Day 1 to DAY 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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Drawing of Elon Musk head and upper chest

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

Trump as Poseidon holding trident

Tank in D.C. Parade

Fancy place setting in Trump ballroom

Kids grabber claw reaching to pinch Venezuela

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

One cuff of a pair of handcuffs snapped on the handle of a judge's gavel

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

Northern Cardinal lying dead on its back

Traffic light blinking both red and green

Troops standing in front of capitol building

The Big Beautiful Bill

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.

 

Green border with dollar signs

Gold border with dollar signs

000

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Text Days since prices were supposed to be lowered

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

 

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

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TRUMP CREATES DOGE

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Less government =

less food ordered =

more supply =

lower prices, right?

 

Capitol building photo from Wikimedia

Used under CC 4.0 license, gray filter applied.

Staff dismisses food truck in front of the capitol building

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

A Sharpie

 

 

 

 

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

RELEASE THE WATER

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Trump: TURNED THE WATER ON!

Farmers: NO!!

The water Trump had released was

stored to help crops in San Joaquin Valley

during a potentially dry summer.

TRUMP ARRANGES MILITARY PARADE IN D.C.

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Could we loan those tanks to

farmers to plow fields?

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:

 

ICE ARRESTS IN COURTHOUSE

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 disagree more loudly WHILE

meeting their violence with non-violent RESOLVE.

Trump would like nothing more than

to have protests boil over into hostilities

so he can invoke the war powers act.

 

Flags at Half Mast derived from public domain pictures

 

Two U.S. flags flying at half mast.

 

 

 

 

EVERYTHING'S AN EMERGENCY

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Trump declares national emergencies for

illegal immigration and fentanyl deaths.

But food from Canada and Mexico …

… a 25% tariff on our neighbors?

Better raise the price on our maple syrup tacos!

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.

 

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:

We don’t love to, but we are passing tariff costs on to you, buyers.

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

So we cut a little food aid?

And the chains lose a little profits?