Trump Claims Farmers ‘Will Be A Very BIG And FAST Beneficiary’ Of China Deal

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While he hasn’t yet expounded on what trade deal he reached with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump bragged on Monday morning that farmer will be the main beneficiaries of the deal.

“Farmers, I LOVE YOU!” he tweeted.

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  1. Well, they better sow some grain fast, then…

  2. Bullshit. Farmers – even those idiotic enough to still support Trump – know damned well that China has signed multi-year contracts to import soybeans from other countries. And other agricultural commodities are already being bought from elsewhere.

    (In other words, this is yet another Trump lie. Everything Trump says is a lie.)

  3. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Well he certainly leveled the farmers’ fields.

  4. Avatar for hoagie hoagie says:

    There are more than 200 acres of soybean sitting rotting in a field just down the road from me. The farmer cannot harvest it because the grain elevators are all full and he has nowhere to put it if he does. The grain elevators are all full because there are no buyers. Lardass doesn’t seem to realize that farming isn’t something that is FAST. I live in Maryland, BTW, so this assumption that all farms are in the Midwest, Trumpworld, needs to be challenged.

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