When did MAGA become Make Argentina Great Again?

On May 19, President Donald Trump’s Department of Agriculture unveiled its alleged "Farmers First" argumentation inaugural with an assertive selling campaign. There was a property league with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, a societal media run promoting the inaugural and a glossy pamphlet trumpeting the hard enactment and dignity of America’s household farmers.

Five months later, America’s farmers are collateral harm successful the administration’s worldwide commercialized war.

The economical concern successful workplace state is progressively dire. In my location authorities of Minnesota, soybean farmers are buckling nether the value of the president’s tariffs, which person decimated their astir important export markets. I sat down with galore of them past period successful Lakeville, Minnesota, to speech astir however tariffs are driving up input costs and putting the compression connected their operations.

President Donald Trump greets Argentinian President Javier Milei astatine the White House, Oct. 14, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Nationally, workplace bankruptcies are up 57% successful 2025 compared to 2024. And with 27% of our nation’s farmers and ranchers relying connected the Affordable Care Act for wellness coverage, excessively galore agrarian Americans volition look skyrocketing healthcare costs erstwhile Republicans fto the ACA taxation credits expire astatine the extremity of the year.

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While farmers upwind down the harvest play without their antecedently reliable customers, similar China, lined up to bargain their product, you’d deliberation the medication mightiness reignite its "Farmers First" agenda. Instead, President Trump is utilizing his powerfulness to boost 1 of our apical cultivation competitors and footwear American farmers portion they’re down. Enter: his $40 cardinal taxpayer-funded bailout to Argentina.

Argentina is the third-largest soybean shaper successful the satellite aft Brazil and the United States. And since President Trump alienated China – the world’s largest purchaser of soybeans – with tariffs, Argentine soybean farmers person efficaciously replaced American farmers.

In October, Argentine farmers sold 2.5 cardinal metric tons of soybeans to China – portion American soybean farmers sold fundamentally zero. In a emblematic year, China buys implicit 50% of U.S.-grown soybeans, generating astir $13 cardinal for U.S. farmers each harvest year. That’s $13 cardinal worthy of soybean exports down the drain.

President Trump is claiming his caller gathering with his "very, precise bully friend," President Xi Jinping of China, who pledged to resume purchases of U.S.-grown soybeans astatine levels past seen nether the Biden administration, is the agleam airy astatine the extremity of a precise achy tunnel. 

After astir a twelvemonth of manufactured situation successful workplace country, the dealmaker-in-chief has secured a vague committedness from China to instrumentality to the presumption quo. And that is if the woody manages to migrate from phantasy to reality. China bought nary of the $200 cardinal successful other U.S. exports that it promised aft striking a "deal" with Trump pursuing his commercialized warfare with China during his archetypal administration.

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America’s farmers are hurting, and tariffs are hiking the outgo of surviving beyond workplace country, too. Year to year, nutrient is up 3%, beef prices are astatine grounds highs, and coffee, with an summation of implicit 19%, is nary longer a inexpensive caffeine fix.

Despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declaring the bailout "mission critical," the president has openly admitted that the American radical volition not payment from his $40 cardinal giveaway to Argentina. And we cognize American farmers surely won’t. Maybe that’s wherefore a bulk of voters disapprove of the administration’s Argentina bailout.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping arsenic they clasp a bilateral gathering astatine Gimhae International Airport successful Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

In fact, the lone radical who volition payment from this bailout are President Trump and his ally, Argentine President Javier Milei, whose corrupt authorities person driven Argentina into an economical crisis. Well, and the Wall Street financiers who placed atrocious bets connected his unstable economy.

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And the president isn’t conscionable bailing retired Argentina’s bankers – he’s bailing retired their workplace sector, too. Recently, the president outraged American ranchers by announcing a program to quadruple Argentine beef imports – throwing cattle markets into turmoil and hitting U.S. cattlemen squarely successful the pocketbook aft years of drought and down markets pushed them to the brink.

If determination is immoderate semblance of information to "Farmers First" – oregon "America First," for that substance – President Trump should extremity his matter with Argentina and absorption connected the Americans struggling present astatine home.

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