{"id":26609,"date":"2026-01-15T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/trumps-ag-secretary-sparks-mockery-with-tone-deaf-3-dinner-advice-as-food-costs-soar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:58:00","slug":"trumps-ag-secretary-sparks-mockery-with-tone-deaf-3-dinner-advice-as-food-costs-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/trumps-ag-secretary-sparks-mockery-with-tone-deaf-3-dinner-advice-as-food-costs-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s AG secretary sparks mockery with tone-deaf $3 dinner advice as food costs soar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Agriculture Secretary is being mocked after suggesting a bizarre $3 dinner Americans could consume.<\/p>\n

Brooke Rollinsargued that even with the new inverted food pyramid – which the White House<\/a>introduced last week and prioritizes more protein, vegetables and fruit – there are meals that are affordable.<\/p>\n

Meat, fresh vegetables and fruits generally cost more than processed foods.<\/p>\n

‘We’ve run over 1,000 simulations,’ she said on NewsNation on Wednesday.<\/a> ‘It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing.’<\/p>\n

‘So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money,’ Rollins argued.<\/p>\n

The latest Consumer Price Index<\/a> found that the cost of groceries increased by .7 percent in December.<\/p>\n

The White House has maintained that food costs are going down, with Rollins showing off a chart to the press Wednesday in the Oval Office that was labeled ‘Trump’s making healthy food affordable.’<\/p>\n

Online commenters were quick to ridicule Rollins’ comments, with some even using AI<\/a>to create images of what the paltry dinner would look like.<\/p>\n

Democratic Representative Ted Lieu used a single M&M to represent Rollins’ ‘one other thing.’<\/p>\n

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was mocked for suggesting a bizarre $3 meal Americans could eat for dinner. In the Oval Office on Wednesday, she showed off a chart that claimed ‘Trump’s making healthy food affordable’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee posted a visual of what Rollins’ $3 dinner would look like and labeled it ‘MAHA!’ – Make America Healthy Again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Democrats of the House Ways and Means Committee used a school lunch tray, with a tin-foil wrapped ‘mystery item.’<\/p>\n

‘MAHA!’ – the acronym for ‘Make America Healthy Again’ – the Ways and Means Democrats labeled the meal. <\/p>\n

Progressive activistJordan Uhl shared the image of the meal served atFyre Festival, the luxury music festival that went off the rails.<\/p>\n

‘One whole tortilla?!’ Democratic strategist Jennifer Holdsworth commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other online commenters called the meal ‘dystopian.’<\/p>\n

It called back to a time when President Jimmy Carter put on a sweater and turned down the heat at the White House, asking Americans to conserve to deal with an energy crisis.<\/p>\n

But Trump has pushed the idea that Americans are living through a ‘golden age.’<\/p>\n

‘In Trump’s America you all get 1 piece of chicken, 1 piece of broccoli, 1 corn tortilla, 1 doll and maybe 1 or 2 pencils. Golden Age!’ the anti-Trump group, the Lincoln Project, posted to X.<\/p>\n

Trump had previously suggested American consumers could buy fewer dolls and pencils to offset the cost of his tariffs.<\/p>\n

‘Private jets and tax breaks for them and their rich friends, and one piece of broccoli *AND* a tortilla for you!’ wrote Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who served under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

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Democratic Representative Ted Lieu shared an image of the meal, with a single M&M representing Rollins’ ‘one other thing’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Progressive activist Jordan Uhl compared Rollins’ suggestion for a $3 meal to the meals served at the trainwreck Fyre Festival<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Trump has bristled at criticism that he hasn’t done enough to tackle affordability, which many Americans said was the top reason they voted him back into office in 2024.<\/p>\n

The average home-cooked meal costs around $4.31 per person, with a restaurant meal’s cost much more pronounced, at $20,37 per meal, according to the USDA Economic Research Service’s 2026 food price outlook. <\/p>\n

Last year, Democrats were able to use the issue to win several off-year and special elections, including governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Democrats are hoping to expand those gains to take back the House of Representatives in this year’s midterms.<\/p>\n

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was among those pressing Trump to take his economic message on the road to give Republicans a midterm boost.<\/p>\n

In December, Trump made stops in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and this week he headed to Michigan.<\/p>\n

The trip to Pennsylvania garnered headlines<\/a> for Trump’s harsh words against his political enemies, as he mocked Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar for wearing a ‘little turban’ and called former President Joe Biden, who was born in nearby Scranton, a ‘sleepy son of a b****.’<\/p>\n

His economic speech in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, before Christmas took a turn when the president started recounting the August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, which segued into a description of his wife’s underwear drawer.<\/p>\n

And Tuesday’s economic speech in Michigan was made memorable by Trump giving the finger to an autoworker who called the president a ‘pedophile protector.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Agriculture Secretary is being mocked after suggesting a bizarre $3 dinner Americans could consume. Brooke Rollinsargued that even with the new inverted food pyramid – which the White Houseintroduced last week and prioritizes more protein, vegetables and fruit – there are meals that are affordable. Meat, fresh vegetables and fruits generally cost more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}