OPINION:
Now, the left is coming after President Trump for … hosting the children’s Easter Egg Roll last Monday. You really can’t make this stuff up.
To them, this was tone deaf. Why? Because, per their logic, the high cost of eggs should have prohibited the White House from continuing this nearly 150-year-old tradition.
In the words of the Democratic National Committee, “While working families dyed potatoes instead of eggs for Easter, Mr. Trump’s White House is flaunting a 30,000-egg event worth over $15,500 in eggs alone.”
The funny thing, though, is that the eggs were donated by American farmers and were not taken from store shelves.
That’s right: The Trump administration did not spend a penny on these eggs. Instead of whining about the White House commemorating the holiest holiday of the year, the left should get its facts straight.
However, this is how the liberal outrage machine works: Facts come second to headlines. Their real goal isn’t to “save the eggs.” It’s to politicize every aspect of American life, even a beloved, bipartisan, family-friendly tradition like the Easter Egg Roll.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump is actively working to bring down egg prices.
His Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary Brooke Rollins, rolled out a $1 billion plan to fight avian flu, support poultry farmers and make eggs affordable again — not through press releases or virtue signaling, but with serious, targeted action. That includes gold-standard biosecurity measures on farms, faster relief for producers impacted by outbreaks, cutting red tape that drives up food costs, and investing in real solutions such as smart import strategies.
And it’s working.
The price of a dozen wholesale eggs dropped from $6.19 on Jan. 17 to less than $3.20 today — a nearly 50% reduction. Price cuts at the grocery store should soon follow.
The Trump administration is also stopping President Biden’s radical agriculture agenda.
It shut down the Climate-Smart Commodities program, a bloated, greenwashed slush fund where more than half the money never even reached farmers. In its place, the White House launched the Advancing Markets for Producers program, an initiative that will ensure at least 65% of funds go directly to producers.
The administration has also slammed the brakes on Mr. Biden’s war on farmers and grocery affordability by delaying the enactment of a Biden Environmental Protection Agency initiative to ban some pesticide uses.
Leftist climate warriors are quick to say otherwise, but pesticides, which are already heavily regulated by the government, are safe, and they keep crop yields high and grocery prices low, core components of Mr. Trump’s agenda. According to one recent study, “without the use of pesticides, there would be a 78% loss of fruit production, a 54% loss of vegetable production, and a 32% loss of cereal production.” That would amount to a hefty tax on every family’s weekly grocery bill, yet the regulatory happy Biden administration seemed all too willing to pull the trigger. Not on Mr. Trump’s watch.
While the left is busy playing politics with a long-standing children’s Easter tradition, Mr. Trump is doing what he always does. He is solving problems, lowering prices and defending American farmers.
In other words, he is busy making farming great again and groceries affordable again, just as promised.
For that, we’re all grateful.
• Ken Blackwell is an adviser to the Family Research Council in Washington. He is a former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio treasurer and secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He is also a former member of the Trump transition team.
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