David Frum

I don't pretend this is an exhaustive summary.

Here he is on October 21.

Grocery prices are way down.

Here he is on October 16th.

Groceries are down.

Here he is on October 14th.

Now, as you know, groceries are down.

October 10th, we've gotten prices way down for groceries at the United Nations on September 23rd.

Under my leadership, grocery prices are down.

I'm sure there are many other instances.

On January 13th, President Trump addressed the Detroit Economic Club, and there he spoke from a script.

So there was a little bit more effort to make the words not a complete lie.

And his quote on January 13th was, grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down.

Now, grocery prices are up, up, up.

Data released in the week that I record this program by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found the cost of food at home rose 2.4% overall in the 12 months of 2025 and 0.7% in December alone, the fastest single month increase since October of 2022.

and the rise in food prices stands out because many other prices are ceasing to go up so fast gasoline rent other similar prices that the the worst of the inflation for them seems to have at least taken a little pause in december but grocery prices continue to grow and many individual food items are up astonishingly high the price of beef up 16.4 percent the price of coffee almost 20 percent price of lettuce other fresh produce the price of frozen fish again up and

The one exception to all this is the one price that the Trump people love to talk about, and that is the price of eggs.

Those are down.

But across the board, grocery prices are way up.

And this is not, as it was under Biden, just a product of a general price inflation affecting the whole world.