Have egg prices gone down? Fact-checking Trump's 59% price drop claim

The US President is on to making bold claims!


On Wednesday, during his tariff speech, President Donald Trump claimed that egg prices had declined by 59%. Praising Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, the President said, “Secretary of Agriculture, great job you did on eggs. Now we have lots of eggs, and they’re much cheaper—down about 59% now—and they’re going down further.”

He added, "As you know, just in a couple of— in a month and a half, we were there for four weeks. The first week, I got blamed for eggs. I said, ‘I just got here.’ They said, ‘Eggs have gone up like 250%, and you can’t get eggs.’ And they were going crazy.”

He continued, "And then we got to work on eggs, and we got to work on everything. And our great Secretary of Agriculture, you did a fantastic job, Brooke Rollins. And as I said before, the price of eggs dropped now 59%, and they’re going down more. And the availability is fantastic.”

The President concluded, “They were saying that for Easter, ‘Please don’t use eggs. Could you use plastic eggs?’ I said, ‘We don’t want to do that.’ And you really came through. It’s an amazing job. Thank you very much, Brooke. You did great.”



What’s the truth?

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in its weekly egg market report on April 2 that wholesale egg prices fell to $3.00 per dozen, marking a 9% decline from the previous week.

The report mentioned, “The supply situation at grocery outlets has greatly improved in recent weeks and consumers are once again seeing fully stocked shelves and enjoying a range of choices without purchase restrictions.”


Let’s go back a bit.


In February 2025, the average retail egg price was around $5.90 per dozen.



As per a CNN report, the recent decline is largely attributed to a slowdown in avian flu cases and reduced demand due to previously high prices, allowing suppliers to rebuild their stock.


For the unversed, the bird flu outbreak, particularly the wave that began in 2022, has had a devastating impact on US poultry farms. More than 156 million birds have been killed, disrupting the supply chain and causing prices to climb. Since the outbreak began in 2022, 145 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds have been slaughtered to keep the virus from spreading. It should be noted that there are nearly 380 million egg-laying chickens and more than 9 billion broiler chickens in the U.S.


Although Stew Leonard, Jr., owner of the Stew Leonard’s grocery store chains, told CNN, “We’re back to low price eggs again. There seems to be plenty of supply,” according to the USDA, it may take a few weeks for wholesale price drops to reflect on most grocery store shelves. Stew Leonard, Jr. added, “I’ve talked to our farmers down in Pennsylvania that have a number of farms with egg laying hens. They’re repopulating their stock again. Production seems to be back up.”



As per the Department of Agriculture’s report, “Only now starting to see shelf prices slowly decline. Demand from egg products manufacturers is mostly light as many have been able to take advantage of a sluggish carton market to build supplies on the spot market, enough to increase production levels to a 3-month high.”


Solving the egg-stream problem!

After being rejected by Poland, Finland, and Denmark when the US proposed to have eggs imported from these countries amidst the bird flu outbreak and surging egg prices, South Korea and Turkey stepped in as a second option to deliver eggs, as reported by The Hill.

Only a few weeks ago, US officials confirmed that hundreds of millions of eggs are to be imported to help ease the rising prices caused by a severe bird flu outbreak. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made the announcement, stating that these imports would provide relief to the US egg market in the short term.