The following article by Eric Boehlert was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 19, 2018:
‘It’s a little bit like weight loss,’ a Trump official said of the huge hits coming to U.S. farmers.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue belittled American farmers on Wednesday.
“It’s a little bit like weight loss,” Perdue said of the tariffs that are damaging the bottom line for lots of red state, U.S. farmers. “It’s going to be good to get there but it is a little painful in the meantime.”
Perdue referred to Trump’s reckless tariffs as “trade disruptions we’re experiencing,” as if they weren’t specifically manufactured and imposed by the Trump administration. His remarks echoed Trump’s dismissive rhetoric about how trade wars are “easy to win.”