President Trump believes he has dropped prices since he took office after Biden. He doesn’t believe in inflation and is gaslighting you as you shop at your local grocery store. The Trump Administration is relying on new data from a recent Doordash report that stated a decrease in breakfast staples of 14% between March and September. That report omits items such as coffee, bread, bacon, and orange juice (which is specifically up 7% from last year.) Any reasonable individual would realize that cherry picking data leads to false conclusions and any such statement from the Trump Administration would be false at best.

Here is a list of major inflation winners since Trump took office: Coffee is up 19%, Bananas up 7%, ground beef up13% and cakes and cupcakes are up 6%! That is going to take more than $2.00 to fix. Ouch, my pocketbook is feeling the pressure!

Since Doordash is a leader in breakfast cost items, they are claiming those items are down 1.7% over the course of 12 months ending in September 2025. Yet, in the last year, grocery prices have been increasing. For example, alcoholic beverages are up 5.3%, meats, poultry, and fish are up 5.2%, cereals and bakery products are up 1.6%, and fruits and vegetables are up 1.3%. Overall, the consumer price index shows grocery prices are up since January 2022, so if you are feeling the squeeze, you are NOT crazy! Food is now more expensive, and Daddy Donald continues to lie to you probably having never been to a Food Lion in his entire life.

1. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/news.htm#

2. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/latest-numbers.htm

3. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

Dispatch RELEASE — November 15th, 2025 — Joan Archer