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- Farmers believe they're the collateral damage in President Trump’s escalating battle with China over trade.
China’s threatened tariffs on more than 100 U.S. goods - including soybeans, corn, and cotton - are already impacting crop prices, even though they haven’t yet been implemented, and for many growers planting season is just starting.
After China made the announcement two weeks ago, soybean prices plummeted, upending farmers’ budgets for the coming year. One of them, Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICE News the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent. He said his expenses would remain the same, so his take-home income from the small farm, typically at least $60,000 a year, could be cut by more than two-thirds.
"As we look at that field, we just know how many dollars of loss that is going to be this fall," Fricke said, pointing to the field where he'll plant his soybean crop over the next month.
"We still have to plant [the soybeans], but we just know we’re not gonna come out ahead," Fricke said.
Beyond a threatened trade war with China, farmers have been worried about Trump's other trade policies such as exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and renegotiating NAFTA, Fricke said.
“Agriculture sometimes is at odds with some of the economy in our country, so we knew that we were going to have to pay some price. We just don't want to pay the whole price,” he said.
But he remains a Trump supporter - for now. Fricke said he’s hoping Trump will listen to farmers and find a solution before the trade fight, and farmers’ fortunes, get worse.
"I just emailed the president and all our representatives today about, you know, let's be careful how we think about doing this, because we were already in a difficult situation in agriculture right now. We don't need it to be worse,” he said.
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Illinois farmer Steve Fricke, told VICE News the tariff standoff could reduce his gross income by 20 percent.
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Jack Againski you know why.when all go well,no controversy,no story
NameGeneratorFailed This has all happened before with the Opium war with China & Britain. Huge amounts of silver were leaving Britain, and China was not buying in return. It caused a war... It will again.
We are In decline Make a war as you promised, American.
you have no idea....
VICE News...the new leftist propaganda machine! Speaking from Kansas....and farmers here...YOU ARE WAY OFF! WE WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP AGAIN...WHILE YOU LOOK DOWN UPON WE DEPLORABLES!
Trump= Make farmers poor again
Manipulating Angry Gullible Americans
Hahahahahahaha
Make Farmers Cry Again
Not when he legalizes weed lol. Farmers will become some of the richest especially the pot farms
LovinLife More people in this country then farmers you dweebs, liberal regulations have hurt farmers more then anything else
Thanks Trump for making China great again!
IDK but to me I think can sustain longer in this trade war than the US.
Canadian Poutine China is so great their building wait to fall down only after 2 years they are built and their living wage per hour had increased from 2 cents a day to 3 cents a day , and let’s not forget the forced military conscription for all 18 year old males, yup they are awesome !
I don’t feel sorry for these farmers. Why they thought a fake billionaire fraudster would do anything to help the working class
Farmers are at lowest class in the scale. It capitalism at the finnest
ding ding ding. We have a winner. Trump is so easily spotted a con man he's comical. And he's not a good one, by definition, then. Why you'd believe anything that comes out of his mouth by this point, I have no idea.
Jernando Aguirre You do realize not all these farmers are family businesses doing their best to get by, right? Nowadays, mega corporations tend to own multiple farms. These guys aren't all necessarily peasants.
Lol......
Hillary voters care about farmers. Farmers barely survived the drought of the 1980's. Tax revenue pay for farm subsides. Trump gave a massive tax cut, of which 80% of the benefits go to the wealthiest millionaires and billionaires. Any farmer who saw that tax cut go into effect should know that farm subsidies cuts are coming their way soon. So the farmer in this clip should be foaming at the mouth at Trump's irresponsible tax cuts that will hurt the small farmers across the country. But for him to still stand by Trump is why people NOW don't feel sorry for them. They don't know who their real enemy is...and its not Hillary!
"I believe in individual responsibility and small government"
Makes money by growing commodity crops subsidized by big government. Classic
Wish I could like your comment 1k more times.. like the ranchers out west, living on free land that's been passed down to them, fighting against welfare ...
No one really matters it’s not free if you have to work on it.
Republican Farmer, hates big government. Farming is the most federally subsidized occupation in the country. Makes sense....
chrisl126-and very abused program, I worked in an agricultural office. Yet they'd sit in the bars and coffee shops complaining about welfare programs.
Trump's arms crossed that means he's lying to the farmers
You want smaller government, let me know how you like farm subsidies eliminated.
Right? The dude is straight growing Corn and Soy!
they will subsidize them with the money from food stamps. the voters ruin this country, Hillary is laughing hysterically!
google .name. Farm subsodies are until after this is over. The price for crop will go up then. Where do some people learn there economic s in collage? College education no common sence. Professor's pound in there little heads socialism is the answer globalism comes out of a elits ass looking like sunshine.
Bull shit
What? I don’t follow half track mind.
google .name those subsidies where going to fall out anyway. We are just seeing Obama's bandaid coming off.
lol at a farmer supporting small government as if farm subsidies aren’t a massive handout
And 'Individual Responsibility'.
good bye Columbus
gregodensknees52. Farm subsidies hay go get you a farm and tell me about that hot shot. I voted trump and i also farm and i also know for our countrys deficit this has to be done. Point is taxing a industry period is not right taxes is the burdon of we the people taxing industry is only handed down to the people and its foolish not to think so. And taxing a farmers land he plants on is also foolish. Taxing the farmer on how much he pays himself is the correct way. Not taxing the damn farm to begin with. More and more farmers sell off tracks of land just to stay abouve water. And others lose there land cause the county takes it like a land grab. to property tax a farm for land it grows surpluse on is not right. Taxing a farmers home is one thing. But all the land that farm needs to operate by is not.
and he's taking advantage by feeding his cattle corn, only because it is cheaper than grass, subsidized by the gov.
half track mind for the countries deficit Trump added a trillion dollars to the deficit so far.
You voted for him. We all pay the price. Brilliant.
It's China revenging on us and we have to overcome it. Be patient.
@Very Fake News CNN Okay, I appreciate your opinion.
Bend Over I want you to pay a PRICE...
like turkeys voting for thanksgiving! 😆
like turkeys voting for thanksgiving! 😆
How can you believe in individual responsibility when your industry is so dependent on government subsidies?
It is individual's responsibility to suck at the teats of the government.
Mark Mulakush cognitive dissonance
Hey trump said you guys are patriots and don’t mind losing the money lol 🤦♂️🤷🏻♂️
Smaller government dose not mean a better government. Good regulations make a better government.
Manuel Montiel tariffs are also a sign of big government
You sir, just got Punkd! Presidential Edition
Felix Gijón don’t you have a place to swim back to
Evil One-All of that hate and ignorance is exactly what got you in this predicament to begin with. But, keep it up, “high IQ.” Don’t you have a cave to crawl back to?!
Felix Gijón 👍🏾 someone liked your reply!
Evil One
His swim is a very short one, I can’t say the same about your swim, for you have to swim across the ocean! Good luck and get yourself a head-start.
@m. rude They say drunkards aren't racist but this is evid
Good for China
Steven Blague And for Europe.
You voted for a clown, how you think he will act?
Incoming triggered trump supporters.
tritan you right 100%
Is Hillary identifying as a man now?
Agtsmirnoff I see what you were trying to do. It failed miserably and it doesn't work. Congratulations, you are not witty or funny.
Nice to see the brain dead dems are here early.
Poor guy, too proud (or stubborn) to admit he was wrong about Trump.
How about too stupid.
So his wallet will be empty. And he will have to make a decision. Is he going to eat the food of sell it?
is like a broken familie they do not know That they are fucked up.
3.4 million jobs added by trump in less than two years
He's not poor, he made a lot of money per year actually lol.
I love how he still supports Trump yet people in the comments feel the need to protect him.
America isnt trying to stop China from developing they are trying to Balance the Trade,,,,,Hers the math again Just with China Canada Mexico Germany alone America has a 600 Billion Dollar Per Year Uneven Trade this would equal 9 Million 60 Thousand Dollar per year Jobs or 18 Million 30 Thousand Dollar Per year jobs if we continue to export are jobs we wont have a job to go to, this is the result of bad American leadership from the past and Corp greed,China as well have been used in a bad way in that Corp Greed buy your products for cheap and sell them here for much higher prices Take for Example a Levi Jeans 1 pair will cost about 55 American Dollars So Corp Greed and bad Leaders are filling up there pots of Gold by using China Labor force for very Cheap and you see that in your wages and life style and in America Corp Greed is treating us bad at the store when we buy a Levi for 55 Dollars
Didn’t southern folk (including farmers) vote for trump?
Yup, farmers here in Europe are stoked, haha
They only produce 1/3rd of what the US does. its gonna take more than just europe to fill that void if there even is one. i grew up farming this guy is livin high on the hog compared to the other 90% of farmers.
The irony is that Russia is gonna benefit from this the most. The sanctions forced them to diversify their industries and have turned them from a country that couldn't feed themselves into one of the biggest grain exporters in the world. Their agricultural industry is exploding. If China is gonna buy soybeans from anyone, it's gonna be Russia.
Btw, if we never placed sanctions on Russia, then their economy probably would have died of Dutch Disease, like Venezuela's economy did.
Tyler Durden Why would they have gotten Dutch Disease?
+ Tyler Durden
As it stands right now, 10% of Russians suffer malnutrition because they can't buy enough food, food quality has been reduced dramatically, and 30% of Russians can't buy sufficient clothes.
They lost nearly half of their trade volume since Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army terrorist strike against flight MH17 and more things which made Russia impopular.
By the way, you need to recheck Venezuela. They face hyperinflation as a result of the socialist government stealing private assets, which collapsed investment into Venezuela overnight. If you got goods or coin you want to export it as quickly as possible, because its value decreases literally by the hour. Goods, money and people flee the country.
The Dutch situation in the 1970's was a too strong increase in value of the coin, the gulden, because of natural gas exports, resulting in a bad competitive position for Dutch industries which couldn't export anymore.
It's the opposite of Venezuela's problem.
Tristan Europe,Canada among other Countries don't like American dairy products because they use rBST Growth Hormones
No farmers no food
No money no honey.
No honey no suckey.
plok ijuh no suckey no std
Will Zipf mexicas immigrants help U.S. farmers alot now deportations and tariffs are hurting the American people thanks to a clown.
That soy was going overseas anyway. It's just another example of how rikity capitalism really is.
There’s no one more spoiled or more subsidized than American farmers. If Trump really wanted to hurt them he’d institute E-verify. He should.
I wish she would have been more specific. Like "he provided huge corporate tax breaks (which are not delivering the value to the average worker), and his trade war is impacting you directly and indirectly, with lower income and more expensive goods. Would you vote for him today?"
Carlos Rodriguez You mean you wished she would do the exact opposite of being a journalist lol
Lol - good point. You could get there with questions. Are the tax breaks are delivering on the benefits to workers (4000-7000) Republicans claimed? Is the trade war with China going to raise prices on goods in the US? Would you vote for him today?
+ Carlos Rodriguez
Trump's already de-clawed his anti-free trade measures. The EU called a meeting where they basically showed him a big middle finger and made it clear they would wage a full-out trade war that would make the anti-Bush tariffs seems like childsplay by comparison.
That put together is the vast majority of world trade that the US can reach and is influenced by, so Trump dropped his plans to hamper trade with the EU.
that is the exact opposite of what trump did you know? if you had a job you'd have realized that your paycheck and that of every other working class americans paycheck increased buy average of 100$.
+Fumbles this may help you understand what I meant above. Corporate tax breaks were HUGE - from 35% to 21% (that's a 40% reduction). Of course, many large corps don't pay anything near that tax rate. I'm pretty sure most people didn't get 40% bonuses or pay increases.
CEOs are taking advantage of the corporate tax cuts to buy back stock in order to reward investors (BTW at that level most CEOs income is usually in the form of stocks/options, so it directly impacts their compensation). Buying back stock takes stock out of circulation, so it increases the value of the remaining stock. ADP CEO even admitted the benefits will be to investors on the news. Other CEOs have been equally open about what they will do with tax breaks to benefit investors. [Why it's important - making rich people richer by cutting taxes]
Why am I talking about the corporate taxes, right? You got a tax break. Well because a lot of that 'puff' benefit to average families was based on the companies using their big tax breaks to make life better for the average person. Politicians selling the plan claimed between $4000-9000 in benefits for the average family. [Why it's important - This will increase the deficit significantly and may reduce important Government funding - like Education]
Hardworking families will see some limited benefit (mostly from their own tax breaks, but there will not really be 'trickle down' like that claimed to sell the tax plan.
Trickle down can, in theory, work. But, only typically in capital heavy manufacturing where the only way to increase the size of your business is to make more stuff so you need more people and factories. In that situation you would take your tax break and create more jobs. As much of big business has off-shored labor - they are not interested. Most money in the US is made through finance.
I'd suggest you look at the breakout of the USA GDP (www.bea.gov) - the largest sector for our GDP is financial - it is basically 2x that of manufacturing. Making money by moving money - rich people's territory.
There are outliers - some companies will take the opportunity to invest. Hilton was supposed to build more hotels (capital investment). Walmart provided bonuses and some pay increases (side note - WMT will get some of this back, as most of their workers shop at WMT. I've not looked at how this impacts their workers on gov aid).
NET - Rich people will benefit the most from this tax plan and likely at your expense. I'd rather have people like you get the benefits. Hope that helps.
I love how the man who gets government tax breaks, government subsidies, government crop insurance, government guarantees on his loans, and who knows what else (maybe food stamps and Medicaid for his kids), says he believes in smaller government.
If the Republicans did not need their delusional asses votes, they would have cut off the bribes this voting block (farmers and farmer dependent jobs) a LONG time ago.
TC IronBear farmers appear to be part of repub. base even if they dump their milk in ditches and thats that ive noticed...
Do not feel bad for the farmers. They got what they wanted. So they better own to it. 😊
Individual responsibility and small government yet will take a subsidy. Typical Trump Hypocrisy
Just grow a few acres of weed , that will even things out
Oh well, you ask for it!
Are we ever going to grow tired of winning?
Schizophrenia can be managed, no?
Ojay Is Ojay There is as yet no cure, but there are good and effective schizophrenia treatment options, and recovery of a quality of life is possible.
Peter Griffin your country is infected with capitalism. Symptoms are bad agriculture
Fernando Aguirre Every country is infected. Those who are not get bombed.
Peter Griffin Canada China new Zealand, Denmark and Sweden isn't
We gone be in a recession in 2-3 years
Correct. Depression. Have fun big BOY
Harrison Brooks opposite of that.
Probably before that, layoffs have already started in US, just wait until the inflation hits!!
John Anderson yuh
Harrison Brooks
You mean DEPRESSION?
You get what you voted for
trump doesn‘t care about farmers, he acts based on his ego and being offended
hummertop1 the fact that you talk about college education when farmers are the topic just goes to show how educated you are
The seeds of your own destructions.
Voted for Trump...No sympathy from me!!
Go by all these Farms on the interstate with the Trump signs make America great again soon the sign will say farm for sale
Ask how that farmer voted. Then I'll let you know if I care or not.
The depth of the Republican voter.
Jim Meh elaborate
The fact that republican voters convinced themselves they should believe all the provably inaccurate trash that someone scripted for him (DJ) from minute one* of his campaign and are now seeing the manifestations of his failed temper-tantrum policies because reality doesn't sinc up with DJ's narcisistic, sociopathic, ego-driven imagination, yet they say, in not so many words, "I support him even though he is literally driving us toward foreclosures and bankruptcy because working backwards from a conclusion in effort to give some appearance of credibility toward my poor decisions is more important than saying 'I fucked up because all that was really behind my vote was simple hatred of people that live, believe and vote differently than me. I won't do that again.'"
Personally, I think they should have voted for Hillary. I feel they would have been pleasantly surprised at how much of a warmongering crony-capitalist she and the rest of the neoliberals really are.
*Anyone running for POTUS that says "I'm not a politician" is catering to the smallest common denominators in the particularly eneducated demographic seeing as the POTUS is, axiomatically, a political position. Also axiomatic, "clean coal" never has been, isn't and never will be coal that's been mined, washed and then burned so it emits less toxic pollutants. That's not how any of this works.
If you voted for Hillary or Bernie you are equally as moronic. We need a Libertarian in office.
Lumping Bernie and Shillary into the same category is moronic. The Clintons have some time and again they are neoliberals. This country needs socialism, but I definitely could have thrown Gary Johnson a vote if even just for a shot at breaking up the oligarchy.
he wouldn't a lost one penny with Hillary. Farmers been milking the whole country for awhile now
Why? Cause cheap good foods are yummy to us...and that Great Depression thing worried us?
You reep what you voted for. 🗳 📢
I love how the guy who's getting interviewed is a pro Trump supporter and he's being pro Trump in the interview and yet somehow this is still Vice liberal propaganda...
hes keeping his support for a person who just took a massive dump on him. Just goes to show how stubborn people are to their beliefs. It's like people who fall for doubling scams, and keep giving the scammer money.
Well to be fair the reporter did keep trying to get him to express disappointment in Trump.
Nick Polachi I don't know if propoganda is the right word for it but it is the typically simplistic, heavy narrative nonsene that Vice now pumps out these days. None of this exists in vacuum. China buys US exports because they need them. In the area if food exports, they have been securing most of the world's exports for many years now. They bully other buyers with their own massive buying power. The Soybeans they slapped a 25% tarrif on were instead bought by the EU. Someone else in standing in line behind China. That's how you win a trade war. The only thing that the US actually needs from China is rare earth. People can buy socks from Bangladesh. And even then, the US has huge untapped rare earth reserves but it's just easier to let China pollute their own country because it is very dirty business getting it out of the ground. Japan just found a huge deposit so they won't have their supplies used as leverage by China as they have done in the past.
What truly terrifies China is that everyone else who is being economically bullied by them, also begins to stand up to them. The fact that our own media argues against our own best interests is troubling.
Positive Mental Attitude
Almost like religion where even if people pointed out what's shitty about it the religious people will still keep on believing
He's still spewing his trump bullshit.
How much more do the farmers have to lose before they stop believing that Trump is here to solve their problem?
The price dropped because soy out produced corn. They said it. He should have hedged his bets on a more diverse crop plan.
"Individual responsibility" and "smaller government" are slogans, and to some extent desirable but they break down as conservative mantras when you consider that one of America's founding documents begins with the phrase "We, the people..." and when the most stirring speech delivered by an American president (Republican, no less) concludes: "...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." When the Republican party (and the Democrats) becomes the party of big money and corporations and no longer represent those foundational values, the only patriotic thing to do is to stop repeating unAmerican slogans and for God's sake - to not vote for the bastards.
He voted for a psychopath and now he is surprised. As ye sow so shall ye reap. He earned his reward or lack of it.
Just about all rural/farming jurisdictions went overwhelmingly for Trump. Let them live with the consequences of falling for a con man.
moo you voted for him so you got what you wanted moo
The winning kicked in yo!
He probably voted for Donald Trump
he literally said he did
You mean Donald Duck!!!!!!!
M S: Pay attention.....he said he did.
As any farmer knows "You reap what you sow".
This hard working guy is losing literally thousands of dollars and may go broke but will still likely vote for Trump-unbelievable.
Cows are cute
John Seabiscuit and delicious 🥩
indian god
Everyone in this comment section, well actually I have a degree in cows from Harvard and I think your wrong so I guess you should stop talking about this
YET u eat them u savage
They also taste nice
Q, how do you start off in small business? A. start with a big business and take it from there.
Tired of that winning yet?
Most Hated 😂😂😂😂
These people work hard to put food on your table, yet they get treated like shit. Support your farmers.
Karma indeed is a nasty surprise ... Our punishment by separating the calves from their moms' & put nozzles on their noses preventing them their milk ...
Well farmboys, what did you expect. We tried to save you. Now we're all screwed
0h boy get the taste of your own medicine lol.
Farmers like small government when come to regulations but big government when they wants some hand out.
I love vice
Yeah, we took about $200 million out of farmers' pockets.......
Trump should just zero tax farmers
They already do it's called subsidies
Connor Kenway subsidies is paying farmers to keep goods prices at a competitive price. Tax reductions are called deductions which farmers get but should get more or even get a zero tax + subsidies if needed. States should also help as well, and also eliminate property or land tax for farmers
alishihab32 Please, enlighten me on why farmers are so special
Connor Kenway because they feed us, and sacrifice a much better life style for the greater good of the people and the nation and it's national security and self reliance. Now your turn why are they not so special
alishihab32 because they're not charity workers. The farming buisness can be quite lucrative to right person.
I took from this story that even though the republicans are hurting him he still believes in the general republican platform. He should think how the individual politician will benefit him and forget about voting on party ideals This would be more beneficial to him.
Well, then those republican farmers need to do what they tell other people to do....and pull themselves up from their bootstraps, not rely on government or anyone for anything and do it all on their own.
i supported him
Samuel Moriasi you know what they say it’s easier to con people than to convince people they’ve been swindled and con’d
Samuel Moriasi just a quick question how is it possible to ignore all the facts and his overall delusional racist attitude? I mean that's what is really impressive to me.
Forgot to include the quotation marks "-"
Blizz DeKay How is Trump racist? Lol
Anyone that thinks trump is a stable genius please go to Atlantic City and see what he did over there
Democratic propaganda!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr.762 your people are losing a lot of income , your trade deal hits the europen people too ! My people and you just say "liberal propaganda !1!1!1 " ?
very few jobs related to growing soy beans
He gave THEM money, not Iran or some other country. He gave it to American Farmers to strengthen American people, not fixing Mosques around the world like the last 8 years.
In the end when's the end Trump. You're not going to help these guys because you're full of broken promises, among other things.
God bless you farmers🌽🌽🌽🌽 🌽🌽🌽
Its the Chinese people that will be paying more for soy beans if they put a tariff on them. How the heck is it gonna change the price that he sells them for?
China gets it else where. You're so dumb.
You don’t understand economics, do you?
Voting against your own economic interest. Classic republican.
they voted for him they shouldn't be complaining
Serves them right for voting for Trump!
Vice needs to do a follow up looking at the imposition of the tariffs and the escalating trade war on agricultural income and farm life.
"You're republican and you supported Donald Trump?" "Mhmmm"
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that was enough for me to go to the next video x'D #SucksToBeYou #Nooottttt
Keep whining, why don't you? Can't make your bottom line? Sell the land to Chinese developers and get a real job instead of a money losing hobby.
America, we need to stop subsidies for soy, corn, wheat, and animal ag. Those foods are killing us. Make subsidies for fresh fruit and veggies.
Can I say something? How about stop spending money on war?
That's the problem when we elect a billionaire leader.
*LOL The Vice reporter was trying so hard make the farmer guy say he regrets voting for Trump, but he didn't.*
Not confronting China with their idiotic behavior hurts our economies too. I am not a Trump guy, but he is right on the whole China thing. It's also a problem here in Europe.
"We'll make it up to them."....with most economic policy, there are some that are disadvantaged in some way. Raise taxes to repair a budget or gather funding for some service comes at the expense of households and their cost of living. These things may be painful but are often necessary..."We'll make it up to them" is not the response.
The interviewer is so biased. She’s trying to guide him into blaming trump with her questions
Trump to ban soybean production and replace it with higher yield cannabis, go trump go
It always gets darker before the dawn.
South Dakota farmer here, thought Trump would ruin our prices with the tarriffs, but the prices have gone up due to natural causes plus he has passed things to make people to consume more ethonol and corn has went up substantially, so is no loss for now. I have locked in grain prices for 2018 much higher than I could in 2017 or 2016. So I am pleased. It is funny how things work out
...based n what I'm seeing on the pbs farm shows, you are lucky you aren't growing soy beans...you want to see a bunch of middle aged white guys sweating, tune in, and you just know who they all voted for, which is strange because Trump made it clear what he was going to do re:tarrifs from the beginning of his campaign...Anyways I grew up and live in a farming community with many lifelong friends in the business (eastern Ontario) so hang in there...
The Mexican border wide open with beef coming in, 5 years ago it opened up after the E coli scare was over and us farmers suffering ever since , not sure about China really but I think they bought pork off of us
Here's the deal, if you buy more from China than they buy from us. unless you buy less of their products there will always be a deficit .
Trump tells these farmers eat soy beans for breakfast, lunch and dinner..
So this farmer who believes in personal responsibility supported--and probably still supports--one of the most irresponsible humans on the planet to run the most powerful country on the planet? Make sense of that for me, please.
The tariffs have not even be legislated yet. You cannot blame Trump for anything at this point. The reason the price went down is because if the president even sneezes, all of wall street panic sells their stocks. If they think they will lose even a penny, they sell massive sections of their portfolios. Perhaps we need more regulation on panic selling to prevent this.
The EU has tariffs on many imports but is still a very strong economy. Whatever short term effects will be shadowed by the long term effects. In the case of the EU, those effects were positive.
It wasn't hurting them to bad because all those states still went red and voted for TRUMP.
JUST LIKE A REPUBLICAN, vote against their personal interest!
FOR WHAT?
tRump is on the side of farming, just not in the USA😩😩😩
Even in the face of starvation, they still stand by their man. Amazing. Let's see how he feels 3 months from now.
Most of those farmers voted for Trump. You think I feel sorry for them I don't! You get what you vote for.
Trump needs to raise taxes to give tax payer money to keep farmers afloat.
Bi-partisan agreement that these tariffs are actually a good thing and will help our country in the long run.
This farm is actually surprisingly very reasonable. I didn't think there are still normal people left in Trump's voters.
in his company, trump makes decision and let his employee tank all the risks.
in his country, trump makes decision and let his people tank all the risks.
he has nothing to lose
This is the first time vice has cared about farming
Slapped on the face but hopefully in the fire, there's a better republican president
No job, and I mean NO job is more important than our farmers. Society would not exist as we know it without modern agriculture.
It's amazing! "Blind Faith" for a man ( Trump) But not "Blind Faith" for The Lord! Wow!!!!!
If Obama were still president he would allow foreign countries to raise their tariffs on our goods and apologize to them for not asking them to do this earlier.