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cbabe

(6,630 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2026, 09:39 PM 8 hrs ago

Black farmers shut out of Trump White House farmers event: 'Why can't we be at the table?'

https://thegrio.com/2026/03/27/black-farmers-shut-out-of-trump-white-house-farmers-event-why-cant-we-be-at-the-table/

Black farmers shut out of Trump White House farmers event: ‘Why can’t we be at the table?’

As President Trump hails his administration's efforts to support farmers amid rising costs, Black farmers facing foreclosure continue to get the cold shoulder.

By
GERREN KEITH GAYNOR
MAR 27, 2026

President Donald Trump welcomed hundreds of farmers to the White House on Friday, in what the administration touted as a celebration of agriculture and American farm producers. On the South Lawn, decorated with a massive, obviously Trump-inspired gold tractor, the president hailed the event as the “single largest gathering of American farmers that the White House has ever seen.”

Noticeably missing from the crowd of farmers at the White House were the nation’s Black farmers, who have been repeatedly shut out of meetings and dialogue with the Trump administration, which has simultaneously eliminated several programs intended to address decades-long disparities impacting marginalized farmers at a time when many are facing foreclosures amid continued high costs in farm production, mortgages, and property taxes.

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Black farmers shut out of Trump White House farmers event: 'Why can't we be at the table?' (Original Post) cbabe 8 hrs ago OP
Ah, because he's a racist piece of shit? Chasstev365 8 hrs ago #1
Nope popsdenver 5 hrs ago #10
People of color and women have no seat at his table by design. Deuxcents 8 hrs ago #2
We all know the obvious answer sakabatou 8 hrs ago #3
If there is a photo op,... magicarpet 8 hrs ago #4
Forcing black farmers into foreclosure so his buddies can buy it up cheap. cbabe 8 hrs ago #5
It'd be nice if the white farmers stood in unity with the black farmers. tishaLA 8 hrs ago #6
'Unity'... 'thinking it'd only hurt other people, not them.' Norrrm 5 hrs ago #12
Another disgusting action by The-Racist-In-Chief electric_blue68 7 hrs ago #7
There are white farmers and there are WHITE farmers, White farmers own a hundred or so acres and 200 head of cattle or 3Hotdogs 6 hrs ago #8
Trump is a racist piece of $HIT Trueblue1968 5 hrs ago #9
Because PEDO is letting his Ugly Racism Cha 5 hrs ago #11
And we've got til the end of 2028 to put up with this shit? calimary 5 hrs ago #13
It's So Heartbreaking... Everyday Cha 5 hrs ago #14
That may very well happen. Buddyzbuddy 4 hrs ago #16
Sooner than later. Cha 4 hrs ago #17
Because he's a racist pig and so is rat face Miller. Buddyzbuddy 4 hrs ago #15

magicarpet

(18,495 posts)
4. If there is a photo op,...
Fri Mar 27, 2026, 10:00 PM
8 hrs ago

.... trDUMPie does not want Black people standing near him in the photograph. White racists need to not forget photos are indeed part of the historical record.

Besides his white supremacist voting block would not take too kindly to darker skinned folks around.

How pathetic.

tishaLA

(14,770 posts)
6. It'd be nice if the white farmers stood in unity with the black farmers.
Fri Mar 27, 2026, 10:03 PM
8 hrs ago

It's like the MAGA who get upset that the deportations are hurting their businesses thinking it'd only hurt other people, not them. The white farmers should have learned by now that they're only one capricious decision away from being in the bullseye.

3Hotdogs

(15,349 posts)
8. There are white farmers and there are WHITE farmers, White farmers own a hundred or so acres and 200 head of cattle or
Fri Mar 27, 2026, 11:54 PM
6 hrs ago

whatever.

WHITE farmers get $mega subsidies from the gub'mint. White farmers do not.


So were the farmers at the affair white farmers or WHITE farmers?

calimary

(89,959 posts)
13. And we've got til the end of 2028 to put up with this shit?
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 12:31 AM
5 hrs ago

Approximately two-and-a-half YEARS more…

Cha

(318,946 posts)
14. It's So Heartbreaking... Everyday
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 12:42 AM
5 hrs ago

More to break our Hearts. 💔 ☮️🌻🕯️🕊️💜

And that PEDO Fucker thinks he's gong to stay in that Fascist House until he Croaks

Buddyzbuddy

(2,587 posts)
15. Because he's a racist pig and so is rat face Miller.
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 01:23 AM
4 hrs ago

The most obvious answer is usually the right one.

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