Trump might have to ask foes like Trudeau for emergency eggs
Summary
The Trump administration faces a dilemma as skyrocketing egg prices due to bird flu have forced Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to consider emergency imports.
With eggs now averaging $8 per dozen (up from $2.25 last fall), Trump may need to request imports from countries he's recently antagonized—particularly Canada, the largest U.S. egg importer, which Trump has threatened with tariffs and annexation.
Other potential egg suppliers (Netherlands, UK, China) have also faced Trump's recent hostility through tariffs or threats.
Meanwhile, Turkey plans to export 420 million eggs to the U.S., but this represents less than 5% of monthly U.S. production.
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Trudeau should plan a meeting in Ottawa to sign the egg pact, then berate Trump's ill-fitting suit and say that Canada will slap a 100% export tariff on eggs to the US unless Trump hands over Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
He won't, because not even Trudeau is that big of an asshole.
I might just move to Canada if he does that.
Sure, we have a golden citizenship for 20 millions (CAD, makes it cheaper for you). You'll still be an immigrant tho, so expect our conservatives to tell you your DEI if you work and a parasite if you dont.
"Canada is holding the egg cards! You've never once thanked Canada for our eggs!"
Trudeau should provide eggs on these conditions:
Then send Trump the agreement for signature. Points #2 and #3 are obvious things to leave off a carton of eggs, until you tell Trump he can't have them, then they'll become a critical issue blocking his signature. Then go on Twitter and Truth Social and say "We have 2 billion eggs ready for you guys and Trump is refusing to let us send them" and let the shitstorm follow.
Also insist that Trump has never thanked Canada.
All the shells should be stamped with the maple leave.
I like it, then you could make a black market for eggs, and people could conspicuously post that they acquired the coveted eggs through illicit means.
We should make this an online thing even if it doesn’t happen. Imagine ai news popping up with stories of black market eggs from Canada!
A new market for Canadian Online Coopery?
I like it. Maybe mix in some vids by egg influencers on SM showing Canadians frying up some product and sitting down to big plates of omelettes. President Musk and Drumpf could be on TV in the background, red-faced and shrieking and fuming and Nazi-saluting, with the TV sound turned off of course, while the Canadians smile and have 2nds.
I was gonna suggest something more snide but yeah, just a friendly Canadian gesture would probably go further
Maybe add requirement that Ukrainian aid be increased over 2024 level too.
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Spoiled eggs from Turkey sounds like a great way to Make America Sick Again, LOL. Dear Canadians, Please post photos of your inexpensive eggs. Additionally, please post photos of all the items you use eggs to make. Fuck trump.
I actually do have a photo of Canadian eggs ($3.79 CAD is about $2.50 USD)
Where is that? Eggs $6 minimum in Victoria
It's probably pasteurised eggs. And it's probably not direct to consumer either. Lots of things have eggs in them and those eggs were probably bought in jugs or barrels rather than dozens.
I buy my eggs by the gallon.
I've seen Costco selling egg whites by the litre carton. Gallons wouldn't be farfetched for restaurant supply.
Most food is made in factories, not homes or restaurants. Kinda gross.
I mean, yeah. We buy our eggs from a local farm. It's pretty great, they deliver it straight to my partner's workplace every week or two. Most eggs are torture-eggs, and we won't buy the Costco egg whites on that basis. However, my point is that "eggs by the gallon" is not farfetched!
We kind of don’t need to post pictures— our grocery stores have their marked up prices on their website https://www.loblaws.ca/en/search?search-bar=eggs
Your website shows $17 for a thing of eggs and they’re out of stock.
30 eggs
Organic
About 10$ for the same thing if they're not organic
Math is hard.
That’s a 30 count though. And presumably in CAD. Still more expensive than the pic posted. (EDIT pic posted elsewhere in this thread.)
Uh, is that all it shows for you? There’s like at least 9 different available options for me
Dear Canada, as an American, please don't send us any eggs. 77M+ people here need to face the FO part of FAFO.
At about 1,4$US for a dozen, why don't you come visit instead?
Peanut fried fries, day fresh cheese curds, steaming thick chicken BBQ sauce with an over easy egg on top is worth the detour.
Been a couple times, would love to go again! Great food, nice people, great sights. Unfortunately, as a non-white person, leaving the States right now except for some permanent reason seems tenuous to me, and I've a family to consider.
Working on convincing everyone to move, but it's tricky with jobs and pets and extended family kids...but we'll see.
In the meantime, I've been buying eggs from local farmers directly for ~$5-$6 per dozen which is less than the store and half the time is basically a neighbor of mine.
Been trying to get a visa and properly become Canadian ever since visiting and falling in love.
In time...
Woah woah woah. Why the ever-loving fuck are they calling Trudeau a "foe"?! Are they just priming people to believe we're enemies now so that when the inevitable invasion comes they feel justified?!
Language matters and this is yet another disgusting betrayal.
Trudeau kinda is one of Trump's foes though, isn't he?
No. We're allies and good trading partners. If Trudeau is a "foe" then it's only because Trump is making unrealistic demands of submission or being crushed.
Trump's foe. Canada is the US's ally.
Trump's America's foe.
Are we? Really doesn’t feel like we’re allies these days
Trump’s voice is loud, bombastic, and belligerent, but rarely anchored in reality. There doesn’t seem to be any limits to how low he will go, but that doesn’t change realities like the worlds two largest trading partners, thousands of miles of unguarded border, a long history of cooperation and yes, friendship. Do what you have to to deal with Trumps BS and know that half the US will cheer you on and only hope you’ll give us the chance to make it up to you in four years
Exactly.
The US is no ally of Canada. The US is currently allied with Russia and North Korea.
I think I'm the only one who remembers when Trudeau and Trump and Nieto signed that NAFTA agreement and Trump screwed up by signing in the wrong place and Trudeau covered for him to save him embarrassment. A very classy move that went completely unnoticed by a classless thug.
That’s what allies do.
…Ugh.
Trump is much more a foe to the US than Trudeau ever would be
Which is why being Trump's foe ain't a bad thing.
The entire remaining free democratic world is Trump's foe now
More like Trump is their foe
Common sense is trump's foe... anyone with a lick of it is basically a sworn enemy
but not of the US. and trump represent the US. many people consume news by inferring from headlines. and a headline like this one reads the canada is a foe of the us
melania and trumps daughter doesnt seem to think so.
Trump might need to ask his Canadian neighbour Trudeau for emergency eggs.
Not we, the Daily Beast is one overly dramatic headline away from a tabloid.
Krasnov Trump's foe due to threatening Trudeau with invasion,
Canada is not US foe.
Of course Trudeau is a foe to Trump. Trudeau is still part of the free world and has not succumbed to the new Russian Empire.
I wish Trump what he deserves.
I wish his supporters everything they voted for
$50 eggs. I recognize so many citizens actually support these moves. This is a relatively harmless way to draw attention to more of these bad decisions.
By all means, let the price of eggs skyrocket. It’s the least harmless of what we collectively voted for.
The problem is, there is no way for only his supporters to feel the pain.
If i was Canada leadership I would give eggs for 50% mineral rights and demand he say thank you and repeat he has no eggs over and over again.
One of the oldest addages: Don't put all your eggs in one basket
The US is facing rising egg costs because their chicken farms are absolutely massive and susceptible to disease. Ironically a larget network of small farms results in stable prices.
This is a metaphor for all of capitalism.
Well said!
Oof.
Or oeuf, as we sometimes say in Canada.
Un oeuf, deux zeux.
i hope they all tell america to fuck right off. start selling that shit to countries that deserve it
Why? Sell that shit at a premium. Like sell every dozen at exactly 99 cents below the average price. If the capitalist oligarchy doesn't exploit this moment for all it's worth what are they even good for?
the united states needs to suffer lest this festering fascism fall into complete dictatorship.
the average people must suffer in order to wrest the reigns of democracy from the oligarchs hands.
Yeah so make them suffer and profit off their suffering.
It’s what America knows best
if anyone can pull off highway robbery like that its canadian grocery cartels. I'm sure they'd love to get in on the price-fixing.
I hope Canada puts a 100% tariff on eggs to the USA, get those egg prices up to $1.50 per egg.
Export tariffs are a thing and Canada could implement them on eggs to make sure US shortages and price hikes don't spread to Canada. Would that push prices to 1.50 per egg? No, but it would stop Canadian egg exports from helping US pricing at the expense of Canadian pricing.
“Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”
-Professor Faber, Fahrenheit 451
Export duties.
No one was even mean about you being wrong, were they? I see one polite/neutral correction with backing information and some downvotes.
Downvotes are just numbers. Chill out, man, you're good 😅
I can vaguely remember what eggs used to cost
If trump keep “creating history” for another 50 days like he has been doing for the first 50 days so far, I surely wont remember what an egg look like.
Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.
Years ago, when Donald Trump was still just a reality TV star, I went to a conference in the US and talked for quite a bit of time with someone from Germany, who had grown up in East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell. He said that in his childhood, all the TV news and print media were filled with State propaganda. Nobody believed it. But everyone said they did, to avoid unwanted government scrutiny.
He remarked that the media in the US sounded very similar to the media that used to be in East Germany. And not just Fox News (the Conservative darling at the time). All the US media resembled the media in East Germany back in the day, to some extent. But he was very surprised to realize that Americans believed the media, as long as it agreed to their pre-conceived political beliefs. (And, worse yet, didn't believe the media that offered opposing viewpoints out of hand). Here we had the freedom to believe whatever we wanted, and we let ourselves get brainwashed.
Things have only gotten worse since Americans started getting their news online, from self-selected social media influencers.
Thanks for sharing this experience.
One mistake of East Germany (and Russia and China) was that their basic education is not that bad so people are able to figure out things don’t add up. America might be immune to this issue as it’s advancing to authoritarian.
Plus there are ultra rich class to assist and fine tune the brainwash technology to micro targeting each individual ( the “self selected“ influencers are not selected by yourself after all)
Yeah, the fascists learned their lesson and started dismantling our education system in the 70s.
Probably a bunch of the Nazis we imported into the US to help with the space program. They learned the system here, and used it to their advantage.
This is true, but I have to nitpick this a little bit. Here in America everyone is constantly bombarded from all sides, every minute of every day, with constant propaganda of all types. People have to choose what to believe now because any story will have at least three conflicting accounts of it being told. There is no reliable source of truth. There are no reliable fact checkers. There are no laws enforced about truth in reporting.
I think this more than anything led to the problems that we have now.
Zelensky should have brought a carton of eggs to the oval office.
That would be such a power move.
Checkmate America.
What an odd way to signify 36 eggs
. "Twin cartons of two less a score m'lud" is what the egg valet relayed to me.
It's two cartons of eggs, each container is a dozen and a half. Eggs are normally in units of a dozen so keeping that as a consistent unit across multiple brands and styles makes sense. Costco normally indicates how many things are packaged together more than the overall total. It's useful to know the format.
If it was on tray of 36 eggs the would have used 3 dozen and the indicator to keep it consistent with the standard unit of eggs.
Americans cant do math.
You're telling me a 1/3lb burger is bigger than a 1/4lb??
/s
the best thing for the world right now would be for america to suffer the consequences of its poor decisions. the beatings must continue until we start making better decisions.
What if we take our remaining eggs and force feed them to trump until he explodes. I would be willing to sacrifice my eggs for that
I'm thinking how he gets his protein has something to do with how putin controls him.
What the fuck even is 2025 though
Americas fall into full blown fascism.
“We MUST invade Canada. Not for the oil, not for the water, not for the minerals, steel or aluminum, but for the eggs! Get America cracking again!”
"JK, no eggs for Nazis!"
Trudeau would be within his rights to tell him to suck off
Or "suck an egg" if you will.
Psalm 69
Fuck em. I like inexpensive eggs and it's not like they would send us shit if the shoe were on the other foot. Besides, we have a supply system and would effectively be subsidizing US exports with higher prices. So double fuck em.
Also... You don't really need eggs. It's not water or medicine or anything like that, they just need chicken periods because they nood something to gobble down beacon
What a fucking Jackass
most famines are manmade, exacerbated by a hostile or mismanaged government
I hope Trudeau tells him to pound sand.
I dont think USA will be getting eggs because Doug Ford just threatened to cut power that we we supply to the US due to the tariffs going into effect tomorrow.
I didn't support him. I am almost having an aneurysm every day from the lies and deceit that happen. Its going to suck for me and my family when we get the shitty end of the stick from all of this. HOWEVER, not only do I not blame any people or reps who would stand up to the cheeto mussolini but I encourage it. The only way the people who voted him in will learn is from how much it hurts.
I fear our country has fallen and will not be able to come back from it but I still have hope from our true allies.
Why doesn't the US just produce more eggs? Hell Trump could even strong arm the existing egg cartel and throw them in jail and nationalize egg production so that it's more resilient (this isn't a complicated concept, it's only not done because it cost more money). If you are going to be a fascist, at least feed your people.
He’ll tariff the chickens, send the roosters to gitmo, and let Elon cut all funding to farming communities until they comply.
We could just try not eating any, or at least not so many.
The egg thing is really strange to me. Are people eating a few eggs every single day? I usually buy an 18 count every few weeks at most.
I understand that eggs are used in a significant amount of products that aren't just raw eggs, but the people complaining so loudly are probably not the businesses that use them.
The direct issue is the price on the shelf. People see it and get angry, but it raises the cost of a significant number of products in the store.
The other problem I see is that eggs are $8 a dozen and the shelves are FULL. That's not a shortage driving the price-up scenario. That's farmers doing a money grab.
If your self is mostly empty and their high priced, it's super legit. If there's no shortage week after week and the prices are 2x-3x it's shenanigans.
You can have a full shelf with expensive eggs and be legit.
Their flocks are being decimated by H15N which is messing around with prices.
Prices go up, people refuse to pay for said prices, so they sit on shelves.
They could sell the eggs for less, but maybe its not profitable to do so, in which case, they are fucked, because they gotta sell them for a loss or not sell them at all.
All that being said - those greedy motherfuckers are probably raising the prices beyond the losses incurred by H15N to try and exploit everyone.
No. The cost of those eggs did not go up 4x. If your flock is decimated you do not have eggs to sell you are busy breeding.
A chick costs about 4 bucks, They make a profit the first week after they hit regular breeding cycle. It doesn't work out as well for home gamers but at scale...
If you have eggs you can have chickens.
The price of meat didn't go up 4x, meat is more directly impacted by loss of flock.
We're seeing price collusion. It's an opportunity to make four times their normal income.
Haven't had one in 20 years tbh...
Stuff that. We should all say "No" and make him go to his handlers in Russia for eggs.
I'm lucky enough to live in a place with a lot of local, organic eggs. $4/dozen at my grocery store
Yeah, I never thought I'd be happy to live in an area where chickens vastly outnumber people.
Eggs.
Eggs.
Eggs.
If I keep posting this every time there are egg related political news stories, maybe it'll come true?
I put together a little short story about how I would like to see Donald Trump meet his demise. Drowning in eggs:
The Eggsecution.
The once-proud leader, now stripped of title and dignity, stands in the center of the barren, concrete abyss. The abandoned Olympic swimming pool—thirty feet deep, dry as bone—has become their final stage. Above, the gathered masses stretch in every direction, a writhing sea of anticipation.
They do not jeer. They do not boo.
They simply chant.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
It starts as a murmur, a low thrum of human voices vibrating in unison. Then it grows, swelling into a deafening roar that rattles windows, that shudders in the bones of every person present. A chant as ancient as it is absurd, a single-minded invocation of punishment.
The first egg arcs high overhead, tracing a lazy curve before splattering against the fallen leader’s shoulder. The yolk bursts, oozing down his baggy, ugly, now-useless suit. A streak of yellow, the first of many.
Another egg. Then another.
Then dozens.
The first impacts make them flinch, stagger—hands raised in a futile shield. But soon there are too many to dodge, too many to deflect. They curl inward as the sky rains viscous judgment. The chant never stops.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
Shells crack. Yolk drips. The scent of sulfur and shame thickens in the stagnant air. It coats their skin, their hair, their pride, turning them into something less than human. Something… egg-like.
At the top of the pit, a child—no older than seven—steps forward. They hold their egg with both hands, cradling it like something precious. Reverent. With a deliberate motion, they lob it downward. It strikes the leader square on the forehead, exploding with an almost musical plap. The crowd erupts into a fresh crescendo of cheers, but the chant never falters.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
No escape. No reprieve. The pit is smooth concrete, slick now with raw egg and humiliation. They can do nothing but stand there, endure, become part of the ritual.
Somewhere in the throng, a vendor hawks boiled eggs. Another sells cartons to the unprepared. A man in a chicken suit waves encouragingly at the crowd.
The night wears on, but the spectacle does not end.
It cannot end.
Not until the last egg is thrown. Not until the last voice is hoarse.
Not until the world is rid of this one, failed leader, broken not by swords or exile, but by the inescapable weight of public yolk and scorn.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
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Does anyone know what's happening to the tariffs ?
The White House said they weren't coming, then Trump got mad and said they definitely were, now the White House is saying they don't konw it's up to Trump.
Literally no one. Not even the fuck-wit-in-chief has any idea at this moment.
they're waiting on orders fron putin
Oh cool, tarrif eggs... That will most certainly drive the costs down!
Or we could have leftover pizza for breakfast
What shape is Russia’s egg industry in?
Ovoid, I presume.
https://www.superc.ca/allees/produits-laitiers-et-oeufs/oeufs
Step down, and sure..
Out of chicks at the local farm stores too.
8$?! lol, wtf.
Let me interject a little hope into all the eggpocalypse doom and gloom ……. This morning I went to an excellent diner I’d never been to. The menu advertised $1.39/each to add additional eggs to a breakfast but that was the cooked and served price!!!!
This was one of those situations where even new tipping rules are insufficient. I had great food and fantastic service at excellent prices! What put me over the top is they only suggested 15% tip, like the old days. I’d never left 30% before but this was well deserved
If this temporary rise in egg prices is the leverage Canada has on the US then Canada is in a bad spot.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
This document outlines many of Trumps talking points and actions, enough so that I believe it is Trumps plan, and I don't think these tariff are going away.
When you've built up over 100% of government federal/provincial debt on the back of unfettered access to the US market you're entirely at their whims, and as 80% of exports go to the US Canada is about to get a massive hike in inflation as its FX falls off a cliff, causing a shock to one of the largest housing bubbles on the planet, causing the money supply to contract, which will cause stagflation.
Which is when the US will politely ask for Canada to become part of the US, when we are in a deep depression as we scramble to perform austerity as people are losing their jobs. Considering this happens next week it could be insane to watch, and I am unlucky enough to have a front row seat.
Canada has a lot more leverage than eggs.
The US is much better prepped to withstand the storm but he's not going to be able to exacerbate America's cost of living crisis indefinitely and it isn't just tariffs on Canada that will be driving that.
If he puts tariffs in then it means less USD available globally, which will increase the value of the dollar to offset the cost imposed by the tariffs, would it not?
He then uses the funds to cut corporate taxes, which will decrease goods prices lowering the CPI basket.
I'd say not being ruled by a babyllionaire nazi that bankrupt casinos and not having 2/3 of our population being under-educated lazy-ass losers is our main advantage over US right now.
Education is great if you're paid for it. We also aren't any more productive, we have like half the investment per worked than the US.
We also destroy the poor here via the housing crisis.
Education is great and free in Quebec, not sure about the roc.
Wages are still lower on median.
The subject is education....