Trump brags he ‘rewarded’ farmers with $28bn in taxpayer aid after his first damaging tariffs. He’s set to do it again

Donald Trump boasted in a post on Truth Social Tuesday that he “rewarded” America’s farmers with a $ 28 billion bail to taxpayer aid after an earlier harmful round of rates he imposed during his first administration.

He is now ready to do it again for his ‘Patriots’, which supports him at the polls. According to an analysis by Midwest investigation, a vast majority in all except 11 of the 444 farm-dependent provinces supported Trump last year.

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Due to farmers’ greatness, they are always placed on the front line with our adversaries, such as China, when there is a trade negotiation, “Trump wrote in his post on Tuesday.

‘I rewarded our farmers with a $ 28 billion payment, all by the China agreement. It was a wonderful deal for the US, “he insisted.

Trump claimed that China subsequently “reinforced” the agreement reached by the two countries after the trade conflict, although he did not provide any details.

So here we are again, Trump wrote and promised: “The US will protect our farmers !!!”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday that administration officials were discussing “relief” for farmers injured by Trump’s trade war.

Trump’s generosity with taxpayer funds comes, even if he is federal agencies, tens of thousands of federal jobs, federal contracts and public services in a declared step to save money.

Trump critic, Ron Filipkowski, hit the billions of rands on the horizon for farmers who voted for Trump, even when he promised to impose the rates that they complained about as’ Maga Socialism ‘in a post on X.’

China’s 125 percent retaliation rates on US imports after Trump’s 145 percent levies on Chinese goods will hit US farmers especially as China mainly buys US agricultural products, including soybeans, oilseeds and grains – as well as $ 1.6 billion of beef last year.

Soybean exports from the US have already given a big hit of Trump’s first-term trading war with a boost in 2018 when China to Brazil instead of US farmers to provide its soybeans. Brazilian soybean exports to China have grown by more than 280 percent since 2010, while US soybean exports to China remained flat.

This time, some analysts expect China to reduce its imports of US agricultural goods such as soybeans to almost zero, which can cause bail last time.

Meanwhile, farmers have been hit by the administration with great cuts to the school food programs and are struggling with devastating flooding in Texas and across the Middle West.

‘There is a lot of uncertainty and I hate being used as a bargaining disc. I am definitely worried, ‘said Texas farmer Travis Johnson The guardian. He lost more than 1,000 hectares of crops after a year’s rain was dumped into the Rio Grande Valley last month within 48 hours.

“I can see how some rates can help us compete with Mexico, but are we really targeted by every other country, or are we on the wrong side of this?” he wonders.