Trump’s ag bailout is going to the starving farmers of… Minneapolis?

To the unlettered, Donald Trump’s trade war with China doesn’t seem to fit the technical definition of “winning.” The average consumer will pay an extra $800 this year due to his import taxes on everything from shoes to televisions. And a spooked Wall Street is trading like it hasn’t stopped binging on cocaine and hookers since New Year’s.

Then again, Trump launched his career with a meager $413 million stake from daddy, beginning his meteoric rise to occasionally successful businessman. That’s why he’s president, and you and I are not.

So to lessen the casualties of this war, the president has turned to a tried and true method: the socialist redistribution of $25 billion in taxpayer money to those who need it most, big city executives.

View the complete September 3 article by Pete Kotz on The CityPages website here.