was the biggest month-to-month jump since October 2022. Average grocery prices in March were also up about 2.41% from the previous March, the biggest year-over-year jump since August 2023.”
“These increases happened before Trump imposed 10% tariffs in early April on imports from most countries, which are certain to raise the prices of some grocery items.”
“Egg prices have spiked over the past year amid a bird flu outbreak. Trump claimed Tuesday that ‘as you know, the cost of eggs has come down like 93, 94% since we took office.’ That is wildly inaccurate.”
“A decline of 93% or 94% from the national average consumer cost of a dozen large Grade A eggs in January, about $4.95, would mean that eggs are now costing consumers under 38 cents per dozen. Any grocery shopper can tell you that is nowhere close to true; in March, this national average price hit a record high of about $6.23 per dozen. It’s very possible the April average is lower — the data will be published in May — but clearly not nearly as low as Trump said.”
Trump is lying. Again. Just like he always does. And he got swatted down by Americans who have to try to make ends meet every month.
