Newsom Skewers Trump Over Sky-High Beef Prices

California Governor Gavin Newsom has mocked Donald Trump over the president’s promise to “immediately” lower food costs once back in the White House.

Overall, beef and veal prices were 11.3% higher in July 2025 than in July 2024 under the Biden administration.

Newsom reminded Trump of his campaign pledge to tackle rising food prices after the president was pressed about record-high beef costs, Ewan Palmer reported for The Daily Beast.

Trump said Sunday that prices would decline “once our policies kick in,” adding, “The price of beef will be going down, just like the price of eggs went down, and the price of a lot of other grocery items went down. Beef will go down. It’ll all go down.”

Newsom, who has increasingly mocked the president, shared a clip of Trump making the same pledge during the 2024 campaign.

“This aged well,” Newsom posted on X, alongside Trump’s August 2024 remarks at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort.

The Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service reported that the average cost of ground beef in July 2025 reached $6.25 per pound, surpassing the June record of $6.12—which itself marked the first time prices ever topped $6.

Overall, beef and veal prices were 11.3% higher in July 2025 than in July 2024 under the Biden administration. The USDA projects beef prices could rise another 9.9% before the end of 2025.

The surge is attributed to several factors, including droughts in the U.S. and a screwworm outbreak in Mexico that has reduced cattle herds, as well as Trump’s sweeping 50% tariff on Brazilian goods—including beef—which took effect in August.

Newsom also mocked Trump’s record on other grocery items he promised would come “way down” in a separate Sunday post on X: “Those ‘groceries’ Trump says he won on:– Eggs: UP– Chicken: UP– Orange juice: UP– Bacon: UP– Bread: UP– Coffee: UP Great work, Donald Trump.”