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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump outrages farmers by giving 20 billion to Argentina when Argentina supplanted USA as soybean provider to China
Summary1. Trump's stupid tariff war decentivizes China from buying US soybeans
2. Argentina grabs the China market
3. Trump loves Argintina's losing rightwing leader..giving him $20 billion
4. Maga hates bailouts especially to a country that supplanted USA
Trump set to bail out Argentina, irking some in America First camp
I don't think there's too much doubt that President Trump himself personally has instructed Secretary Bessent and the Treasury Department to come to Argentina's aid and support President Milei because President Trump wants to support President Milei, said Douglas Rediker, chairman of International Capital Strategies, which advises institutional investors.
By trying to solve his allys problem, Trump is creating fresh headaches for himself. American farmers, among the presidents most loyal supporters, were outraged this past week when Argentina suspended its 26 percent export tax to encourage China to place a massive order for soybeans even as Washington was preparing to help Milei.
Amid Trumps ongoing tariff war with Beijing, American farmers have seen their once-plentiful Chinese orders drop to zero.
Argentinas success in supplanting them in the Chinese market while receiving U.S. financial help has raised questions about the Trump administrations priorities.
We are uncompetitive in that China market due to government policy. On the other hand, our government gives that financial bailout to a foreign country who in turn makes their prices more competitive and sells into a market that were unable to access, said Caleb Ragland, who grows soybean, wheat and corn on about 4,500 acres of land in Larue County, Kentucky.
Trump set to bail out Argentina, irking some in America First camp https://share.google/6KGmWZ7WvjrO9P4UE

Irish_Dem
(75,383 posts)I wonder if they will learn the lesson any time soon?
Rebl2
(17,017 posts)ananda
(33,342 posts)Oh wait ....
Tetrachloride
(9,009 posts)3auld6phart
(1,631 posts)Not. They are the same ignorant American electorate. Typically love the ignorant slobs, Baker Swaggerts jones, willing to drink the Kool aide.
Kid Berwyn
(22,006 posts)An inferior mob.
BeyondGeography
(40,674 posts)Which, not totally coincidentally, is exporting more soybeans than ever to China.
Trump is a one-man wrecking ball to farmers, 80 percent of whom voted for him.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,360 posts)viva la
(4,316 posts)Where?
Aren't funds supposed to be allocated in the budget by Congress?
MLWR
(568 posts)Deuxcents
(24,180 posts)tanyev
(47,897 posts)
Attilatheblond
(7,336 posts)so they can find an excuse to mow us down.
Blue Owl
(57,416 posts)After Diarrhea Donny done fucked them over like we all knew he would ..
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,360 posts)JI7
(92,704 posts)LuvLoogie
(8,284 posts)Never.
CousinIT
(11,883 posts)popsdenver
(533 posts)are beginning to be thrown under the bus.........Before the election, they should have all wondered what he meant when he said:
"Just vote for me this ONE last time, and you will never need to vote again"...........
The entire 75 Million of them have outgrown their usefulness to the Republican Party............
The Republican Voters and also all the Republican run Corporations put Trump/RepubliCON's in power, and "poopy pants" has now only started screwing both of them over.......... There is a whole, brand new group of Robber Barrons running things folks.......
(As a side note...........The next ones targeted at some point will be the Republican U.S. Senators, the Republican U.S. House members, AND the Republican Supreme Court Justices...........all are so dumb to realize that there is NO Judicial Branch, or Legislative Branch of government in a tyranny/dictatorship..............)
All of the things being done in the shadows, by the 2025 Group, and Steven Miller Inc , are aligning us all, for a Perfect Storm folks............
Baitball Blogger
(50,981 posts)Justice matters.
(8,926 posts)617Blue
(2,024 posts)no_hypocrisy
(53,189 posts)peggysue2
(12,189 posts)The majority of US farmers voted for this maniac who told everyone what he was prepared to do. Now, he's operating the playbook crippling the American agricultural sector while throwing the entire American economy into the toilet.
Surprise?
Only for the willfully blind and deaf.
Justice matters.
(8,926 posts)They don't care he told them he doesn't care about them and all he wants is their votes okay?
peggysue2
(12,189 posts)In fact, he told all the MAGA and 'beautiful Christian' devotees he only needed their vote in 2024. Then they wouldn't need to vote anymore.
Why?
The hidden/not hidden message was that voting would become irrelevant. Once installed, he and his Flying Monkey Brigade had/has no intention of leaving.
Golden Raisin
(4,740 posts)Let's see if farmers stop voting straight down-ballot Republican in future Federal, State and Local elections.
Norrrm
(3,045 posts)
kimbutgar
(26,136 posts)That hes helping Argentina over the American farmers. Those people are too far gone and brainwashed now to realize the truth.
gfarber
(104 posts)Trump backed Milei with great pride,
Sent dollars to help him worldwide.
But farmers are sore
Their China deals? No more!
While Argentinas profits just glide.
Trump tossed Milei a big stack of dough,
Said, "Lets help him put on a show!"
But farmers turned red
"China buys them instead?!"
Now theyre mad in Kentucky corn rows.
To help Milei, Trump wrote a big check,
While his base cried, "What the actual heck?"
"China wont buy our beans,
But theyre buying Argentines?"
Guess America Firsts just a wreck.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,360 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,376 posts)Millions of OUR fucking tax dollars are going to bail out Argentina, while our country is rotting to the core. Hurricane Helene happened a year ago. There are still homes in my neighborhood waiting for repair, and we didn't even get the worst of the damage here. Imagine what it's like in parts of North Carolina, where no help has arrived, at all. But, we can send funds to goddamn Argentina??? What the ever-loving fuck???
Justice matters.
(8,926 posts)Told them the pedophile they elected the first time would do it again.
They refused to believe it.
Fooled them once, shame on them.
Fooled them twice... the leopards were not stuffed yet.
How more stupid and racist do they have to be??
Champp
(2,155 posts)same as regular taxpayers who are not qualified for Republican tax cuts for the rich.
William Seger
(11,835 posts)... only exist if you don't understand the priorities of an obnoxiously self-obsessed malignant narcissist it sure isn't
America First, and I've never seen any evidence that farmers are anywhere on the list.
Initech
(106,415 posts)Let me go find the world's smallest violin!
republianmushroom
(21,479 posts)Seems some people are being educated.
IbogaProject
(5,043 posts)Come on MAGA Farmers time to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. I do feel for any progressive farmers who are caught up in this mess.
evolves
(5,646 posts)N/T
DFW
(59,011 posts)My guess is some percentage hovering somewhere around zero.
They'd vote for him again in a heartbeat. Democrats, in their eyes, are for abortion (not choice, but abortion), soshalists, they are libbruls, supportive of the Constitution, and anti-American in general.
They listen to National Hate Radio and Fox Noise by choice, and disbelieve everything else. If they go bankrupt, it is the fault of George Soros, Adam Schiff and Hakeem Jeffries (he's a POC, you know!).
You could have Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, and Eric Swalwell show up at a failing farm with overalls, free labor and ten million dollars in cash, and they'd tell the trio of "libbruls" to get lost, claiming that their votes are "not for sale." They refuse to acknowledge that they had sold their votes long ago, and gotten nothing in return.