Trump goes after America's meat producers over rising prices after failed bid to boost Argentine beef [View all]

Earlier DU thread: Trump thinks meat packers set the price of beef

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Source: The Independent

Trump goes after America’s meat producers over rising prices after failed bid to boost Argentine beef

Truth Social rant comes after days of being pressed over his failure to lower grocery prices

Andrew Feinberg
in Washington, D.C.
Friday 07 November 2025 22:24 GMT

Donald Trump suddenly has a big beef with, well, Big Beef.

After days of being hammered over his failure to lower prices on everyday grocery staples — and just about an hour after being pressed on the matter while sitting next to Hungary’s strongman leader Viktor Orban in the White House — the president unleashed on U.S. meat producers Friday, accusing them of artificially inflating prices and saying he’s ordered a Justice Department probe into the beef industry.

Writing on Truth Social, Trump said he’d asked the Justice Department to “immediately begin an investigation into the Meat Packing Companies” who he claimed “are driving up the price of Beef through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation.”

The president went on to claim that American ranchers were unfairly taking blame for the actions of what he called “Majority Foreign Owned Meat Packers, who artificially inflate prices, and jeopardize the security of our Nation’s food supply.”

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-argentina-beef-deal-meat-industry-b2861149.html

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-goes-meat-packing-industry-211926687.html

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It's always the dang furriners...

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