Donald Trump

 Independent, UK -  President Donald Trump vowed to bring down the price of eggs on the first day of his second term — now he reposted an article asking the public to “shut up about egg prices.”

Speaking next to a table of packaged goods during an August press conference, Trump promised, should he be re-elected, to lower grocery prices on “day one.”

“Grocery prices have skyrocketed. Cereals are up 26 percent, bread is up 24 percent, butter is up 37 percent, baby formula is up 30 percent, flour is up 38 percent, and eggs are up 46 percent,” he said. “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.”

More recently, in his speech to Congress last week, Trump said: “Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control. The egg prices out of control. And we are working hard to get it back down.”

But over the weekend, he signaled he may have had enough of discussing the rising costs when he shared on Truth Social conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s Daily Caller article titled “Shut Up About Egg Prices — Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions.”

In the piece, Kirk points fingers at the former president and insists that Trump should get credit for his efforts to curb inflation. “The high price of eggs is in no way President Trump’s fault. Almost all the increase took place during Biden’s final months in office,” he wrote, pointing to the bird flu outbreak. Tens of millions of hens have been lost to the virus since January, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s March Egg Markets Overview.