Trump Sticks it to the Easter Bunny
April 20: Week In Review
Happy Easter! Or is it?
Trumpflation is ruining lots of people’s holidays this year. WalletHub released an interesting survey ahead of the holiday this week that underscores exactly how much Trump’s policies are hurting celebrations:
Less egg-stravagant Easter plans: 47% of Americans will skip dyeing eggs this Easter due to the price of eggs.
Easter egg-cise: Nearly 2 in 5 Americans expect tariffs to affect their Easter spending.
Impact of inflation: Nearly half of Americans expect inflation to affect their Easter spending this year.
Lack of financial confidence: 41% of Americans don’t feel confident about their finances heading into the spring.
It’s not just Easter. The skyrocketing price of eggs has impacted American eating habits. According to a Clarify Capital study, 61% of all Americans are eating fewer eggs because of the cost. More than a third of Americans (34%) have already stopped buying eggs, including baby boomers (31%), millennials (32%), Gen Zers (34%), and Gen Xers (38%). They report that they will start buying eggs again once they drop to $5 or less a dozen.
But in an act of gaslighting that would make Alfred Hitchcock blush, Trump said this week that egg prices are down by 92% since he entered the Oval Office. Here is what has really happened to the consumer price of eggs, which hit a record high last month, since Trump’s inauguration:
What does all this mean for Republicans in 2026?
In Maine, where Senator Susan Collins is up for re-election, egg prices have risen by 224% since Trump’s first term.
In North Carolina, where Senator Thom Tillis is up for re-election, egg prices have risen by 460% since Trump’s first term.
In Texas, where Senator John Cornyn is up for re-election (but may not survive a primary challenge from the legally beleaguered MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton), egg prices have risen by 318% since Trump’s first term.
In Iowa, where Senator Joni Ernst is up for re-election, egg prices have risen by 422% since Trump’s first term.
`And so on.
Meanwhile, high net-worth Americans are fleeing the American banking system for the relative safety of Switzerland as a result of Trump’s tariff chaos and the sinking dollar. CNBC reports that:
A growing number of wealthy Americans are opening bank accounts in Switzerland as part of the “de-Americanization” of their portfolios, according to investors and banks.
Swiss banks say they have seen a surge of interest and business from high-net-worth Americans opening investment accounts in recent months.
Trump’s tariffs are also beginning to hit American workers — especially the ones who live in states that delivered the election to him last November. Volvo announced that as a result of the tariffs, it is laying off as many as 350 workers at its Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania. As a result of the tariffs, Stellantis is laying off 900 workers at five U.S. plants in Michigan and Indiana, both states Trump won. Meanwhile, farmers from Arizona (which Trump won) to Arkansas (which Trump won) are on the cusp of losing their farms because of Trump’s trade war.
Is this what you voted for, America?
Further Reading:
WalletHub: Easter Survey (2025)
Clarify Capital: The Scramble for Eggs: How Inflation Is Changing Consumer Behavior
KRCR News Chanel 7: “The price went down 92%" Trump on egg prices while answering questions in the Oval Office
CNBC: More rich Americans are opening Swiss bank accounts fearing U.S. risks
CNBC: Volvo to cut up to 800 U.S. jobs as Trump’s tariffs bite
Fox 2 Detroit: Stellantis temporary layoffs: 900 US employees being laid off, Canada plant paused
ABC 15 Arizona: "It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market
KATV: Tariffs, economy threaten to force struggling Arkansas farmers out of business
“When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time, and I won an election based on that. We're going to bring those prices way down." - Donald Trump, Meet the Press, December 8, 2024.
Below is the most recently available national data on the average price of apples, bacon, and eggs.
Apples (Honeycrisp, per pound): $3.00 (up from $2.31 when Biden left office)
Bacon (sliced, per pound): $6.978 (March, 2025, up from $6.915 in December, 2024, which was Biden’s last full month in office)
Eggs (Grade A, Large, per dozen): $6.23 (March, 2025, up from $4.15 in December, 2024, which was Biden’s last full month in office)
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Happy Easter, everybody, and stay Salty!
Julie
Happy Easter Julie... You mention Switzerland, where I live... People can check the intensity of a crisis by the dollar/Swiss franc exchange rate. For one of my major projects, I get paid in dollars, and several of my clients are in Europe (political Europe, of course, for those who don't know, Switzerland is NOT in the EU).
Why do people invest in Switzerland? Precisely for the reason they are fleeing the USA: They want safety for their cash and that is guaranteed by a very stable political system. I should write about this, but have little time right now to inform my 26 followers... Swiss politics are amazingly stable. Not bad for a small nation with 4 national languages, 26 cantons, with three levels of federalism. And 8.5 million people, many foreigners, BTW...
And no matter how many jokes they make on each others' states (cantons), they stick together on some matters, like national unity. Watching the USA fall apart like a boiled Hollandaise is really quite sad... The old shibboleth "This is not who we are" is beginning to really sound deficient in light of the current dictatorship.
If Americans could look beyond their borders occasionally instead of navel-gazing, they could actually learn how to do some things better.
Happy Easter, Julie. I'm also infuriated about that shit show in the Oval with that gangster cosplaying as President of El Salvador. Karma is a stone cold bitch and it's coming for the lot of them.