Trump boasted that the White House Easter Egg Roll this year will feature 30,000 real eggs.
Which brings up the biggest broken promise in the history of politics.
Last August, then-candidate Trump stood beside a table stacked with groceries: cereal, bacon, fruit, butter, bread and – yes, eggs.
“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.”
The price of a dozen eggs then was $3.20.
Last month, the average price of a dozen eggs was the highest ever: $6.23 per dozen.
And Trump’s tariffs are just starting to hit grocery shelves.
Trump’s superpower is creating chaff, the political equivalent of the small strips of metal that military planes use to distract enemy radar.
We get distracted by endless outrages: unlawfully deporting people, defying courts, taking over Greenland, alienating allies, attacking law firms, attacking universities, gutting medical research, firing vital federal workers, cozying up to dictators, on and on.
For sure, outrage is justified.
But all that distracts from his biggest political vulnerability, the biggest reason he won and his biggest promise – which he broke.
Don’t chase the chaff. Stay on target.
If we do, the old rhyme will prove true:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again.
