President Donald Trump was slapped with a fact-check after claiming that prices for Thanksgiving dinner were substantially lower this year.
The president posted Thursday morning on Truth Social that this year's holiday meal would be 25 percent lower than last year, under then-President Joe Biden, as his approval rating sags to its lowest depths ever under the weight of his handling of the economy, which remains the most important issue to 47 percent of Americans.
"2025 Thanksgiving dinner under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart," Trump posted. "My cost are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas! So the Democrats 'affordability' issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!"
An official White House account, Rapid Response 47, posted on its X account a screenshot of an earlier Truth Social post making similar claims.
"Walmart just announced that prices for Thanksgiving Dinner is now down 25% since under Sleepy/Crooked Joe Biden, in 2024," Trump posted Wednesday evening. "AFFORDABILITY is a Republican Stronghold. Hopefully, Republicans will use this irrefutable fact!"
However, the Rapid Response 47 post was refuted with a community note adding what fact checkers described as "missing context."
"The 2025 Walmart Thanksgiving meal contains 15 items while the 2024 meal contained 21 items," fact checkers said. "Additionally, most of the brand name items in the 2024 meal were replaced with Great Value items."
The community note linked to a pair of posts on Walmart's corporate website showing that prices for a sample Thanksgiving meal in 2024 for eight people worked out to $7 per person, with 21 menu items listed (although the store claimed 29 items were used), while a sample meal for 10 people in 2025 came out to under $4.00 per person with 15 items on the menu.
"The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving," noted Ron Filipkowski, a former federal prosecutor.
