President Donald Trump keeps saying beef is the only grocery product that has gotten more expensive during his second presidency.
“Groceries are down except for the beef, which I’ll get down too,” he said in a speech last week in Tokyo. “Groceries are way down, other than beef,” he said in a Fox News interview on Wednesday. “(Grocery prices) went up under Biden. Right now, they’re going down. Other than beef, which we’re working on, which we can solve very quickly,” he said in a CBS interview taped last week. “We have much lower prices than (Democrats) do, and we only have one thing, beef,” he said at the White House on Thursday.
Trump’s claim that grocery prices are down is wrong. And so is his claim that beef is the only grocery product that has increased in price.
Grocery prices are up, not down. Grocery prices have increased during Trump’s second term. Average US grocery prices in September were 1.4% higher than they were in January, the month he returned to office, and 2.7% higher than they were in September 2024 under former President Joe Biden, Consumer Price Index figures show. The 0.6% increase in average grocery prices from July 2025 to August 2025 was the biggest month-to-month jump in three years, and it was followed by a 0.3% increase from August to September.
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