It’s still early days, but President Donald Trump has already managed to keep a slew of election promises.

Declare war on clean energy? Done!

Issue pardons to criminals who beat police officers, defecated in the halls of the Capitol and tried to overturn an election? Done!

Rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali? Done and done!

There are, however, a couple items on that to-do list that Trump has not managed to check off.

He has yet to end the war in Ukraine in one day. Nor has he been able to bring down the cost of groceries — the one promise that would benefit all Americans.

Some Democrats are having fun — in a “we-told-you-so” sort of way — with that failure. They are especially focused on what’s being called an “egg crisis.”

SNL worked it into a skit: “Who would have thought it’d be easier to get a ceasefire in Gaza then bring down the price of eggs?” Trump — played by James Austin Johnson — asked.

While he once boasted about bringing prices down on day one, Trump is now hedging on whether it will even be possible. Naturally, he blames Biden for that.

“Look, they got them up,” he told Time Magazine. “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”

Vice President J.D. Vance echoed that on CBS News, by saying that it’s going to take a “bit of time” to reduce grocery prices.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” he reminded us.

He’s right. Historians estimate it took 800 years to build Rome.

Hopefully, it won’t take nearly that long to cut the price of omelette ingredients.

Whose fault is it, anyway?

The Trump administration is right about one other thing: Eggflation — as some pundits are calling it — isn’t their fault.

The shortage of eggs and the subsequent increase in prices is directly tied to bird flu, which is indeed a problem that Trump inherited from the Biden administration.

By many accounts, health officials under Biden bungled the early response.

“When the diagnosis came in, the government stood still. They didn’t know what to do, so they did nothing,” one veterinarian told Vanity Fair.

Under the circumstances, Trump deserves a moment of grace on this bird flu situation.

But that moment is about to expire, and from what we’ve seen so far, it does not appear that the current presidential administration will be any more up to the task of dealing with a bird flu pandemic than the last.

Exhibit A: On Tuesday, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, gave this explanation for the stubbornly high cost of eggs “… the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, therefore lack of egg supply, which is leading to the shortage.”

The news media immediately cried foul.

“Actually, a bird flu outbreak prompted the chicken culling under a federal policy adopted in 2017 under Trump’s first term,” reported CBS news out of Boston.

Then there’s the muzzling of the Department of Health and Human Services, which Trump has banned from issuing any “external communications” until Feb. 1.

In other words, no updates on bird flu, even as health officials grow more concerned about a new strain identified at a California duck farm. (Since federal health agencies went dark, news of the discovery of the new strain came from The World Organization for Animal Health, a Paris-based group focused on animal diseases.)

And let’s not forget the president’s nominees.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, has been tapped to head Health and Human Services. Here’s how seriously he’s taking that appointment: He could not be bothered to attend a recent, all-hands-on-deck meeting to prepare for the possibility of a future pandemic because he was too busy lobbying senators to support his nomination.

Brooke Rollins, the CEO of a conservative think tank, has been nominated as Department of Agriculture secretary. She has little actual experience in agriculture, though according to Agriculture Dive, she has said she guides “her four kids in their show cattle careers.” At a recent confirmation hearing, she told senators she has “a lot to learn” about bird flu.

And then there is Trump himself, who does not appear to have said anything about bird flu — or eggs, for that matter — since taking office.

Apparently, he’s leaving that to his press secretary.

Stephanie Finucane is the opinion editor of the San Luis Obispo Tribune.