The beef that Trump is importing from Argentina - to rescue his billionaire dictator friend Javier Millei to the tune of $40 billion - is hurting America's beef producers. Due to tariffs and high inflation, beef prices are skyrocketing. And where else but to the weakest link in the chain could the senile demented old geezer go to blame? The American beef producers.
My guess is these carnivores voted for him. But like many other MAGA fans, they are discovering that the MAGA trick was on them. The con man conned them bug time. He needed their dumb votes to get elected, so he told them everything they wanted to hear. But after voting for him and getting him elected, his real agenda became obvious, and it did not include them.
And now they are angry.
Trump's government intervention in the beef market goes against the pillar of Republican ideology: Government should be out of the free market". But Trump is no normal government. His is an abnormal government that has no idea what the hell it is doing. Operating by trial and error, empirically, whiplashing the market with tariff on today, tariff off tomorrow.
Trump is an inexperienced idiot learning on the job. Alternatively, he is an arsonist-fireman: Deliberately ratchet things up to cause a crisis, then step in to solve the crisis and claim victory. I favor the first explanation: Trump is a veteran, viscerally incompetent idiot because he is an illiterate moron, doubled by a gargantuan ego that makes him think he can fix problems by the sole power of his "charm" and determination. So he jumps in headfirst, unprepared, refusing to listen to smarter people.... and then when things don't work, he switches back to the advice given to him by those smarter people for whcih he claims credit.
Wasn't he, out of love for Vladimir Putin, accusing Volodymyr Zelenskyy back in February of starting a third world war? After months of wavering and refusing to admit his own stupidity, Trump is back to where he started from: Everyone was telling him that Putin is dangerous, that Putin is "working" him and taking him for the fool that he is. But he refused to listen.
Now that his charm and determination vahen't made a dent in Putin's warmongering, Donald Dumb has finally learned that it is Putin who is starting as third world war. If the dumb asshole had listened to advisors who are smarter and more educated than him, we could have avoided an entire year of war and thousands of victims.
Worse yet, he still has the gall to claim that he was right all along.
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Trump goes after America’s meat producers over rising prices after failed bid to boost Argentine beef
Andrew Feinberg
Sat, November 8, 2025
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Donald Trump suddenly has a big beef with, well, Big Beef.
After days of being hammered over his failure to lower prices on everyday grocery staples — and just about an hour after being pressed on the matter while sitting next to Hungary’s strongman leader Viktor Orban in the White House — the president unleashed on U.S. meat producers Friday, accusing them of artificially inflating prices and saying he’s ordered a Justice Department probe into the beef industry.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump said he’d asked the Justice Department to “immediately begin an investigation into the Meat Packing Companies” who he claimed “are driving up the price of Beef through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation.”
The president went on to claim that American ranchers were unfairly taking blame for the actions of what he called “Majority Foreign Owned Meat Packers, who artificially inflate prices, and jeopardize the security of our Nation’s food supply.”
“Action must be taken immediately to protect Consumers, combat Illegal Monopolies, and ensure these Corporations are not criminally profiting at the expense of the American People. I am asking the DOJ to act expeditiously,” he added.
He subsequently claimed in a second post that something was “fishy” because “the price of Boxed Beef has gone up” even while cattle prices were stable or falling.
Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday, November 7 (Reuters)
The president’s Friday afternoon rant came weeks after he floated — and quickly abandoned — a plan to have the government purchase Argentine beef in an effort to lower prices and also prop up the Argentine beef sector ahead of last month’s elections in the South American country.
“We would buy some beef from Argentina,” he told reporters during an October 20 media availability on Air Force One en route from Florida to Washington. “If we do that, that will bring our beef prices down.”
US beef prices have been stubbornly high for a variety of reasons, including drought and reduced imports from Mexico because of a flesh-eating pest in cattle herds there, as well as tariffs Trump has placed on beef imports from Brazil to punish the Brazilian government for imprisoning his friend, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, for having attempted a coup to remain in power after losing an election.
But the plan met with swift opposition from the American beef industry as well as Republican senators from cattle-producing states.
One senator, Deb Fisher of Nebraska, said in a statement at the time that the Argentine beef proposal “wasn’t the way” to address high prices.
“Right now, government intervention in the beef market will hurt our cattle ranchers. The U.S. has safe, reliable beef, and it is the one bright spot in our struggling ag economy. Nebraska’s ranchers cannot afford to have the rug pulled out from under them when they’re just getting ahead or simply breaking even,” she said.
Vice President JD Vance was subsequently “bombarded” with questions about President Donald Trump’s new beef deal with Argentina during a lunch with Republican senators last week, leading the VP to reportedly ask if any senators had “questions NOT about beef” at one point.
Trump’s outburst over high beef prices also follows devastating losses for his party’s candidates in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races at the hands of voters who expressed anger over his administration's failure to address rising prices contributing to an ever-higher cost of living in the U.S.
Citing New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill and Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger’s laser-focused campaigns which centered on “affordability” just one year after voters cited higher prices as the reason for returning him to the White House in the 2024 presidential election, Trump complained that the Democrats’ focus on “affordability” was “a con job.”
“The Democrats are good at a few things, cheating on elections and conning people with facts that aren’t true,” said Trump, who then proceeded to rattle off a list of baseless assertions about the prices of this year’s Thanksgiving dinner staples and gasoline, the latter of which he falsely claimed is available to Americans at $2 per gallon.
“Prices are down under the Trump administration, and they're down substantially ... gasoline is way down, and the other big thing is ... inflation is way down ... we did a great job on groceries and affordability. The The only problem is the fake news. You people don't want to report it,” he said.
“The reason I don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows that it's far less expensive under Trump than it was under sleepy Joe Biden and the prices are way down.”
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