White House in a Bind as Soybean Sales to China Plummet to Zero

[Rogue Valley]

White House in a Bind as Soybean Sales to China Plummet to Zero

China, the largest buyer of American soybeans, has not purchased a single shipment since May, according to U.S. data.

www.newsweek.com

9.29.25
A photographer’s snapshot of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the United Nations General Assembly last week revealed a private message that captured the Trump administration’s deepening concern over collapsing U.S. soybean exports to China—a crisis now entangled with a controversial economic bailout of Argentina. “Finally – just a heads up, I’m getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate,” read the message, which appeared to be sent from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine’s [sic] are removing their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.” Rollins added: “On a plane but Scott I can call you when I land.” The photo, taken by Angelina Katsanis for the Associated Press, quickly circulated across social media, particularly in Argentina, where soybean exports have indeed surged in the wake of new economic aid from the U.S.

The missive has also drawn new scrutiny to the Trump administration’s pledge to support Argentina with a possible $20 billion swap line and direct U.S. purchases of government debt. Days after the deal, Chinese importers bought more than a million metric tons of Argentine soybeans just as the American harvest season began. “This is a five-alarm fire for our industry,” said Caleb Ragland, a Kentucky farmer and president of the American Soybean Association, in an interview with the Associated Press. “We’ve had your back, President Trump. We need you to have ours now.”

Trump has your back alright Mr. Ragland. He is sinking a dagger into the backs of US soybean farmers. Trump is who US farmers voted for in November 2024.

Trump is giving $20 billion in US bailout money to Argentina while Argentina is supplying China with cheap soybeans at the expense of our US soybean farmers.

Xi must be laughing his ass off at the stupidity and the perfidity of Donald Trump.

Trump’s Argentina bailout sparks fury among farmers, Republicans

The proposal to provide Argentina billions in financial support has drawn scrutiny from farmers and their Congressional allies.

www.newsweek.com

 

[RedFishBlueFish]

White House in a Bind as Soybean Sales to China Plummet to Zero

China, the largest buyer of American soybeans, has not purchased a single shipment since May, according to U.S. data.

www.newsweek.com

Trump has your back alright Mr. Ragland. He is sinking a dagger into the backs of US soybean farmers. Trump is who US farmers voted for in November 2024.

Trump is giving $20 billion in US bailout money to Argentina while Argentina is supplying China with cheap soybeans at the expense of our US soybean farmers.

Xi must be laughing his ass off at the stupidity and the perfidity of Donald Trump.

Trump’s Argentina bailout sparks fury among farmers, Republicans

The proposal to provide Argentina billions in financial support has drawn scrutiny from farmers and their Congressional allies.

www.newsweek.com

No problem. Trump holds all the purse strings. He'll just take some of the tariff income and give it to farmers in the form of a subsidy. I'm sure that was the plan from the beginning. The stable genius is 4 steps ahead. Is playing 3 dimensional chess while we're playing checkers. /s

 

[RedFishBlueFish]

Trump signals bailout for soybean farmers hit by tariff war link​

“The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being hurt because China is, for ‘negotiating’ reasons only, not buying,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “We’ve made so much money on Tariffs, that we are going to take a small portion of that money, and help our Farmers.”

See? If Trump can just figure out which soybean farmers voted for Harris, he can exclude them. Or maybe exclude all soybean farmers in blue states. Or perhaps he knows this is a lie right now, and will not give the farmers subsidies. Who the *** knows.

 

[Callen]

He'll bail them out but I'm not so sure that will appease them.

 

[Allan]

Xi must be laughing his ass off at the stupidity and the perfidity of Donald Trump.

I doubt Xi is laughing. He more likely feels concern bordering on alarm at the economic chaos Trump is creating.

China is very dependent on a sound American economy to support Chinese economic growth.

The person who is laughing is Putin. He doesn't give a shit about Russia's economy to the point that he'll sacrifice his own country's well being to **** with America. The fact that Trump is such a useful idiot is icing on the cake.

 

[americanwoman]

Lol the Treasury Secretary just happens to leave his phone open with an important message at an assembly with a room full of photographers. How incompetent ( so early this morning and already the 2nd time I had to use that word to describe this administration)

 

[Rogue Valley]

Trump is using US taxpayer dollars to reward foreign countries who cripple our US farmers.

And while Trump is busy today firing even more of our federal workers, he is wiring $2 billion in taxpayer money to Buenos Aires.

He has a special friend there (the far-right populist president Javier Milei).

Trump plans to use shutdown to fire federal workers this week | Fortune

White House Budget Director Russell Vought told lawmakers that some federal will move to terminate workers within one to two days, people familiar said.

fortune.com

 

[RedFishBlueFish]

I doubt Xi is laughing. He more likely feels concern bordering on alarm at the economic chaos Trump is creating.

China is very dependent on a sound American economy to support Chinese economic growth.

The person who is laughing is Putin. He doesn't give a shit about Russia's economy to the point that he'll sacrifice his own country's well being to **** with America. The fact that Trump is such a useful idiot is icing on the cake.

Agree, Xi is too busy to laugh. He's been busy courting all the countries Trump is ****ing over with tariffs and the trade war. He is building a coalition to continue global business while the US is slipping into isolationism (called protectionism by the MAGAs). Assuming we get the Orange Criminal out of office in 3.5 years, it will take us a decade or longer to reestablish our business relationships with our trading partners.

 

[Plasmaball]

I doubt Xi is laughing. He more likely feels concern bordering on alarm at the economic chaos Trump is creating.

China is very dependent on a sound American economy to support Chinese economic growth.

The person who is laughing is Putin. He doesn't give a shit about Russia's economy to the point that he'll sacrifice his own country's well being to **** with America. The fact that Trump is such a useful idiot is icing on the cake.

Remove 2025 and I feel this was the plan trump and putin came up with.

 

[Peacenik]

White House in a Bind as Soybean Sales to China Plummet to Zero

China, the largest buyer of American soybeans, has not purchased a single shipment since May, according to U.S. data.

www.newsweek.com

Trump has your back alright Mr. Ragland. He is sinking a dagger into the backs of US soybean farmers. Trump is who US farmers voted for in November 2024.

Trump is giving $20 billion in US bailout money to Argentina while Argentina is supplying China with cheap soybeans at the expense of our US soybean farmers.

Xi must be laughing his ass off at the stupidity and the perfidity of Donald Trump.

Trump’s Argentina bailout sparks fury among farmers, Republicans

The proposal to provide Argentina billions in financial support has drawn scrutiny from farmers and their Congressional allies.

www.newsweek.com

A team of top experts could have told him this would happen but his court of suck-ups would never dream of telling the king he has no clothes.

He doesn't want actual feedback on any of his crackpot ideas. Then he would look like an idiot. All he wants is pretenders to suck up to him and laud his ideas no matter how foolish. He doesn't want reality. He wants his imaginary child-like Lord of the Flies version.

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

White House in a Bind as Soybean Sales to China Plummet to Zero

China, the largest buyer of American soybeans, has not purchased a single shipment since May, according to U.S. data.

www.newsweek.com

Trump has your back alright Mr. Ragland. He is sinking a dagger into the backs of US soybean farmers. Trump is who US farmers voted for in November 2024.

Trump is giving $20 billion in US bailout money to Argentina while Argentina is supplying China with cheap soybeans at the expense of our US soybean farmers.

Xi must be laughing his ass off at the stupidity and the perfidity of Donald Trump.

Trump’s Argentina bailout sparks fury among farmers, Republicans

The proposal to provide Argentina billions in financial support has drawn scrutiny from farmers and their Congressional allies.

www.newsweek.com

Now THATS winning!!!!!! Trumptard style!!!

 

[dmpi]

The optics look bad but Trump is simply supporting Argentina's currency and preventing it from going into free fall which would be devastating for the whole world and potentially can spread to all of south America. Much like Clinton bailed out Mexico during the peso collapse in 1994 and the Asian currency collapse in 1997. China's doing its part to help by buying up their soybeans and paying Argentina in their own currency. If you want stability in the world's currency markets everyone has to work at it. The American soybean farmer is just a tiny sideshow in a much bigger problem.

 

[Luce]

Trump is giving $20 billion in US bailout money to Argentina while Argentina is supplying China with cheap soybeans at the expense of our US soybean farmers.

AmeRiCA FiRsT

 

[Questerr]

A team of top experts could have told him this would happen but his court of suck-ups would never dream of telling the king he has no clothes.

He doesn't want actual feedback on any of his crackpot ideas. Then he would look like an idiot. All he wants is pretenders to suck up to him and laud his ideas no matter how foolish. He doesn't want reality. He wants his imaginary child-like Lord of the Flies version.

What are you talking about? Noted economist Ron Vara approves of Trump’s tariff policies.

 

[Questerr]

The optics look bad but Trump is simply supporting Argentina's currency and preventing it from going into free fall which would be devastating for the whole world and potentially can spread to all of south America. Much like Clinton bailed out Mexico during the peso collapse in 1994 and the Asian currency collapse in 1997. China's doing its part to help by buying up their soybeans and paying Argentina in their own currency. If you want stability in the world's currency markets everyone has to work at it. The American soybean farmer is just a tiny sideshow in a much bigger problem.

What? That can’t be true. The Right keeps telling us foreign aid is not America First.

 

[Callen]

The optics look bad but Trump is simply supporting Argentina's currency and preventing it from going into free fall which would be devastating for the whole world and potentially can spread to all of south America. Much like Clinton bailed out Mexico during the peso collapse in 1994 and the Asian currency collapse in 1997. China's doing its part to help by buying up their soybeans and paying Argentina in their own currency. If you want stability in the world's currency markets everyone has to work at it. The American soybean farmer is just a tiny sideshow in a much bigger problem.

If you think that is Trump's motivation or XI's for that matter I have as bridge.....

 

[Luce]

Ron Vara

LOL.

I know you know this, but...

Trump adviser Peter Navarro and 'economics expert Ron Vara' are same person, NYT reported in 2019

"Ron Vara" happens to be an anagram of "Navarro."

www.snopes.com

 

[dmpi]

What? That can’t be true. The Right keeps telling us foreign aid is not America First.

It's not just foreign aid. China is trying to take over the American dollar as the world's reserve currency. It's no surprise that these are the very two counties who come out and try to help Argentina. When you're on top , currency stabilization is an obligation.

 

[element94]

White House in a Bind as Soybean Sales to China Plummet to Zero

China, the largest buyer of American soybeans, has not purchased a single shipment since May, according to U.S. data.

www.newsweek.com

Trump has your back alright Mr. Ragland. He is sinking a dagger into the backs of US soybean farmers. Trump is who US farmers voted for in November 2024.

Trump is giving $20 billion in US bailout money to Argentina while Argentina is supplying China with cheap soybeans at the expense of our US soybean farmers.

Xi must be laughing his ass off at the stupidity and the perfidity of Donald Trump.

Trump’s Argentina bailout sparks fury among farmers, Republicans

The proposal to provide Argentina billions in financial support has drawn scrutiny from farmers and their Congressional allies.

www.newsweek.com

Uh oh. What happened to the MIT connection very good brain? It's only good for diabolical crimes.

 

[Questerr]

It's not just foreign aid. China is trying to take over the American dollar as the world's reserve currency. It's no surprise that these are the very two counties who come out and try to help Argentina. When you're on top , currency stabilization is an obligation.

America isn’t on top. Trump is ceding our position to China.

 

[The AntiDonald]

He'll bail them out but I'm not so sure that will appease them.

It won't. So many of them have said they just want to be able to sell their crops and do their jobs. They are not interested in bailouts.

 

[Peacenik]

What are you talking about? Noted economist Ron Vara approves of Trump’s tariff policies.

LOL!

Good one. An imaginary 'expert' to support a nightmare colossal dumb policy.

 

[phoenix2020]

America isn’t on top. Trump is ceding our position to China.

Neither Donald nor @dmpi have an issue with being China's bottom.