Cattle rancher levels 'delusional' Trump over beef price attack
Donald Trump was called out on MSNBC on Saturday morning for his attack on America’s cattle ranchers with one firing back that he has no idea what he is talking about.
Brought on by the hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Craig Bieber, the vice president of the South Dakota Cattleman’s Beef Association, was asked about a post the president wrote on Truth Social.
On Wednesday, Trump wrote, "The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil.”
"If it weren’t for me, they would be doing just as they’ve done for the past 20 years — Terrible!"he continued adding "It would be nice if they would understand that, but they also have to get their prices down, because the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking, also!"
Bieber was asked to respond on Saturday morning.
“I think the president is delusional in the fact that, I mean, he had anything to do with these markets,” he quickly replied. “We were headed into these markets because, you know, we'd had a number of years of tough years with drought. We had eroded the cow herd, and we were going to have a shortage of cattle.”
“Almost everybody in the industry that that was aware, self-aware, knew this was coming,” he elaborated. “And, I just, I don't really feel that the president — the tariffs didn't have anything to do with where we were at from a market standpoint.”
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