Trump Claims Farmers 'Will Be A Very BIG And FAST Beneficiary' Of China Deal
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Nicole Lafond
December 3, 2018 8:08 am
While he hasnt 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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trusty elf
(7,399 posts)Botany
(70,567 posts)It was called the Cultural Revolution and it killed, tortured, and imprisoned millions.
Farmers, I LOVE YOU!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-grains/harvesting-in-a-trade-war-u-s-crops-rot-as-storage-costs-soar-idUSKCN1NQ0GA
Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar
Mark Weinraub, P.J. Huffstutter
(Reuters) - U.S. farmers finishing their harvests are facing a big problem - where to put the mountain of grain they cannot sell to Chinese buyers.
For Louisiana farmer Richard Fontenot and his neighbors, the solution was a costly one: Let the crops rot.
Fontenot plowed under 1,000 of his 1,700 soybean acres this fall, chopping plants into the dirt instead of harvesting more than $300,000 worth of beans.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)as usual... too late Donnie, that's not the way things work.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)environmental program -- raking the floors of the nation's forests.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)The former was in late '50's until 1962.
The latter came after and ended in 1976 with Mao's death.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Botany =
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Kudlow, Navarro and Moore are either all well past their best before date and as demented as he is, or else they really are trying to set him up for a great fall. Tariffs and tax cuts are not only harming millions of Americans and businesses, but they are also severely damaging American friendships worldwide. And yes, this is making tRump's bestie, Putin, very very happy.
tRump's day of reckoning can't come soon enough.
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)Farmers will get hammered in this deal.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,586 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)the farms -- the ones that will buy at the bankruptcy sales.
(I like presidents that weren't captured alive by the Russians.)
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Botany
(70,567 posts).... other countries. And so China will now have some leverage of American agricultural prices.
aka OK central Iowa soy bean co-op we will start buying from you again but at a lower price.
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)of his lousy bull in the china shop trade management.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/escalation-in-trade-war-comes-at-worse-time-says-iowa-ag-official.html
(random grab of media on this)
The interim relief they're getting is from him undoing the stupid thing he did after everyone warned him of the consequences for farmers.
What he's doing now is what he needed to do before he hurt the farmers: diplomacy and negotiation.
The problem now is he remains an idiot and China will probably clean his clock.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And feeding them another line of BS he knows isn't true. His China deal will prove to be false also.
safeinOhio
(32,714 posts)Ivanka Ag Universty. Online soon.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)Hey Donald, you're not the negotiator you think you are & all the world knows it.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)At least that's what "The Donald" told us after his big "summit" with Kim months ago. When will people learn not to trust a single word that pours from Trump's sewer hole?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,210 posts)And China has found other suppliers.
Roy Rolling
(6,928 posts)Do we get our money back for the $12 billion Trump fuc*up and corporate welfare he doled out?
aggiesal
(8,923 posts)We can return that money to the California Taxpayers.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209015539.html