Scott Bessent Mocked by Left for Saying He Feels the Pain of Soybean Farmers Because He is One: Net Worth is Over $500m

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 26th, 2025, 3:56 pm


Liberals are taking to social media to call out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for claiming he feels the “pain” of soybean farmers because he’s one of them. ABC News’s Martha Raddatz asked Bessent Sunday about the plight of farmers facing Chinese boycotts on American soybeans due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

“American farmers have really suffered,” Raddatz said Sunday. “Do you see a real light at the end of the tunnel there, they may allow soybeans again?” “Martha, in case you don’t know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too,” Bessent answered.

According to The New York Times, Bessent — a former hedge fund manager whose net worth is estimated to top $500 million — owns as much as $25 million worth of corn and soybean farmland in North Dakota that he rents out to farmers, netting him more than $1 million a year.

Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) wrote, “Bessent is hoping Americans don’t know he’s worth over $500M. He doesn’t know the first thing about the pain farmers are feeling from this administration’s reckless actions.”

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Full headline: Scott Bessent Mocked by Left for Saying He Feels the ‘Pain’ of Soybean Farmers Because He is One: ‘Net Worth is Over $500 Million’

[modrepub]

1. Most Farmers Are Millionaires

At least on paper. And they have enough resources to employ some of the most effective and probably expensive lobbyists out there. And they have their own code in the US bankruptcy laws (Chapter 12).

[BumRushDaShow]

4. There are a pile of black farmers who would disagree

as the USDA still continues to screw them. And then there are issues with the methods for doing assessments - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/29/black-farmers-us-census

[Javaman]

2. You know, I once change the wiper fluid in my car, I'm a mechanic!! nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Bessent used to work for Soros, had a company funded by Soros. Average maga has no clue. . . . nt

[twodogsbarking]

5. So he is at the top of the supply chain.

They don't suffer. Look to the bottom.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

6. Bessent isn't a farmer, he's a landlord.

[Cirsium]

7. Hmmmm

So, if I rented my house to a nuclear physicist that would make me a nuclear physicist, right? Trying to understand how this works...

[Wonder Why]

8. He did not mean soybean farmer. He meant soybean - with a brain to match.

[mdbl]

9. Nice try moron.

These people have no shame.