Eggs are cheaper than when Trump took office. ‘Everything else’? Absolutely not | CNN Politics

Eggs have gotten much cheaper since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. But “everything else” too, as Trump claimed on Monday? Absolutely not. Far more prices have gone up since his second inauguration than have gone down. Trump, facing widespread public discontent on the cost of living, has repeatedly pivoted to eggs when discussing broad affordability issues – and, on Monday, tried to make it sound as if the major reduction in egg prices has been mirrored by a similar reduction in all other prices. In a speech in Michigan, he said, “Now eggs are much lower than they were when we first started. And that’s true with everything else. And you’ll see how true it’s going to be after we get rid of the nuclear threat of Iran, which will be very quickly.” In reality, federal Consumer Price Index figures on the prices of 332 products or product categories show that eggs – down 32.7% between January 2025 and June 2026 – are a distant outlier, not the norm. Overall consumer prices were up 4.3% over the same period, so it’s obviously impossible that “everything” got “much lower.” But it’s striking to see just how much of a special case eg