Let me guess… Soros?
Goddammit! I’ve been TroubleMaking Pro Bono for years! Nobody told me I could get paid for it! 
Dude… Sonny’s been dead for a while now.
Are you sure he’s not Paul Hewson?
Fun Fact: I was there the day he Fed The Tree.
The right wing nuts stopped caring about Sonny when it turned out he was just another tree hugger.
I know about vegetarian haggis because it was once featured on an episode of Craig Ferguson. It was stuffed into a Tardis and lived on Craig’s desk where he would offer subsequent guests the opportunity to touch it. (Who knew that the haggis would turn out ti be the second most disgusting thing at the desk that night?)
Hey, farmers! Get fucked!
That was, just, I mean I feel kind of embarrassed that it does not particularly offend me or make me feel any empathy for the guy. I suppose it should, but I only groaned.
I think that probably means that there’ll be tariffs on agricultural imports, which will increase farmers’ competitiveness in the domestic market.
Of course, there’s gonna be countervailing duties imposed by other countries that are gonna hurt their competitiveness in export markets, and on the whole it’ll be a net harm to agriculture, but I don’t think that’s what the “truth” is about.
Perhaps in the long term.
In the short term, they are producing a lot of things we already have an ample supply of - we’re a net exporter of staple crops - and not producing things we can get more easily by importing.
That is, prices for some crops may drop precipitously, leaving them to not sell and leave crops rotting or sell at a loss. The things we tend to import are also things farmers can’t switch rapidly to producing - like avocados, other fruits, nuts, and such. Turns out it takes time to grow things. And even longer to grow things at scale.
So, prices for many grocery items will go up, and heartland farmers will get hit hard nonetheless. Telling corn farmers (the US is the world leader in corn exports) to sell more inside the country is more than dumb. We’ve already got plenty. So much so that we turn a lot of it to syrup and put it in everything already. And even turning some of it into ethanol to put in our cars. And good luck growing avocados in Iowa.
I look forward to more Idaho bananas.
What do you mean agricultural products can’t all be interchangeably grown in whatever soil is handy?
ETA: if schadenfreude is all we are left with to enjoy, I intend to savor every last morsel as much as possible.
Takes even longer to retool farms with all the specialized knowledge and equipment to grow things the modern way.
Plus, as others have noted, moving them to the latitude where the crop in question can actually, you know, grow.
Oh, I didn’t mean to say it was a good idea. Just I took @Smapti to be interpreting the Trump quote to be saying that farmers should get ready for tariffs on exports when I’m pretty sure the quote was about tariffs on imports.
That Trump doesn’t understand the concepts of comparative advantage and positive sum trading should go without saying.
With Trump, you can rarely go wrong by taking the stupidest possible interpretation of whatever he says.
China is already planning on retaliation to the 20% increase in tariffs for them.
I’m sure we’ll get news of EU retaliation soon.
Posted in another thread, this column has some of the comments on X to the post by Senator Spineless.
All the farmers need to do is hire a Trump Org.-connected construction company to build bigly luxury greenhouses to grow those Idaho bananas and Iowa avocados.
Oh, wait…where’s the labor going to come from?
Musk’s robots.