Trump touts drop in egg prices at White House Easter event

Published April 6, 2026 12:28pm ET



President Donald Trump championed a drop in egg prices as he addressed a full crowd on the South Lawn Monday for the annual White House Easter egg roll.

“The price was so high, it was four times higher than it was a year before,” Trump said as he brought up last year’s jump in prices and how he enlisted Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s help to bring them down.

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