Trump: “Groceries Basically Means You’re Buying Food”

“Costs are way down, groceries are way. They have a term – groceries. It’s an old term, but it means basically what you’re buying: food. It is a pretty accurate term, but it’s an old-fashioned sound, but groceries are down. Costs are down, eggs are down.They were, first week they were hitting me with eggs were up 200% and now they are down to a number that is amazing with down 97, 98% from where they were. And everybody, they said, you won’t have eggs for Easter. Well, everybody had eggs for Easter at a very reasonable price. At the White House, we had our little Easter egg roll and hundreds of thousands of eggs purchased. They said, You have to go out and buy plastic eggs. That didn’t work out. So we’ve done a real job.” – Trump, speaking today in Abu Dhabi, where people have never bought groceries.

Trump to UAE president: “We have a term ‘groceries.’ It’s an old term but it means basically what you’re buying, food, it’s a pretty accurate term but it’s an old fashioned sound but groceries are down.” pic.twitter.com/TGe83GQyot

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2025