President Donald Trump’s policies could not be more destructive for rural America—from his attacks on Medicaid, gutting rural health care, and budget cuts that are decimating rural postal service, education, and broadband.

But nothing hits harder than the twin body blows of tariffs and mass deportations of undocumented agricultural laborers.

Not that Trump doesn’t pretend otherwise. “To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States,” he famously posted on his Truth Social back in early March. “Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!”

And every so often, criticisms of his policies seem to filter through to him, like when he posted in mid-June.

Our great Farmers and people in the

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