Thanksgiving dinner costs WAY up since Biden took office, but media offers this gaslighting spin

President Joe Biden participated in the annual ceremonial pardon of the White House turkeys but his policies have taken a meat axe to Americans’ Thanksgiving spending power since he took office.

On a sunny Monday in the nation’s capital, the outgoing 82-year-old spared the lives of Peach and Blossom, a pair of 17-week-old birds from Minnesota, joking “They tell me there’s 2,500 people here today… looking for a pardon,” to the delight of the crowd that gathered at the White House for the festive occasion.

While the turkeys will live to enjoy more Thanksgivings to come, Americans looking to put food on the table were once again squeezed with the food inflation from nearly four years of “Bidenomics” eating into family dinner budgets with the average cost for the Turkey Day feast way up since President-elect Donald J. Trump’s first term.

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Thanksgiving snapshot, the cost of an average dinner for 10 with such traditional dishes as turkey, stuffing, cranberries, rolls, and sweet potatoes clocking in at $58.08 or about $5.80 per person.

In 2024, a 16-pound turkey will set a family back $25.67, a dozen dinner rolls are $4.16 and a 30 oz can of pumpkin pie filling is $4.15.

The price is down from both last year and off the record high of $64.06 in 2022 but as the Farm Bureau points out, “a Thanksgiving meal is still 19% higher than it was in 2019,” when Trump was in office and the 10 dinner items went for $48.91.

The media gaslighting didn’t take a break for the holidays with the same outlets that insisted Biden wasn’t senile for the last four years touting the great news that Thanksgiving is affordable again.

“You may not know it by looking at sticker prices in grocery aisles, but Thanksgiving dinner is more affordable than it has been in years,” crowed NBC News in yet another example of the out-of-touch elites lecturing the little people about now understanding how great the economy really is.

X users reacted by telling the gaslighters where to stuff it.

“We should all be thankful that we live in a country with such an abundant food supply,” AFBF President Zippy Duvall said. “We are seeing modest improvements in the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for a second year, but America’s families, including farm families, are still being hurt by high inflation.”

Chris Donaldson

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