FT. WAYNE, Ind. — Sitting here at the bar/restaurant at the Ft. Wayne Hilton, a nice Midwest hotel located across the street from the gorgeous Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, I was forced to do something I don’t usually do. Watch CNN. Some rogue from hotel management decided to hold customers hostage to CNN that evening in this deeply Republican state.
Not that long ago, I frequently watched CNN. It was a reliable, respectable news outlet. Liberal but serious. But sadly, the unfortunate folks at CNN went full Trump Derangement Syndrome circa 2017. The network has never been the same. The bias is so bad and often so downright silly that — akin to reading the awful New York Times — you just shouldn’t bother, for the sake of your mental health.
And so it was that I lifted my head from my fine glass of red wine to glimpse the headline banner under the perky, pretty Erin Burnett. What did it say? It conveyed to CNN’s faithful an item of apparent great importance if not astonishment. I quote in full: “TRUMP VOWED TO BRING DOWN EGG PRICES, EGGS NOW AT RECORD HIGH.”
Well, hell’s bells! Good golly, Miss Molly (or Ms. Burnett). Donald Trump, ladies and gentlemen, had been president for a total of 16 days at that moment, and the price of eggs were not lower yet. Damn him! Now there’s a whopper of a failed promise!
To repeat: Donald J. Trump, president for two weeks, and egg prices had not fallen yet. Outrageous.
I was so stunned by the headline that I snapped a photo of the TV screen, cursed out loud (the waitress gave me a funny look), and texted a photo to friends and family.
Photo by Paul Kengor of CNN’s OutFront show airing on Feb. 5, 2025
But of course, my outrage was totally different from CNN’s. I was aghast at how this sophistry could serve as the evening headline for this once-respected news outlet. Consider the obvious:
Donald Trump was amidst a whirlwind of activity in his first couple of weeks as POTUS. A veritable human cyclone, Trump made FDR’s 100 Days seem like Sleepy Joe’s four years of nothing. I had just read about a surge of Americans enlisting in the military since Trump’s November electoral victory. It’s reportedly the highest spike in 15 years. Over at Fox News, they were hailing the sudden decrease in border crossings.
Those are two developments easily attributable to Donald Trump, as are the flurry of executive actions on everything from killing DEI to stopping the insanity of ugly biological men beating up girls in women’s sports. (RELATED: Trump’s Executive Order Ends ‘Trans’ Tyranny and Protects Females)
Those are things that Donald Trump can affect quickly. But to assume he could somehow immediately change the price of eggs is just stupid. Sure, perhaps that will also come to pass. But to expect such a reversal in two weeks is unrealistic, unfair, and idiotic. It ascribes to Donald Trump a divine-like power that liberals assumed was only discerned by the “Trump cult.”
Alas, I soon learned that this egg thing is a current talking point amongst progressives. The next day, I heard some maniac call into Andrew Wilkow’s show on Sirius XM Patriot Radio screaming about egg prices and denouncing Donald Trump as a cold-blooded liar. The poor fellow sounded deranged. He had his angry talking point. Just like CNN.
Now, that said, I would like the world to know that some people can control egg prices. In fact, I’d like to invite Ms. Burnett to my small family farm in Grove City, Penn. She could bring a camera crew. My wife and I have eight kids, a cat, rabbits, fish, turkeys, and 11 egg-laying chickens, a breed called Barred Plymouth Rocks. (FOR A VISUAL: Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving Memories)
These egg-layers have been prolific whilst cooped up this winter. Typically, you would expect about nine eggs per day from 11 chickens, but these gals are on fire. They’re dropping 10, 11 eggs per day. One day two weeks ago, when it hit 15 degrees below zero, the crazy hens left 14 eggs within 24 hours!
Imagine that, CNN. Now there’s a headline for you: “KENGOR FAMILY EGGS AT RECORD HIGH AND RECORD LOW PRICE.”
I can inform liberals nationwide that egg prices at the Kengor household are at a record low. We’re getting about six dozen per week for free (minus the cost of chicken feed). We give them away to friends.
If Ms. Burnett and her crew would like to hike up to western PA, I’ll treat each of them to a free carton of eggs. The invitation is open. No, my egg story will not satiate the rage of CNN’s anti-Trump nuts, but it’s much more inspiring and hopeful than the network’s silly headline.
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