Raw Story: Trump-backing farmers vent Trump pride is now 'hopelessness, frustration, anger'

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - Trump-backing farmers vent Trump pride is now 'hopelessness, frustration, anger'

Krystina Alarcon Carroll
May 21, 2025 9:34AM ET

Farmers, who voted for President Donald Trump, are now feeling "helpless, frustrated, and angry" after the administration made cuts to services they rely on, according to the Washington Post.

Vegetable farmers Jacob and Jennifer Thomas have taken more than a 10 percent hit to their bottom line after Trump “abruptly cut $1 billion from two programs that supplied local produce and meat to schools and food banks across the country.”

“The financial insecurity makes my depression worse,” third-generation farmer Jacob Thomas told the Post.

Then, the administration also cut a $8,000 grant, which would have allowed them to build a new greenhouse.

Later, their plans for “a new warehouse and expansion of their farm store are up in the air because of the administration pausing, then unpausing a $750,000 federal agriculture grant,” the Post reports.

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[marble falls]

1. He screwed those same farmers with tariffs on Chinese pork in his last term and the Chinese retaliated ...

... Not a gram of sympathy here at all.

[tanyev]

2. But they got what they voted for. Surely congratulations are in order....

[dalton99a]

3. Reap what you sow

[mn9driver]

4. They say they voted the "lesser of two evils"

They voted their racism instead of keeping their farms. FAFO.

[Clouds Passing]

5. They never learned their lesson from what the Republicans did to them in the 1980s.

They just had to support more billionaire theft of farmland. FAFO idiots!

[Rebl2]

6. Guess what

Thomas family farm, had you voted for Harris, you would not be going through any of this. Can’t feel sorry for them.

[Demovictory9]

7. "For every farmer I've talked to, this has been earth-shattering and life-changing," Bryan Zesiger, a winemaker, told th

“For every farmer I’ve talked to, this has been earth-shattering and life-changing,” Bryan Zesiger, a winemaker, told the Post. “I don’t know what they were supposed to achieve, but from our perspective, you just hurt a lot of people.”

[Demovictory9]

8. "For every farmer I've talked to, this has been earth-shattering and life-changing," Bryan Zesiger, a winemaker, told th

“For every farmer I’ve talked to, this has been earth-shattering and life-changing,” Bryan Zesiger, a winemaker, told the Post. “I don’t know what they were supposed to achieve, but from our perspective, you just hurt a lot of people.”

[Autumn]

9. I'm glad they are miserable. Welcome to the real world welfare queens.

[JI7]

10. These people are so fucking dependent on Government

but the talk about cutting government spending always appeals to them becsuse they don't think of themselves as the ones that benefit. They think of black and brown people they see as unfairly getting things.

[dlilafae]

11. Here's a suggestion to the farmers

Turn off Faux Entertainment, and invest some time researching your candidate choices next time.

[La Coliniere]

12. Farmers are like most of the small business owners I know

They continue to believe that the GOP agenda benefits them when the exact opposite is true. And you can back that up with long term data that proves they do much better under Democratic administrations. Will they ever wake up to the truth?