Trump Says He'll Use Tariff Surplus to Bail Out Farmers Who Are 'Going to be Hurt'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 25th, 2025, 1:09 pm


President Donald Trump promised Thursday to give surplus tariff money to struggling American farmers, who have been harmed by his trade war.

Trump addressed the farmers’ pain during an Oval Office meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

“We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, who are, for a little, going to be hurt until it kicks in — the tariffs kick in to their benefit,” Trump said. “So, we’re going to make sure our farmers are in great shape ’cause we’re taking in a lot of money.”

Trump then repeated a story about finding billions of dollars “on the tariff shelf.” “We’re finding, the other day, it was very interesting — they found $31 billion,” Trump said.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-says-hell-bail-out-farmers-who-are-going-to-be-hurt-with-tariff-surplus/

[unblock]

1. Sounds like a Republican using tax policy to reallocate money.

Shocking.

[Pinback]

33. "Picking winners and losers"

What about those bootstraps? Or are they only for us?

[Ritabert]

2. The fictional tariff surplus?

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[CrispyQ]

9. Trillions, he tweeted a few weeks ago. -nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. About $200 billion in taxes paid 80 percent by US consumers. Tax, no surplus. Mediaite should know better. . . . nt

[Volaris]

45. They should also know that if the SC agrees with the law,

that says all this nonsense he's done is ILLEGAL AS HELL, the US govt has to pay back every tarriff penny they illegally collected.
Surplus, my ass.

They should ALSO also know, the tariffs are the reason the farmers all got fucked on this deal to begin with.

Maybe, they should be reporting on the nature of face-eating leopards, so stupid maga morons stop doing this to themselves.

[PSPS]

59. The supreme court won't block the tariffs. "Unitary executive" and all that, you know.

[Volaris]

60. I dont know, i think stripping congress of an explicit constitutional directive

and handing it to the next Democratic party president is a bridge too far for Roberts and Barret.

I guess we'll see.

[snowybirdie]

3. Surrrrrrrrrre

Awaiting the funds donnie. Know it'll be any day

[Krazy_Kat]

52. Two weeks!

It's always two weeks with him.

[Turbineguy]

4. They found 31 billion they did not know they had.

These clowns are running the government. They can freely admit their incompetence.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. So he says. . . . nt

[Turbineguy]

19. He may have pulled that number from is ass.

The point is they can do that. They use their own names. Everyday trump stays in power is a small victory for him.

[Codifer]

56. You know he did.

He said: "They came back to me the next morning ans said 'sir (sire), we found it on the tariff shelf'"

I do not know if they were big burley mwen with tears in their eyes but when tsf says they called him "sir"..... he is fucking lying.

But we knew that.

[twodogsbarking]

31. Biden leftover money, right?

[Lovie777]

5. Don't hold your breath................

[Dave Bowman]

6. He won't do a damn thing to help anyone but himself.

[calguy]

7. When am I gonna get my DOGE check?

[Volaris]

46. The day after we all stop paying taxes.

[calguy]

49. Thanks.... Good to know

[CrispyQ]

8. Think he bought himself another six months with that statement? Three?

Three puts us right at Christmas.

[Klarkashton]

10. Circular dimwit reasoning.

Explaining the stupidity of what he is doing isn't worth the effort.

[Blue Full Moon]

11. He can bail out us. That tariff tax is paid by us. Free food should be the exchange

[lostincalifornia]

13. And it will be tax payers who will pay for them in the higher prices these tariffs bring. A lot

Of Americans are not the brightest, and believe the sociopath that there is a free lunch.

[twodogsbarking]

15. Trump would be great fertilizer for farm fields.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Almost all those farmers own or run million dollar operations. They are not poor sharecroppers. . . . nt

[rampartd]

24. farmer agribusiness corporate manager,

[Cheezoholic]

30. This is true around here. The small family farm is gone (there were once over 100k here in IN 50 years ago)

One of the things these "farmers" are doing is leasing their land to corporate farm industries who do the actual farming. The ones that run their farm operations around here are, as you said, huge. Gone are the red barns and they are replaced with 100k sq ft buildings holding 10s of millions of dollars worth of machinery and many have their own giant holding/drying silos so they can play the commodities market.

Another thing that is going on is real estate. Indianapolis, like many medium sized or so Midwest cities are now bleeding directly into the farmland and absorbing the once small farming communities around it with suburban sprawl. Many of these large farmers also carry huge lines of credit when needed capable of borrowing millions. I have been seeing a surge over the last 10 years of farmers within an hour or so of downtown blocking out a couple of acres out of say 1k, getting a zone variance for residential and building huge 6,7,8k sq ft multi million dollar monstrosity "castle" like homes and selling them for god knows how much profit. These things are ugly as hell and so out of place. Every one with a 4 car garage, a mini barn, a Kubota to cut the grass, maybe even an acre for a couple of horses for these nickel millionaire fucks who move into them. I mean every city of this size or larger has some bit coin millionaires just salivating to live the lifestyles etc. Average Joes who basically hit the lottery (I personally know one who held on to 30 bitcoin until he retired and bought one of these things for 2 million cash down the road from me). These aren't subdivisions mind you, most of these rural counties have hard zoning laws on how much land must be used for far/grazing/green space in order to qualify for State and Federal tax advantages. This is especially going on in the county to the North of Indy which has the highest concentration of millionaires in the state and is 75% farm land (Home of the Hitler Youth Moms for Liberty flyer).

If I had it to waste and could bet, I'd bet these places will be empty and falling down 10-20 years just like the remnants of the small family farms of yesteryear scattered around the country here. It sickens me to no end and reminds me of modern day feudalism.

[markodochartaigh]

17. Even if he does this it is just raising prices for consumers.

Consumers ultimately pay whatever tariff is not paid by the seller, which is most of the tariff. Then this money paid to the government Trump is going to give to the farmers. And we know that the huge, well-connected corporate farms will get the bulk of the money.

[BaronChocula]

18. It didn't help last time

It won't work this time.

Farm bankruptcies jumped 20% in 2019, even with billions in aid from U.S.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/farm-bankruptcies-jumped-20-percent-in-2019-even-with-billions-in-aid-from-u-s-government/

[travelingthrulife]

62. Even worse this time. Their markets are completely destroyed and not coming back

Trump has pissed off the world so trade will be dismal, tourism demolished.

[Doodley]

20. How humiliating for America to keep on BSing his way out of his failed policies in front of other leaders. .

[twodogsbarking]

21. We should have elected the guy who took Trump's economics tests in college.

[Norrrm]

22. Trump has made farmers into 'takers, not makers'.

[bluestarone]

23. No end to their fucking lies!!

BUYING VOTES here. Help the farmers, because they will SCREAM the loudest.

[Goonch]

25. " ultimately, the farmers are going to be making a fortune. "

[Prairie Gates]

29. Happy Farmer! Glorious Farmer! If you dedicate yourself to MAGA principles and the Five-Year Plan

You will bring riches and prosperity to yourself and to all glorious MAGA people!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[rampartd]

26. how much is bailing out millei?

since argentina is a model conservative economy.

[Strelnikov_]

28. $20B

so far.

[Prairie Gates]

27. Farmers who vote MAGA are lazy and don't want to work

They know that Trump's policies destroy their markets and result in government subsidies. That's what happened the last time and that's what's happening now. It stands to reason that these MAGA farmers knew that they would be and will be bailed out, and voted the way they did because they can't compete on the market and don't want to work. How long do we have to bail out these parasitic, lazy farmers?

[Baitball Blogger]

32. It's a redistribution of wealth from the taxpayers to a core group who probably voted for him.

Not like it hasn't been done before.

[C_U_L8R]

34. Old maga Donald had a grift, e-i-e-i-o

With an oink oink here and an oink oink there

[Midnight Writer]

35. Here I always thought it was Congress' job to determine how we raise money and how we spend money.

Guess that is old-school stuff.

The Republicans in Congress have decided not to do their Constituionally mandated duties.

Instead, they will turn those duties over to Trump and whatever Lunatic-O-the-Day has caught his attention.

[riversedge]

36. So, Trump has a 'tariff shelf" --seems so!! And you can find Billions on it!!......

Wish I had a tariff shelf to check every now and then!!

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-says-hell-bail-out-farmers-who-are-going-to-be-hurt-with-tariff-surplus/

..........Trump then repeated a story about finding billions of dollars “on the tariff shelf.”

“We’re finding, the other day, it was very interesting — they found $31 billion,” Trump said.

They said, “Sir,” I said, “You mean positively, right?” They said, “Yeah, 31 more than we knew. We didn’t know where it came from.” I said, “Check the tariff shelf.” They came back the following morning, they said, “You’re right sir, it came from the tariffs. We’ve never seen anything like this.”

So what we’re going to be doing is taking some money from all of the tariff money that we’re taking and we’re going to be distributing it to all of our farmers, until the tariffs kick in to their benefit. which, ultimately, the farmers are going to be making a fortune. But it’s a process that ultimately has to kick in.

[Hartpi978]

37. Here we go again

During his last term, he bailed out the farmers to the tune of $32 billion, that way they would continue to vote for him. Now he is going to give them another $31 billion. At least this is all in our faces.

[popsdenver]

39. The huge Corporate Agricultural owned farms

always end up getting most of the bail out money, while the family owned farms are going belly up just like he did in his first term..........

[Grins]

38. Define: "surplus tariff money?"

There is no "surplus tariff money" if you are still in debt. The debt holders come before all others.

[colorado_ufo]

40. How was the tariff money supposed to be allocated?

I never heard where the money was going or what it was to be used for. You can't have a surplus if you don't have a goal.

[Botany]

41. You mean the additional money that U.S. consumers paid for foreign products?

Foreign countries, foreign industries, and foreign agricultural producers aren’t paying the
tariffs the American people are paying them.

[Scalded Nun]

42. Hey, Farmers of America. I really fucked you over, didn't I?

But now I can be your hero by fucking over the country with my tariffs , stealing from your fellow Americans, and giving you a pittance.

Ain't I wonderful!!??

[MissouriDem47]

43. TACO's Welfare for Farmers

I thought farmers hate welfare. I guess it depends on who is getting it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. Temporary fix

Once you've lost a customer, it's next to impossible to get them back. Trump was apparently under the impression that China couldn't get soybeans, wheat, etc from ANYWHERE ELSE on the planet. It turns out they were able to get it from Brazil just fine.

Even when the tariffs are removed/reduced, the farmers will have a heck of a time being able to ship to China again.

[NoMoreRepugs]

47. So TARIIFF money paid by US citizens is going to be given to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt? Thank goodness for

Republican stay out of my business credo.......

[orangecrush]

48. More lies

There is and will never be a "tariff surplus"

[Attilatheblond]

50. He will use that money for tax breaks to bail out billionaires who own some farmland

Small, family farmers, who by the way are usually 'incorporated' for many reasons, will be SOL.

[Aviation Pro]

51. Because of course

Got to bail out fellow millionaires.

[OverBurn]

53. tRump, Socialist Scum. Those lazy farmers have boot straps, use em, freeloaders.

[Bluetus]

54. And what legislation allows him to do this?

Since the Congress has no function, let's shut it down and save all those salaries.

[Wiz Imp]

55. There is no Tariff surplus

Revenue taken in by the US Treasury in FY 2025 (includes tariffs) = $4.69 Trillion.

US Spending in FY 2025 $6.66 Trillion.

Surplus = NEGATIVE $1.97 Trillion

Amount added to National debt = $1.97 Trillion

[eringer]

57. CANT DO THIS WITH EO

The convicted felon will need congress to create a new Tariff Superfund to do what he wants to do. NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.
I guess those farmers can now throw away their “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING” hats.
First he took their laborers away and then he destroyed their markets.

[democratsruletheday]

58. "WE FOUND 31 BILLION DOLLARS"....what a fucking door jam this asshole is

can't stand his idiotic ass. BTW, what becomes of all the surplus crops? They won't keep in storage fer crissakes. There have been record yields this season and NO market(s) to sell them to thanks to dumb fuck's non deal with China, historically our biggest Soybean buyer:

https://www.tspr.org/2025-09-25/china-trade-american-soybean-farmers-limited-options-sell-grain

[Blue Dotty]

61. Again, arsonist puts out fire he started to be called a hero, saviour, and get that Nobel Peace Prize

[Emile]

63. Throwing our country deeper in debt.