Trump under pressure – Egg crisis: Americans dye potatoes for Easter

During his election campaign, the Republican promised to fight the high prices on the supermarket shelves “from the first day”. Since then the US president has been employed. Trump broke a trade war from the fence – and therefore that the hardships of many Americans were further tightened.

$ 50 – and hardly anything in the bag …
The US Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona has now calculated what a daily purchase in his state now costs. For a salad, a glass of peanut butter, 12 eggs, about two liters of milk, a bread from bread, a package of fascinated and breakfast flakes, you have to put almost $ 50 on the table. If you earn the national minimum wage, you have to work for more than six hours, Kelly stated.

“The costs should actually fall from Trump’s presidency on the first day, but only continue to rise – and the rates will still make the situation worse,” said the Democrat on X.

He touches Trump where it hurts politically. The American president sees the egg prize as an indicator if he is doing well. In short: Trump is obsessed with eggs. On every occasion, the Republican tells about the oval delicacies and how the prices supposedly deposited into the basement since he took office. The problem: consumers see no discounts and are in many places for empty shelves.

“Eggs are now 79 percent cheaper and they are everywhere,” Trump said recently when he received the Israeli head of the Benjamin Netanyahu government in the White House. Even when Trump spent the Ukrainian President Wolodyymyr Senskyj for running cameras, he had previously talked about falling egg prices in his presence.

Register high for egg prices
The official consumer price index says something else: in March the egg prices in the United States increased to a record high. According to this, eggs were more expensive by 5.9 percent compared to February, while inflation decreased by a total of 0.1 percent. Consumers had to pay the record price of $ 6.23 (around 5.50 euros) for a dozen eggs. This corresponds to a doubling in the past twelve months. Although prices also attract prices in Europe, this is considerably more expensive than in this country.

The main reason is the bird flu in the US. In the first three months of this year alone, more than 19 million birds had to be killed because of the highly contagious H5N1 virus. Since the start of the eruptions, there have been nearly 170 million birds since CDC.

Trump’s zigzag course in the Zöllen is also noticeable. The American Federal Reserve Fed and well -known economists have warned the government for weeks of rising consumer prices. But instead of ending customs healthcare, Trump prefers central bank boss Jerome Powell with the removal. “I am not happy with him,” Trump was killed shortly before Easter.

Americans now color potatoes
Due to the shortage of chicken and egg, the United States has asked other countries for deliveries. And of course colored eggs should not be missing at Easter. Trump’s Minister of Agriculture Brooke Rollins promised a “Superbowl of the Eggs” against better knowledge of Easter and advised American citizens to easily keep chickens in the back garden itself.

As you know, despair makes inventive. There are absurd tips on social networks about how eggs can be replaced at Easter. An account is particularly noticeable here – the so -driven Tradwives. According to Trump’s family photo in online networks, they spend traditional housewives, but they earn money with advertisements. These women advertise an alternative recipe: colored potatoes. They are considerably cheaper and deceptively comparable. Alternatively, children can also search for colored stones …