“Rep Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, sparked online backlash with a post in which he questioned President-elect Trump’s ability to bring down grocery prices. Social media users were quick to point out that food prices spiked under President Biden’s leadership. ‘I don’t care if Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. I just want to know what he’s going to do to lower the cost of groceries,’ Rep Swalwell wrote on X. But social media users noted that the congressman’s party had control of the House, Senate and White House while Americans struggled to afford food. While they later lost control of the House after the 2022 midterm elections, the Democrats held on to the Senate,” Fox News reported in a Wednesday article titled “Swalwell slammed on social media for questioning how Trump will lower grocery prices” asserting that “social media users” incontestably shut down the Dem Congressman for daring to question the convicted felon president-elect.

They then pasted in the following “slam,” the only one included:

You mean clean up the mess you made?

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) January 8, 2025

“Swalwell later appeared to double down on his assertion that Trump will not lower grocery prices. ‘Guys, it’s so obvious. Trump has no idea how to lower your cost of groceries. So he’s going to distract you by sending your kids to die fighting Canada,’ Swalwell tweeted,” the article continued.

Fox News then pasted in said “double down:

Guys, it’s so obvious. Trump has no idea how to lower your cost of groceries. So he’s going to distract you by sending your kids to die fighting Canada.

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 8, 2025

“However, this only brought more fury the congressman’s way, with social media users questioning why the congressman is not more worried about the fires raging in his state that has so far left two dead and forced thousands to flee their homes,” Fox reporter Rachel Wolf wrote, without specifying that Swalwell’s district, California’s 14th, lies on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay, over 300 miles from the fires ravaging Los Angeles County. Nor that he posted this less than an hour later:

This is so sad.

Elon, I believe you want to help as much as I do.

I’ll use my post on Homeland Security Committee to have an open mind re: concerns over fire cause/response. Can you use this platform and your money to help poorer families who lost their homes/workplaces? https://t.co/O2b1Ej2KZq

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 8, 2025

There were no replies to Swalwell included in the article after that, meaning Fox News readers had to simply take the propaganda network’s word for it that the Democrat was made to regret his words saying he did not care whether or not Trump spends US taxpayer dollars acquiring Greenland as long as he fulfills his campaign pledge to lower grocery prices for Americans.

Don’t question your leaders! pic.twitter.com/kFFLMl2IY4

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 9, 2025

Swalwell did however appreciate the write-up.