President Donald Trump championed a drop in egg prices as he addressed a full crowd on the South Lawn Monday for the annual White House Easter egg roll.
“The price was so high, it was four times higher than it was a year before,” Trump said as he brought up last year’s jump in prices and how he enlisted Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s help to bring them down.
“And within a short period of time, eggs came down,” said Trump, who insisted on using real eggs during the event, which brought dozens of children and parents to the White House. “They came down 40%, 50% and by the time we got there, we had so many eggs we didn’t know what to do with them.”
“And today, we have more than 40,000 eggs applied by all of the great egg farmers that are with us,” he added.
Trump faced a wave of negative headlines soon after his return to the White House in 2025 as the avian flu contributed to a spike in prices, though the pain for consumers has since eased. The price has come down 60% from last year’s high, according to the Associated Press, as millions of eggs were purchased over the Easter holiday.
Trump’s comments come as consumers deal with a dramatic spike in energy costs due to the Iran war, which began on Feb. 28.
Trump has given Iran a Tuesday 8 p.m. deadline to negotiate a ceasefire, which he reiterated while speaking with reporters at the egg roll.
“You don’t mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong, not so strong like they were about a month ago,” Trump said of Iran.
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“I can tell you, in fact, right now, they’re not too strong at all, in my opinion,” Trump said. “But we’re soon going to find out, aren’t we?“
Iran has disrupted the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz since Operation Epic Fury began. Trump has called on U.S. allies to seize the strait, but even if the strait is no longer under Iranian control, energy prices are likely to remain high for weeks.