A struggling Woodruff County, Arkansas farmer Chris King on Tuesday stood up at a meeting hosted by staffers for Senators Tom Cotton, John Boozman, and Congressman Rick Crawford to say, patehtically, “Mr Trump, you looked at me and said, ‘I love you.’ Mr Trump, I need to see the fruit of your love.” It’s unclear whether this was like a personal experience, as in, King had attended a MAGA rally and Trump had brought him on stage or there was some “Farmers for Trump” event or whatever and some form of that actually happened. Or, more likely, that King had just imagined this.
Later King told K8 News he’s “never been as worried as I am now about whether or not my kids and grandkids will be able to carry on,” adding “I just would like to see somebody help us get our markets back. We need our exports, and we just need to be paid for what we do, and that’s not happening, and we’re in real trouble.” Wait, aren’t unprovoked trade wars fun and easy to win?
Other farmer Scott Brown said he thinks “the tariffs are the ice cream on the cake of a perfect storm. When you try and sell a product, okay, US soybeans leaving New Orleans without the tariff to China are cheaper than Brazilian soybeans, at the current market. But when you put the tariff on top of them, Brazilian beans are cheaper.” Asked what he needs, the socialist welfare queen said “In the short term, they have no choice but to mail us a check. I don’t know a farmer that likes the check program. Nobody wants to take the taxpayer dollars, but nobody wants to go broke, nobody wants to lose everything. Long term, we have to have options, markets, and places to sell our product.”