February 05, 2025 10:59 AM UTC

Trump's Big Moves for Lowering the Cost of Groceries and Gas

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• by: Colorado Pols

President Trump is tackling what Americans said was the most important issue of the 2024 election — inflation and the cost of groceries (including eggs) — with a laser focus!

From The Associated Press:

Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women’s or girls’ sporting events. [Pols emphasis]

The order, which Trump is expected to sign at an afternoon ceremony, marks another aggressive shift by the Republican president’s second administration in the way the federal government deals with transgender people and their rights.

The president put out a sweeping order on his first day in office last month that called for the federal government to define sex as only male or female and for that to be reflected on official documents such as passports and in policies such as federal prison assignments.

Oh, well maybe that won’t do much to cut the cost of eggs. But what about this? As The New York Times reports:

President Trump declared on Tuesday that the United States should seize control of Gaza and permanently displace the entire Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave, one of the most brazen ideas that any American leader has advanced in years. [Pols emphasis]

Hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House, Mr. Trump said that all two million Palestinians from Gaza should be moved to countries like Egypt and Jordan because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s campaign against Hamas after the terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference Tuesday evening. “We’ll own it and be responsible” for disposing of unexploded munitions and rebuilding Gaza into a mecca for jobs and tourism. Sounding like the real estate developer he once was, Mr. Trump vowed to turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

This week the popular breakfast chain Waffle House announced a 50 cent surcharge — PER EGG — on all menu items because of the continued escalation of egg prices. Trump’s bonkers idea about Gaza will surely fix that problem!

Meanwhile, Trump’s obsession with tariffs is expected to cause significant pain at the pump. From ABC News:

While President Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to lower fuel prices for U.S. consumers with an edict of “drill, baby, drill,” energy experts predicted his pending tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China will lead to Americans paying more at the gas pump. [Pols emphasis]

Trump has signed an executive order slapping a 25% tariff on imports from Canada, with a 10% charge on natural gas and oil. Under it, Mexico will also be hit with a 25% tax on imports, including oil. And China faces a 10% tariff on all imports.

As a result of Trump’s actions, Canada has threatened to reciprocate with a 25% tariff on U.S. imports and Mexico has vowed to hit the U.S. with tariffs, which could further jack up prices for U.S. consumers.

Making America Great Again!

Just, you know, not right now.