At a 2018 press conference in New York City, Trump said of American farmers, "I love them, and they voted for me, and they love me. ... And they said, 'We don't care if we get hurt, he's doing the right thing.'"

During his 2025 joint address to Congress, Trump said, "Our new trade policy will also be great for the American farmer -- I love the farmer."

Hardly any sector has suffered from Trump's trade wars more than agriculture. Soybeans were hardest hit.

Before the first trade war in the first Trump administration, China was the biggest foreign market for U.S. soybeans, taking about 30% of total production. Soybean exports to China fell from $12.3 billion in 2017 to $3.1 billion in 2018.

Joe Biden came into office, and exports rose in 2022 to a record $16.4 billion. But farmers didn't

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