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Even Farm Lobbyists Know That Trump Is Spreading Manure With His "200 Trade Deals" Talk. [1]
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Date: 2025-04-28
If you are a Republican, you know you have fucked up when Politico writes a bad headline about you.
Farmers’ plea to Trump
I’ve read this before somewhere? Oh yes! My favorite MAGA farmer Caleb Ragland did the same damn thing!
Anyway, the gist of this short article from Politico is that Big Agriculture Lobbyists (just AG for short) are lined up trying to beg Trump to end his trade war with China. Unfortunately, it appears that AG can’t get in the room with Trump. Or I should say AG has NOT been able to have an actual conversation with the Orange Messiah. What AG is getting is megatons of manure from Trump instead.
THE PRESSURE IS ON: Ag groups are pressuring the White House to hammer out new trade agreements as they watch major markets like China dissipate. “That’s been our number one ask to the administration,” one ag lobbyist told MA. “If we don’t find an export market that is comparable, then we end up in a position where, most likely, all that product will just go into a landfill.”
Emphasis is mine. I liked the part about just dumping all those commodities in a landfill. According to Trump, farmers should be able to find a DOMESTIC market for all that extra stuff not going to China.
That’s where the Trump manure starts.
And where it starts to rain down on AG’s head is when Trump claims he has already negotiated 200 trade deals:
One ag advocate, granted anonymity to candidly speak about the White House’s strategy, noted it would take a “massive amount of manpower” to negotiate 200 deals. “It all matters: where those deals are, whether they’re real and all of that,” they told MA. “For him to say that he’s got 200 is pretty astounding.”
Just sit back and take in the ambience of what that one lobbyist is saying. The first is he/she confirms what any layman should know but simply does not think of: trade deals are not done with just two people in the room. International trade deals should require “massive amount of manpower” to finish and finalize.
But MAGA lunatics think Trump can do magic, so who needs all those folks in a trade negotiation?
Next, I love the part with the “whether they’re real and all that.” Really? Have some doubts there Dude? It’s not like Trump has ever LIED to anyone about anything. But our intrepid hero on background must be afraid that his/her comments will somehow get back to Trump. Otherwise, why say, “For him to say that he’s got 200 is pretty astounding.”?
It’s pure, unadulterated Trump over the Moon lies we are talking here.
And while you might think that AG has an advocate in the room with Secretary of Agriculture Rollins, you would be oh so mistaken. In fact, she’s not the room at ALL. Rollins admits as much in the article!
What could possibly go wrong for farmers with this trade war with China?
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