Are food prices worse under Biden or Trump?

It depends what you mean by “worse.”

• If you mean the pace of food inflation, it was worse under Biden. Grocery prices rose much faster in 2021–2023, and inflation peaked in late 2022 before easing later.
• If you mean the actual prices shoppers paid at the store, prices stayed high under Trump too. They did not fall back to pre-pandemic levels, and a recent Senate analysis said families paid about $310 more for groceries in 2025 than in 2024.

So the short answer is: Biden saw the sharper surge in food inflation, but Trump inherited and continued to preside over high grocery prices.

A fair way to phrase it is that the big jump happened under Biden, while the high price level persisted under Trump.