Trump waives tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of ground beef for 90 days
Donald Trump’s decision to flood our grocery stores with foreign-raised beef is another hit to Illinois farmers — it will kill jobs and destroy rural communities here. He needs to reverse course immediately. For those who stand with him, it’s time to rein him in and fix this.
One Autistic Senior Citizen🇨🇦39All the ranchers who voted for trump are in the find out part of their relationship.
graquelz.bsky.social30Are you sure it’s beef that will be imported? He wrote, “ 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef” Why is it only ground beef, why not whole cut beef product? We have every reason to be suspicious. 🤨
Mark Petersen22Farmers voting republican is like Turkeys voting for thanksgiving. They keep voting Trump and keep getting crapped on. at some point Rural America may figure it out.
Reese Ourso12Not to mention the literal shitshow that this means for consumers www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
invinaveritas.bsky.social10Don't worry Governor, since he didn't even name the country, I doubt this deal (like oh so many others) exists outside of his head.
London Reed🫘🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟No Kings🌟🌟🌟9I totally support Governor Pritzker
KennyMack19718Soylent Green in real life. Fuck You Mayo Nation.
Jason Kuznicki8Do we need to buy American? Would tariffs help?
Travandboo7#StayReadyCrew @brat2381.bsky.social Y’all. Please read through the comments on this post. We are not alone in our worry. 😬😬😬
Watchdog Progressive6See this? Not good. For all you folks who get down on farmers.... this is a serious situation. Park your politics and see the bigger picture.
Lorraine Montez5Yo MAGA ranchers loving your FAFO? ‘cause we are! We told you!!
🏳️🌈David Lytle🏳️🌈3Anything to make the carny-in-chief look good (he thinks).
Ernie Johnston2Where is he getting it from Venezuela Argentina we’re and is it inspected?
The Rhythm - @youcangougeaway2You have to look at this through the lens of a guy who eats Big Mac's like they're the core part of the food pyramid.
I Hate Perverts in the White House2Trump’s trying to kill you
🐝 RiderBabe52🐝2DON'T BUY HIS FOREIGN SHIT!
Trump administration every day: Tariffs don’t raise prices. Trump administration today: We’re exempting 300,000 metric tons of ground beef from tariffs in order to lower prices.
Max the cat3And the faithful idiots don’t see their own cognitive dissonance even when it hits them in the wallet
kristinekenyon.bsky.social2Since Trump’s admin won’t tell us where the foreign beef is coming from, and they just started selling wild horses to foreign countries for slaughter, how do we know this new influx of “beef” isn’t horse meat?
Luvthatbeagle2Why are there tariffs on beef? What happened to our cows? What’s next — no chickens?
ingemarknows.bsky.social1Is this the new source? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
kristinekenyon.bsky.social1Where is the beef? bsky.app/profile/ronf...
So, 47 is importing 300,000 tons of cut rate ground beef & ranchers are pissed off but the best part? He won’t say from where this meat is coming. 🤢 iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/08/21/b...
AuntBunny13The benefit of working in grocery distribution is that I know where our beef is sourced. I don't eat a ton of beef, but I won't be eating whatever manbear meat this asshole is selling.
Zee207702🇨🇦🍁🍃🎃🐈⬛10Aug 11… 30,000 from Argentina was recalled…
jeweledskye.bsky.social6we know it's not going to be inspected, don't we?
Huck&Sawyer🙋♀️6Or what the ‘ground meat’ actually is! Absolutely no way!!
BostonBorn26 ☘4It's the wild horses he's going to slaughter.
Shiboof3Good luck with that. Bet it's horse, he's rounding them up for slaughter.
John Wiswell9This is what they've done.
Jayne4Freedom6I'm disgusted and I won't be buying any of this shit. I don't think it will be inspected.
🎣FishingDB🎣6Welp, I guess beef will soon be off the menu.
Hoppalozza3So…Scott Bessent claimed that undocumented immigrants are crossing the southern border with their own cattle, asserting that this has introduced diseases that drove up American beef price…so, what are we calling this?
Steve Okino2"They're importing the cats. They're importing the dogs. They're importing all the pets and passing them off as beef!" 😹
But wait, how's removing a tariff lower the cost of ground beef? Haven't you been telling us over and over that consumers DON'T pay the cost of tariffs? Surely you haven't been lying, Donald Trump. Surely!
Holly 🇨🇦3His supporters still won’t be able to connect the dots.
JustJoan 📎🧷1Googled because I am not an expert. "Economists emphasize that the primary drivers of these soaring prices transcend who is in the White House. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. cattle herd has shrunk to its lowest levels in decades
Annie1👍 I will NOT be eating beef that comes from outside the USA and as long as Trump, GOP MAGA Republicans and minions on his Cabinet, are in power. I do not trust the government and feel certain that at the bottom of this deal is an agreement to enrich the #TrumpCrimeFamily and their minions. 🌊💙
Charles Johnson28The whole thing could be a lie. No way to judge at this point.
CZEdwards23Also: This ain’t much. US Beef *production* has been fairly stable for the last decade at ~27 BILLION pounds/year. (We export around 3 billion pounds) 300K metric tons is 600 million pounds. So this is about 2%, or the amount raised on federal leased BLM land, and/or about 8.5 DAYS of production.
For the few of you out there who don't regularly read Drovers 'Driving the Beef Market' trade publication, here's how this news is going down in cattle country: "Our hair is standing up ... this is not something that we want.” And also this ⤵️
Josh Marshall25three months of a command economy
rickoughta.bsky.social1This will go perfectly with taking SNAP away from millions of people who will not be able to afford any kind of meat whatsoever. Smart, those republicans.
Lea1My family found that this was a great time to cut out beef from our diets. Maybe they shouldn't have trusted a known conman. C'est le vie.
Kat W (she/her)1The only communist party in the US is the Republican party
whats kind of interesting about the tariff relief on ground beef specifically is that the trump white house thinks its okay for all the better cuts of beef to remain expensive as long as they can get ground beef prices down for the poor hogs to make hamburgers with and they're maybe even right
Rd bacon4Counterpoint: hamburgers are all Trump eats.
Shangalar2Like everything else he says, there is a good chance this never even happens. And the media will not bother to follow up.
DrRamblings1It might work…until the ground beef is recalled! The better cuts have less risk of spoilage and contamination bc they aren’t ground and no additives needed. The added processing is the bigger risk.
ErikT1Is up to 300k enough to really impact things?
Thanks be to Trump that all of those out of work ground beef rustlers will finally have more ground beef herds to oversee.
Eric 🇺🇦 🇨🇦12I was today years old when I learned that the consumer doesn’t pay for the tariffs, but if the tariffs are suspended, it saves me 25%
Marty Olliff6🎶Moving to Montana soon, Gonna be a new ground beef tycoon.🎶
CJ_(insubordinate)5They told us tariffs didn't raise prices but, removing tariffs is going to lower prices?
Alan Fisher4Obviously you've never see the majesty of a ground beef roundup, mounds of pink flesh, glistening under the desert sun, slowly inching the way from Santa Fe to Dodge City. The cowboys, riding their skinned horses, singing songs of the old West and picking off pieces of their charges to make stew.
Convolver3Hey, ranchers, how we feeling about this?
Cade Timbers2Yeah that’s not how any of that works. Cows don’t magically grow in 3 months. Cutting the price paid for them while driving up production costs through stupid wars doesn’t really encourage ranchers to expand their herds.
🔥A desperate Trump, looking at a Blue 🌊 wipeout at midterms, craps on a solid voting demo — American ranchers — by importing "300K metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported with no out of quota tariff" at who knows what standards (trust food safety lately?). Good Ranchers responds:
Reese Ourso9Food safety, you say? www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Pam Spaulding5I mean come on, journalists can barely get one outbreak covered before another foodborne illness/contamination is exposed. Lettuce, blueberries, eggs, alfalfa sprouts, jalapenos, guac, pickled goat & chicken (t2m.co/KiNAkFHq)... More to bite Trump in the ass. 🧾 t2m.co/aORcx3zZ
Flaming pile of Blanches malfeasance4Maybe I'm stupid (it's quite possible), but isn't he undercutting American beef ranchers by doing this?
abbydoull.bsky.social3Just remember, he can 💩💩💩 all over them & they’ll still praise him, support him, & vote the way he tells them.
Pam Spaulding3Dear God, is it even beef? It could be anything. Congress must step in bc he's going to kill even more Americans from the proven lack of oversight regarding the food supply. And bc the beef likely won't be labeled, U.S. ranchers will be blamed (another reason to vote D). 📺 bsky.app/profile/ronf...
rosie1972.bsky.social2I bet a lot of those cattle ranchers voted for Trump 🤷🏻♀️ something, something 🐆
Oh, for cryin out loud. We know where Trump’s buying discounted ground beef. His pal Milei in Argentina, right? Who else!!? His buddy owes him 40 billion, right? No inspection, no tariffs. Hmm.
Grandma Janet3Soon you'll check your freezer for listeria. #VoteLikeYourLifeDependsOnIt
nativehorse.bsky.social2I wonder what outbreak of illness this will bring
cheddargram.bsky.social1What Is safe to eat under The Felon’s regime?
Renee Cascada🥄1probably will be their rejected beef
Old Goggles1Yesterday it was reported that horses were being sold for dirt cheap to over seas slaughter houses. Today Trump announces a deal for dirt cheap ground beef from over seas. It’s a grift.
#StayReadyCrew Who else is looking in their freezer & breathing a sigh of relief that our beef stash can outlast this 90 day imported beef bs the orange demon is about to pull? We talked about 90 days of supplies bringing you a peace of mind & well...EXAPMPLE A! www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
Miss Aja43Just to be clear...this is not a post about dunking on folks that don't have a 90 day supply or beef stash. This is a post to celebrate the folks that have been doing the work of getting ready & staying ready for whatever awful this administration throws at us. Peace of mind is priceless!
🐝 thefabulous💛ne5Meeeeeeee 🙋🏻♀️ And I’m making short ribs for mum n dad Sunday. Out of the freezer, and dry-aging in the fridge.
Jack Helmbold4he's not being thoughtful to the struggling families; he's being thoughtful about the upcoming election.
Pragmatic Politic2Beef? Other than a gifted steak a couple of weeks ago, I haven't had beef in months.
Ground beef prices are at a record high, but price increases slowed somewhat in July.
Ifixspinnythings6Odd that removed tariffs cause lower prices yet imposed tariffs do not cause increased prices
Partially.Convinced+4Beef prices are really high, but don’t worry the price is going up more slowly now? I feel much better now @forbes.com.
Lowell Loblaw2now with added screw worm
thepowerdroid.bsky.social1Let's see: if the Muskrat didn't DOGE the screwworm program into oblivion, there just might, just might be enough beef to go around. Of course, all these dipshits in this administration can't put two and two together to see the real problems.
Stallfortime1Just love seeing these farmers get what they voted for. Foreign beef competing with theirs for 25% less.
comfypantswearer.bsky.social1We now live in a command economy driven by the whims and fantasies of a lunatic.
I refuse to allow Trump to blame Biden for his incompetence. The herd did shrink when Biden was president, but the root causes were environmental and market driven, not caused by Biden’s policies. When Biden left Office ground beef was $5.55 a pound. Right now under Trump it’s $6.89 a pound.
www.koolschrankpress.com2Guess how he'll do it: Aug 11, 2026: Nearly 30,000 pounds of raw, frozen beef imported from Argentina has been recalled.
☃️Del🫶🫂💎🦋🐜🏳️⚧️❤️🔥🪽22024 2026 Not AT ALL DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION..........
ElizaHG1Ground beef was $3.89 a pound during Biden and it's now $7.59 thanks to #47. And those prices are typical of the 3 largest grocers in the Detroit area.
1kr5ur43m.bsky.social1AMERICANS VOTE BLUE OR TRUMP WILL RAPE YOU TOO !
