I just did that yesterday – but I didn't buy any, because the price seems to have almost doubled to – according to my informal survey – about $12 on the low end for a small, not-prime-cut steak that cost around $8 a few months ago.  The decent-size ribeyes were $16 and up each. Some were over $20.

Trump – in his usual low-rent way – promises that beef will be more affordable soon because he has approved the tariff-free importation of "300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings" from undisclosed sources. These "trimmings" – meaning, probably, the parts and pieces left on the floor of the slaughterhouse that they sweep up – will have to be sold 25 percent below current market prices for the next 90 days. That's three whole months! It all ends just in time for the mid-terms, too.

Curiously, Trump's official proclamation is headlined: President Donald J. Trump Further Ensures Affordable Beef for the American Consumer.

"Affordable"? Hasn't Trump been arguing that there is no "affordability" problem? That it is all a hoax and Democrat talking points, like the Epstein Stuff? Someone call Humpty Dumpty, who was the first to elaborate the doctrine that "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."

Nor anything at all.

Humpty Trumpty's proclamation goes on:

"Since returning to office, President Trump has moved swiftly to restore affordability, fight to reverse the Biden Administration's inflation crisis, and strengthen America's farmers, ranchers, and food supply."