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‘He’s Made Things Worse’: America’s Farmers Lament Latest Trade Escalation As Trump Pledges More Bailouts
"And the farmers are happy, because I gave them $16 billion out of the tariffs", Donald Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office on July 26.
It was the latest effort to pretend as though the administration's Depression-era farmer bailouts somehow make up for the deleterious effect of the trade war on American agriculture.
The president is understandably obsessed with gauging the mood among farmers, given they are key constituents - they are part of the base and, perhaps more than any o
Trump loves to hand out other peoples money to buy votes
Yep, just like his charitable contributions using other peoples money.
Haha. Tick, tick, tick… the metaphorical bomb inches closer to blowing up in his face.