“I’m going to do some farm stuff this week,” the president told reporters at the White House.
That’s Trump speak for finalizing a massive new aid program for farmers who have lost billions of dollars thanks to the president’s tariffs, which sparked a trade war with China earlier this year.
American farmers are on track to sell $10 billion less in soybeans to China compared to last year, and sorghum exports to China—which last year totaled $1.3 billion—are down 97 percent this year, according to The Times.
At the same time, the tariffs have pushed up costs for American farmers, who are facing higher prices for fertilizer and equipment at the exact moment that they’ve lost their biggest customer.
This is bullshit. Fuck up the economy with tarrifs, which are currently missing … then bail out the farmers. This seems like a grift.
Farmers meaning multinational corporations, right? So basically forcing small farmers into bankruptcy and subsidizing the companies to buy them out.
Typically Trumpian wealth transfer.
No. That will be next year when the propaganda mills shift the blame for this from the pedo Trump admin to the family farmers for not “fixing” the issues that the pedo Trump admin caused.
When that happens, that’s when AcreTrader will show up to buy their land for pennies on the dollar.
Isn’t there an ongoing shutdown?
Sounds like socialism to me…
Apparently it’s okay as long as it’s blue states bailing out the morons in red states-- who voted for this to happen!!!
It’s State Capitalism.
Buying support. And the idiots will remember that “Trump saved them” without ever understanding why they needed saving in the first place.
They remember how he screwed them over in his first term, but then bailed them out. They voted for him again, knowing they would get bailed out. Maybe now is the time we don’t bail them out? Most of that money goes to giant corporate AG anyway.
They remember how he screwed them over in his first term, but then bailed them out
Nah, they have selective amnesia about the former and a thousand lies to explain why the latter was necessary.
It worked when he did the exact same thing in his first term, so…
Trying to solve the problem he caused, but with half as much money as he gave away to Argentina for similar economic blunders. Other countries get more aid from Trump than America - I thought that was a Democratic fault??
I don’t understand why anyone plays any of their games anymore. Left or right. America or any other 1st world country.
America
First World Country
Pick one
Signed, An American living in the only nation without single payer
Left or right
The left doesn’t have any power in the US. The ruling party is literally fascist and the “opposition” party is right wing to far right.
The closest thing to an influential Left wing presence in Washington is a dozen or so center-left politicians being treated as deranged and dangerous communist revolutionaries by the leaders of both parties as well as all mainstream media outlets.
THE NATIONAL DEBT!!! or whatever they shriek about
Can’t tell if you’re trying to downplay it here but the national debt is a pretty big deal
“I’m going to do some farm stuff this week,”
Y’all should hide your sheep and chicken.
The party of financial irresponsibility.
The thoughts and prayers bailout plan, everyone gets thoughts and prayers
Everything he does makes me want to seek out the people that voted for him and thank them with my fists
You’ll need to stay hydrated.
Good news, farmers are the backbone of this country
