“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.

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    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.