Talk about having egg on your face. In an article published Tuesday on their website, CNN decided to make a badly-cooked omelette out of itself by admitting President Donald Trump was actually on to something about falling egg prices, but still attempted to say he was still peddling “fiction.” CNN Business Executive Editor David Goldman just couldn't bring himself to fully admit that Trump was right and wrote an oxymoronic headline that reeked of contradiction, “Trump’s egg price fiction has suddenly become reality.”
CNN’s Facebook post of Goldman’s story was just as insane: “For months, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that egg prices are tumbling. It wasn’t true then, but it’s true now.” Yeah, we couldn’t make sense of that logic either. 
Retail egg prices were determined to have fallen a whopping 12.4 percent in April, according to the Labor Department’s latest report on consumer prices. This is after CNN repeatedly made Trump out to be a complete liar from March to April for his on-character embellishment of falling wholesale egg prices as a result of his policies, which according to PolitiFact, April 4 had fallen 63 percent from their February 21 peak. Not exactly the 93 percent figure Trump touted but still massive. CNN was one of a litany of outlets that zeroed in on the fact that wholesale prices doesn’t necessarily translate to retail prices.
But now that retail egg prices seem to be following suit at a significant clip, how in the world is Goldman's reporting even real? This is the equivalent of saying, “Yeah, so the lies Trump told eventually turned out to be kind of true but he was still lying.”
His lede paragraph emphasized this line of reasoning: “For months, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that egg prices are tumbling. It wasn’t true then, but it’s true now.”
Aristotle is rolling over in his grave.
Goldman admitted that the 12.4 percent drop in retail egg prices was “the biggest monthly decline since” 1984. Even more, conceded Goldman, “And they could continue to fall this month, too: The USDA reported last week that a dozen large white-shell eggs now cost $3.30 on average, down a whopping 69 cents from a week before.” Goldman called it a “remarkable reversal after egg prices surged in each of the past five months – and 17 of the past 19 months – because of a deadly avian flu epidemic that necessitated the mass culling of egg-laying hens.”
So what’s with still calling Trump’s falling egg prices assertion a “fiction” Goldman? What’s your stew beef?
“Well before last month’s decline, Trump had been touting falling egg prices as a sign that his administration’s plan to lower prices for consumers has been working,” complained Goldman, who proceeded to once again whip out Trump’s off-the-cuff 93 percent embellishment as a cudgel, which in itself was clearly a reference to wholesale figures that did in fact fall by over half (50 percent).
Even Goldman concluded that “[i]t appears as though Trump may have been talking about wholesale prices, which had been tumbling throughout March before normalizing in recent weeks." "Nevertheless, wholesale prices fell by half – not close to the 90%+ figures Trump was citing,” Goldman barked.
Wow, so distributors are only paying just 50 percent less for wholesale eggs as opposed to the 93 percent figure Trump touted. Oh you got 'em now Goldman (sarcasm)!
But Goldman wouldn’t let up and doubled down on his oxymoron, “So Trump’s claim that consumer egg prices are down is finally true – even if the timing of his claim and the wild percentages he threw around were grossly inaccurate.”
Huh?
Newsflash Goldman: Trump was saying egg prices were falling as recently as the end of April. Trump told ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran in an April 29 interview, “Egg prices are down,” which the latest numbers indicate he was absolutely right with a 12.4 percent decline in April that represented the biggest decrease in decades, and represents the cumulative effect over weeks of prices going down.
In essence, CNN is telling you they got it wrong without admitting they got it wrong.
