From Day 1 to 366: FOODS NOT CHEAPER

Trump said he would bring prices down on Day One. When food costs did not drop last February (2025), I started tracking the price of three foods that most people buy: ground beef, bread, and coffee. Now, on Day 366, I found that each of those cost more than or the same as they did when Donald Trump took office. 

So what did Trump focus on during his first year if not prices? Below I show my tracked prices in parallel with the actions that President Trump put his energy into. You can make up your own mind about how well things turned out.

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Gulf of Mexico map with America written on it in place of "Mexico"

Trump as Poseidon holding trident

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Kids grabber claw reaching to pinch Venezuela

Chart of prices changes to beef, bread, and coffee in 2025

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Trump declares emergencies on immigration, fentanyl, and Mexico and Canada.

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The foods I tracked are:

Small package of Meijer Angus Ground Beef

Loaf of Meijer Split Top white bread

Plastic jar of Maxwell House coffee

Meijer brand Angus Ground Beef; 80% lean, 20% fat, small package

Meijer Split Top Enriched Bread White 22 oz.

Maxwell House Original Roast ground coffee, 27.5 oz can.

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text (at least) objects of gold in the oval office

 

Count how many gold objects you see in Trump’s Oval Office:

Newsweek: Trump Has Blinged Out Oval Office

Newsweek: Trump ‘Highest Quality’ Gold Used

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TRUMP CREATES DOGE

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Less government = less food ordered = more supply =

lower prices,

right?

Food truck in front of capitol building.

Capitol building photo from Wikimedia, Used under CC 4.0 license, gray filter applied.

RENAME GULF OF MEXICO

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Trump actually wanted to change the name to

“Gulf of Trump“.

Food price factors – weather and shipping – remain unchanged.

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Gulf of Mexico map with America written on it in place of "Mexico"

RELEASE THE WATER

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In February:

Trump as Posieden crows as he releases Northern California water

In July:

Farmers in San Joaquin Valley protest that Trump released their irrigation water too early.

Trump obviously doesn’t eat fruits and vegetables. One article says that

the farms of San Joaquin Valley grow 25% of the United States’ produce.

With average summer rainfall under 1″ per month, San Joaquin Valley

farmers count on the water in the Northern California reservoir to

irrigate their crops. Water that Trump ordered let loose in February.

There might have been days this past Fall that he did not

get tomatoes on his burgers. (But he might not like tomatoes on burgers).

TRUMP ARRANGES MILITARY PARADE IN D.C.

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Could we loan those tanks to
farmers to plow fields?

Tank stuck in mud in field; farmer pulling it out with horses

TRUMP BALLROOM

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Where we can get good food for cheap.

INVADE VENEZUELA

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The real reason Trump invaded Venezuela:

TRUMP AUTHORIZES ICE ARRESTS IN COURTHOUSE

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Trump orders ICE to start arrests in courthouses.

Deport those price gougers!

ICE agents arresting person in court hallway

There is nothing funny about ICE killing two protesters in Minneapolis.

We must continue objecting to ICE’s vicious handling of suspects. We

need to speak out while avoiding any violence.

Trump would like nothing more than to have protests boil

over into hostilities so he can invoke the war powers act.

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EVERYTHING'S AN EMERGENCY

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Trump declares national emergencies for both illegal immigration

and fentanyl deaths. But food from Canada and Mexico …

… he puts a 25% tariff on our neighbors?

Chef and waitress discuss raising prices due to tariffs

 

DOGE CUTS ... AND CUTS

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Don’t need nuclear weapons experts.

Nor do we need bird flu authorities.

To help our egg producing birds.

To poultry farmers bemoan chickens dying of bird flu

Elon Musk brandishing chainsaw over his head

TARIFFS: ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN

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Tariff’s say dreamily:

He loves me –

He loves me not –

He loves …

Walmart, Kroger, Safeway say:

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NATIONAL GUARD IN D.C.

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Man, my wife is going to kill me when I get back.

For two years I promised I would put her in a veggie garden.

I just started digging when we got called up.

Sure, NO ONE saw it coming, but she’ll still be madder

than a tipped steer that I got caught up by the call out.

And if she ever finds out that I voted for Trump …

BIG ABOMINABLE BILL

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So we cut a little food aid?

And the chains lose a little profits?