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Donald Trump is now the farmer whisperer, apparently. He knows what they're thinking and feeling and he knows they're all in for trashing their livelihoods and, indeed, their identities for Trump's escalating trade war with China. Here's a couple nuggets from Trump on tensions with China gleaned from the pool report on Monday's cabinet meeting.
They want to hit the farmers because they think it hits me, I wouldn't say that's nice, but I'll tell you our farmers are great patriots. These are great patriots and they understand that they're doing this for the country. And we'll make it up to them and in the end they're going to be much stronger than they are now.
It's not nice when they hit farmers specifically because they think it hits me. That being said we're doing very well on trade and trade deals.
Doing very well ... tell that to America's soybean farmers, among others. Maybe Trump should go on a listening tour in farm country. Wouldn't that be novel—Trump listening to someone besides himself.
Okay, let’s be real—clearly that's never going to happen. Instead, Trump and his White House aides are just going to continue trivializing the plight of anyone who comes out on the losing end of his latest "get tough" whimsy.