Voters who were grouchy about rising grocery prices during President Joe Biden’s administration should be throw-the-bums-out outraged about grocery inflation now, because (a) it’s worse, and (b) the Bum-in-Chief (and the chickenly bums who don’t assert their Constitutional power to stop him) is directly causing this worse inflation:
Food inflation has been growing since the COVID-19 pandemic, which shocked supply chains, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which affected oil prices, in early 2022. After a massive uptick, food inflation began to ease during the last two years of the Biden administration.
Between January 2023 and December 2024, “food at home” prices — grocery prices, essentially — on the Consumer Price Index increased 2.68%.
Since Trump regained office in January 2025, food inflation has increased 3.16%.
…Part of the reason for higher food prices is the war Trump started with Iran, which predictably closed the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil shipping route. The war has led to high gas prices across the country, and food prices have followed suit [Sky Chadde, “Food Prices Just Had Their Highest Month-to-Month Jump in Years,” Investigate Midwest, 2026.05.19].
President Joe Biden just had to navigate grocery inflation caused by factors outside of his control. Donald Trump is enacting policies that directly your grocery bill.
Creighton University’s Ernie Goss has been warning that the Trump Organization is bad for American agriculture and follows the economies of several breadbasket states including South Dakota’s — one of the slowest growing in the US.
Almost 57% of rural banksters are freaking out because the Rural Mainstreet Index fell to 45.7 in May from 47.9 in April and three quarters of them recommend no change to Federal Reserve interest rates. Farm equipment sales dropped to 18.2 marking the 33rd straight month below growth neutral or 50.0.
https://www.creighton.edu/economicoutlook/mainstreeteconomy