I have no sympathy for any farmer who voted for Trump. They had a similar situation in his first administration. Remember?
The shutdown is delaying Trump’s farm bailout. Farmers say it won’t be enough even when it happens.
Category: Farmers
Trump is screwing farmers. I have no sympathy for any farmer who voted for him
I bet part of this is to get small farmers to sell out to big companies.
Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t.Watch all the way through.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-10-02T02:41:58.012Z
More pain for US farmers as government shutdown halts payments reut.rs/46Itt8Z
— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-10-01T22:35:11Z
Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) 2025-10-01T20:30:15.868Z
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
— Sarah Taber (@sarahtaber.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T22:40:36.121Z
"This is just like setting the farm on fire and then sending in the firefighters. You solve the problem, but there's a much simpler way."– Me, on the coming bailout for farmers hurt by the trade war:
— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T18:52:02.364Z
Farmers planted in April or May. They have to sell in the next couple months. There isn’t any way they can react to the Trump havoc. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b…
— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T00:10:54.511Z
Trumps tariffs are bad for farmers
I’m not sympathetic to anyone who voted for Trump.
“Farm country voted overwhelmingly to unleash a new trade war. And now these same farmers want taxpayers to finance another round of bailouts to protect them from the consequences of their own votes.”Jessica Riedl explains: thedispatch.com/article/farm…
— The Dispatch (@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T18:39:06.226Z
‘This wasn’t supposed to happen.’”Large dairy farms pay so low that migrants live in trailers on the farms in freezing Vermont while working 12hr/days, 6 days/wk. They continue to support Trump? Proves that exploitative racist bosses are stupid bosses too.www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/22/m…
— Linda Patch 💙🌊🐶 (@lindapatch.bsky.social) 2025-05-25T14:59:58.047Z
US farmers are in ‘full-blown crisis’ as Chinese orders for pork and soybeans plunge amid Trump tariff war with China.Last week China cancelled 12,000 tons of pork and dropped soybean orders to just 1,800 tons from 72,800 tons previously.#MomSky#Voices4Victoryshare.newsbreak.com/cul2sqml?s=i16
— Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@zen4ever2us.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T21:04:47.744Z
Donald Trump said his tariffs would help our farmers.But the real cost of his self-inflicted tax will hit them hard, potentially putting many just one crop away from bankruptcy.How American can that be?
— Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) 2025-04-08T17:05:27.248Z
Farmers do not deserve special treatment
No to the proposed Trump farm bailout. American farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump, they should pay the same tariffs their candidate has imposed on all other Americans, no special handouts. From @theatlantic.com http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
— David Frum (@davidfrum.bsky.social) 2025-04-28T14:56:36.389Z
This alfalfa farmer and Trump supporter would rather lose everything than admit he was wrong. Exactly why it’s hard to feel sorry for these folks—they’d rather crash and burn than change course.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-04-21T00:00:07.268Z
California is the nation's top agricultural exporter, shipping almonds, pistachios, oranges, dairy products and other commodities around the world. Now, farmers fear that Trump’s tariffs could hit the state’s agriculture industry hard. http://www.latimes.com/environment/… #tariffs
— Ian James (@ianjames.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T14:51:11.002Z
Donald Trump said his tariffs would help our farmers.But the real cost of his self-inflicted tax will hit them hard, potentially putting many just one crop away from bankruptcy.How American can that be?
— Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) 2025-04-08T17:05:27.248Z
Trump’s trade policies were a disaster for farmers
U.S. government checks constituted 40% of farmers' income in 2020, per USDA https://t.co/ZFnN5lqyr0
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 4, 2021
I’ve been told that buying votes is illegal. https://t.co/p78BIADAwP
— Resist. (@CasualTim) January 4, 2021
38% of South Dakota's budget is from federal aid.
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) January 4, 2021
$46 billion in aid was delivered to farmers under Trump.
So, please do tell us more about this socialism you dislike so much. https://t.co/ulqvq09Mc0
.@chrislhayes on Trump’s "massive payout" to farmers and why Democrats and the press should never, ever, ever, ever worry or take Republicans seriously when they complain about giving people “free stuff.” https://t.co/PPEIwzYU5q
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) October 24, 2020
91 percent of money diverted from consumers to farmers by Trump's tariffs system went to counties that voted Trump. On average, the amount disbursed per person in blue counties was $224. In red, $756. https://t.co/DiASgdEthl pic.twitter.com/BEYsphjvOx
— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 21, 2020
I wonder what they would call this if farmers were predominantly Black and lived in blue states. https://t.co/9Xo0zTUehM pic.twitter.com/NgL2squftC
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) October 20, 2020
Key line in this WSJ story: Mr. Trump’s USDA projects it will pay a record $37.2 billion this (election) year to farmers and ranchers, with the administration in mid-September pledging an additional $14 billion in aid. https://t.co/h3J8AZygTL
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 19, 2020
Trump shovels money at farmers to make up for his trade disasters
Not for nothing does Trump talk about the "great patriot farmers" –> Trump’s farmer bailout has given $21 billion to red counties and $2.1 billion to blue ones https://t.co/RKtXGuBJG9
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 20, 2020
Remember Obamaphones? It was part of a whole racist theory that poor black people liked Obama because he gave them free stuff from the government!
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 20, 2020
A stimulus deal might be stymied, but Trump is funneling record subsidies to his farmers.
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) October 12, 2020
Payments this year project to top $40 billion.
There was a late push to help North Carolina tobacco farmers & Sonny Perdue was hit with a Hatch Act violation.https://t.co/eHoihGH6WZ
Should read: Trump attempts to buy farmers votes as his poll numbers decline. https://t.co/KSZQssJjpL
— James (@jcmarbury) September 18, 2020
Trump then falsely claimed that the $28 billion in tariff money given to farmers was paid by China. That's money paid by Americans. (American importers make the actual tariff payments, and study after study has shown Americans are bearing the overwhelming portion of the cost.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
Trump just claimed farmers benefit "more than anybody else" from the stock market. He's dead wrong. https://t.co/rAbOqEvk07
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 11, 2020
Farmers’ hopes for respite from Trump-era struggles fade amid pandemic https://t.co/C27IwyJ4vQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 12, 2020
“Imagine three years ago, you lost 30% of your paycheck and then the next year, you lost another 30%,” says a South Dakota farmer about the losses farmers experienced as a result of U.S.-China trade war. The coronavirus pandemic is adding to those losses. https://t.co/eHBRaYXOi8 pic.twitter.com/8ZPh5hwMFp
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 3, 2020
Trump's farmer trade bailout is already more than 2x the size of the 2009 auto bailout https://t.co/VIzez83uy1
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 21, 2020
Trump announces he plans to redistribute wealth from the American businesses that actually pay tariffs to farmers who are hurt by his trade war, but whose votes are crucial to his reelection hopes https://t.co/pP4nugouGe
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 21, 2020
The Trump administration provided more taxpayer dollars to farmers financially damaged by the administration’s
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 21, 2020
trade policies than the federal government spends each year on CHIP, maintaining America's nuclear arsenal, or the entire State Departmenthttps://t.co/J49Ci84cqh pic.twitter.com/ezbQvL41qv
This year alone, Wisconsin will have lost about 800 dairy farms in a downturn that threatens the vitality of rural communities and the state's flagship industry. @journalsentinel https://t.co/eqp5DhJUJJ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 25, 2019
How are Trump’s farm subsidies being paid for?
Trump has given 30 billion dollars to farmers to compensate them for the costs of a trade war he started.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 15, 2020
I have yet to hear a reporter or interviewer ask the president ‘how are you paying for that?’
Goldman Sachs casts doubt on Phase 1 US China Trade Deal Soybean Purchases: "The $40 billion figure represents a $24 billion (a year and)..an additional $16 billion for at least two years… there would need to be a big increase in soybean exports..https://t.co/khD2EAdk6S
— comparerateskenya.com (@comparerateske1) January 10, 2020
(Reuters) – Days before a US-China trade deal is due to be signed, large Chinese purchases of Brazilian soybeans and a pair of unexpected policy moves by Beijing have dimmed U.S. hopes that China would double its imports of American farm products this yearhttps://t.co/sdy3tMuDbn
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 10, 2020
Trump's trade war (reminder: it didn't address IP theft, currency manipulation & anti-competitive subsidies & hurt our farmers, consumers & manufacturers) pushed China to other markets.
— J.D. Scholten (@JDScholten) December 11, 2019
Brazil will now overtake USA as world’s largest soybean producer. https://t.co/aatxwKxOF0
Trump got into a trade war with China
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) January 11, 2020
China cut U.S. dairy purchases by more than 50%
818 dairy farms in Wisconsin went out of business in 2019. That's 10% of the state's dairies and the largest decline in Wisconsin history https://t.co/hjDDgntZMk
these payments — billed as help for the nation’s ordinary farmers but which go overwhelmingly to small niche of affluent, white large scale producers — are close to the purest form of trumpism https://t.co/UaZgQSxZlr
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) January 11, 2020
HEARTBREAKING: "Amid Trump Tariffs, Farm Bankruptcies And Suicides Rise" https://t.co/Sw53CKqSWl Via @Forbes #Farmers
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 1, 2020
Farmers Got Billions From Taxpayers In 2019, And Hardly Anyone Objected https://t.co/tdsHbeuY7u
— Nada Bakos (@nadabakos) January 1, 2020
And the bailout of farmers, which helped large farms much more than smaller independent farmers is now much greater than auto bailout of crisis. Too late for many as farm bankruptcies have surged and banks in rural areas have closed. That limits access to banking in rural areas https://t.co/4bqSZWvjbV
— Diane Swonk (@DianeSwonk) December 31, 2019
.@MaddowBlog: Farmers’ reality disproves rosy rhetoric from Team Trump.https://t.co/YWzdSayjvd
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 30, 2019
It’s always interesting to see what sorts of government programs face cries of socialism or demands that they be paid for. A $14.5 billion farm bailout doesn’t make the cut.https://t.co/1LQ8Ll1jve
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 30, 2019
Trump and farmers
Trump has shafted farmers with his trade wars but many support him anyway. Could that have something to do with white nationalism?
Farmers were given $32 billion bail-out just last year largely due to the anti-conservative trade war started and lost by @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/CDs4vjEzzt
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) August 16, 2020
Farmers stick with President Trump over trade: "We've gone this far" https://t.co/NLcUdE7yAx pic.twitter.com/Gsmiy5TpXZ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 7, 2019
Half of the Trump administration’s latest trade-war bailout for farmers went to just a 10th of recipients in the program https://t.co/ldqL7oi8vR
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) November 30, 2019
South Dakota farmer Chris Dykshorn took his own life, despondent over what the trade war and flooded fields had done to his family's finances. A chilling, gut-wrenching @anniegowen piece that must be read by all. https://t.co/WeowUpeZX8
— Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) November 9, 2019
Gulp…
— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) October 30, 2019
“Almost 40% of projected farm profit this year will come from trade aid, disaster assistance, federal subsidies and insurance payments, according to the report, based on Department of Agriculture forecasts. That’s $33 billion of a projected $88 billion in income.” https://t.co/xziDPhxoHl
Billionaire West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s farming company took in $121,398 in soybeans subsidies and $3,602 for corn — despite the fact that the median payments for the federal program designed to aid farmers are $6,438 and $152, respectively.https://t.co/Ab6htatHld
— Axios (@axios) October 18, 2019
Make Brazil Great Again?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 10, 2020
Trump administration gives crooked Brazilian meatpacker another taxpayer-funded bailout despite bipartisan outrage https://t.co/IwhCKCOzlv
If you're following along at home, conservatives are supporting a huge bailout for farmers, to offset a trade war, to buy off rural voters… https://t.co/qoT7ajUzDc
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) January 10, 2020
Trump’s bribing farmers who are losing out because of his tariffs
Trump is bribing farmers to make up for the damage he is doing with his tariffs. I wonder what Republicans would do if a Democratic president gave billions of dollars to primarily Democratic groups like women-owned businesses or HBCUs?
"At $28 billion so far, the farm rescue is more than twice as expensive as the 2009 bailout of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, which cost taxpayers $12 billion." https://t.co/nTsH1I6et9 via @BW
— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) September 19, 2019
Size matters. Big U.S. farms get even bigger amid China trade war https://t.co/gBepdToioR pic.twitter.com/ZB79guchvA
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 18, 2019
I told you: Farmers won’t blame Trump. https://t.co/hrG6u3ZSjx
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 10, 2019
Trump-loving farmers don’t blame him for the trade war — and instead think the ‘deep state’ is out to get them https://t.co/0cXPsZ4PRb
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 10, 2019
Farmers are getting bribed with huge bailouts that compensate them for the destruction of their export markets. Businesses are being intimidated by the "exclusion" process that gives some of them a break from tariffs … 2/ pic.twitter.com/t9gVteuuYy
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 10, 2019
The vice president of the North Dakota Farmer's Union, Bob Kuylen, says he lost $400,000 because of Trump's trade war with China. Kuylen says farmers have "pretty much lost all of our markets since Trump took over." https://t.co/jamqfKbQ0H
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 31, 2019
It's heartbreaking to see farmers left behind by @realDonaldTrump. From expanding access to health & mental health care to combatting climate change, there's so much Dems can do to support them. We must make sure these communities are part of our platform https://t.co/kmHW0Ht9Ak
— Grace Meng (@Grace4NY) March 8, 2020
Sad! 