Trump Claims Farmers 'Will Be A Very BIG And FAST Beneficiary' Of China Deal

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Nicole Lafond

December 3, 2018 8:08 am

While he hasn’t 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]

1. Please let this assh*le be removed from office soon!

[Botany]

2. Didn't Chairman Mao have "a great leap forward" in the late 1960s?

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]

4. Maybe Mr. Fontenot can unplow his field...

as usual... too late Donnie, that's not the way things work.

[NCjack]

16. Mr. Fontenot can get a job in the new Trump

environmental program -- raking the floors of the nation's forests.

[pangaia]

10. The GREAT LEAP FORWARD anf the CULTURAL REVOLUTION were not the same thing.

The former was in late '50's until 1962.
The latter came after and ended in 1976 with Mao's death.

[Botany]

12. thanx! I stand corrected

Botany =

[luvtheGWN]

13. Sometimes I think tRump's advisors are setting him up.....

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]

3. Trumpspeak translation:

Farmers will get hammered in this deal.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. The problem is, the fields HAVE been leveled, and the crops have gone to waste. NT

[NCjack]

15. The Orange Menace is speaking to the new owners of

the farms -- the ones that will buy at the bankruptcy sales.

(I like presidents that weren't captured alive by the Russians.)

[dalton99a]

6. Farmers, start raking

[Botany]

7. And now the world's biggest market for agricultural products, China, is now buying from ....

.... 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]

8. Yep. Genius move

[Jarqui]

9. The recent suffering farmers have been experiencing is the direct result

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]

11. China will clean Americans' clocks !

[duforsure]

14. HE's just lying to them again

And feeding them another line of BS he knows isn't true. His China deal will prove to be false also.

[safeinOhio]

17. New school for farmers

Ivanka Ag Universty. Online soon.

[CrispyQ]

18. "...if and when a deal is completed."

Hey Donald, you're not the negotiator you think you are & all the world knows it.

[SergeStorms]

19. And Kim has already dismantled his nuclear capability, right?

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. The unpurchased crops have already rotted

And China has found other suppliers.

[Roy Rolling]

21. $12 billion

Do we get our money back for the $12 billion Trump fuc*up and corporate welfare he doled out?

[aggiesal]

22. Good, then the $12B farmer bailout is no longer needed ...

We can return that money to the California Taxpayers.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209015539.html