The Great Con: It Was Never About the Price of Eggs
Trump’s Policies and Empty Promises are Squeezing Working Families
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is up. Again. This isn’t some abstract economic trend—it’s a real, daily struggle for millions of Americans just trying to make ends meet. Families across this country are feeling it. Groceries cost more. So let’s get one thing straight, the election was never really about the price of eggs. It was never about keeping more money in the pockets of working families. That was just a sales pitch (a compelling sales pitch from a profoundly dishonest salesman)—the shiny object waved around to distract from Trump’s agenda spelled out for us in Project 2025.
If you believed that Donald Trump, a conman “billionaire” who has declared bankruptcy six times and whose entire existence has been built on ripping people off and hoarding wealth at the expense of the working class, actually cared about how much money you got to keep in your pocket, you got conned. It’s not that all billionaires don’t care about protecting your wallet. Because I can think of quite a few who have worked and are working to put working families first. But I will say this: you can’t teach empathy.
The Trump-Vance campaign promise of lowering prices on day 1? They didn’t mean it. They never meant it. The tax cuts they promised? They were never meant for you. Deregulation? That was for their bottom line, not your grocery bill. The truth is they’ve never been on the side of the “forgotten” working class. If they were, they wouldn’t propose slashing taxes for the ultra-wealthy while wages continue to stagnate. They wouldn’t push policies that help corporations rake in record profits while paychecks for working families barely cover the cost of living. And they certainly wouldn’t impose tariffs that make everything more expensive. Or threaten more tariffs.
We should talk about those tariffs—Trump’s tariffs, specifically. They aren’t some masterstroke of economic policy designed to help American workers. They are a tax on you, on every working family in this country. Every time tariffs are slapped on imported goods, those costs are passed directly on to us, the consumer. That means we pay more at the grocery store, we pay more for appliances, we pay more for cars, we pay more for everyday necessities.
This leaves working families left trying to figure out how to make their paychecks stretch. For them, this is an actual crisis. Yes, the CPI rose. No, those aren’t just numbers on a government report. It’s dinner plates with smaller portions. It’s single mothers skipping meals so their children don’t have to. It’s parents prioritizing utility bills over their kid’s new shoes. It’s families wondering if they’ll be able to afford school supplies. It’s seniors on fixed incomes realizing that their “golden years” are anything but.
Are we great again?
Rising prices don’t hit everyone the same way. For the privileged ultra-wealthy, inflation is a talking point, not a crisis. They don’t bat an eye at a $9 carton of eggs. They’re unfazed by a 30% increase in rent.
But the reality for most Americans is that these price hikes determine what kind of life they are able to provide for their children. And yet, the voters have been conned by Donald Trump for a second time into believing that he’s empathetic enough to care about working families. I mean c’mon, do you actually believe that the same people who created this crisis are the ones who will save the day by fixing it?
No, this was never about the price of eggs.