1/19/20: It’s a slow Sunday in January. Trump spends the morning at his private golf resort in West Palm Beach.
Later, he flies to a rally in Austin, Texas, where he talks to a conference of American farmers and ranchers. Trump touts his new trade deal with China, which he says, will be great for farmers and ranchers.
Trump is slick in picking evidence. He insists these two groups were dying before he took office. In fact, 2016, when Obama was in charge, was a tough year. When we adjust for inflation and subtract $28 billion in bailout money provided by taxpayers – and, really, does anyone in the Trump family pay taxes – then, 2017, 2018 and 2019 would be the second, third and fourth worst years for farmers and ranchers in the last eleven.
So
far, for farmers, having Trump as president, has been about as helpful as an
invasion of stink bugs.
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