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Walmart Holiday Meal Basket Is Sadder Than Ever as Trump Tanks Economy\u00a9\u00a0Charles-McClintock Wilson\/NurPhoto\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A year ago, President Donald Trump lied to Americans about how much Thanksgiving Dinner would cost them\u2014now, the prices have only gotten worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last holiday season, Trump plugged Walmart\u2019s yearly Holiday Meal promotion as proof he\u2019d beaten the Democrats on low prices. Spoiler alert: that wasn\u2019t true at all.<\/a> Fast forward a year, and Walmart has unveiled its newest holiday promotion, which offers a new snapshot of Trump\u2019s crumbling economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walmart\u2019s newly-unveiled 2026 Holiday Meal<\/a> contains 17 products, and can feed a crowd of 10 for a record-low price of $3.50 per person. Walmart claims<\/a> that this year, shoppers will receive 18 percent more items than last year\u2019s basket, and a 12 percent lower price for the same items compared with last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A quick trip to Walmart\u2019s website, however, reveals that the price of the company\u2019s Holiday Meal has decreased by swapping the items for cheaper options, and foregoing cooking and holiday staples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this year\u2019s basket has more products than the 2025 Holiday Meal<\/a>, which contained only 15 products and boasted feeding 10 people for less than $4 per person, the newer iteration scraps carrots and macaroni and cheese, adding corn muffin mix, sweet potatoes, mini marshmallows, and whipped topping instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These changes can\u2019t hide the fact that the items from last year\u2019s basket have only gotten more expensive. A year ago, the items included in Walmart\u2019s 2025 Holiday Meal Basket cost a total of $35.51. Now, they cost a total of roughly $39.72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By comparison, the company\u2019s original Holiday Meal<\/a>, launched in 2024 included 29 items, and served eight people for less than $7 per person. The items in that holiday basket now cost roughly $63.45, increasing drastically from the $55 price tag at its debut. The 2026 basket does not include certain items from the original, including onions, carrots, celery, seasoning, pecan pie, or cranberry sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increasing prices are a direct result of spiking energy prices from Trump\u2019s war against Iran, as well as his disastrous tariff policies. As of October 2026, the estimated year-over-year headline inflation rate has risen to four percent<\/a>. The producer price index rose 0.3 percent<\/a> in October, putting the annual rate at 6.5 percent, the highest rate in four years. Policymakers are beginning to worry that inflation is so widespread that it\u2019s even starting to affect categories that are not driven by oil prices or tariffs, CNBC<\/a> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, Americans have no illusions about how Trump\u2019s policies have affected prices. Last week, voters issued a stunning rebuke of Republican leadership by flipping both the House and Senate blue in the midterm elections. American voters continue to be interested in affordability. At Walmart, they might get it, but with Trump, they certainly won\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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