DToften boasts about how terrific he is for farmers. The data show otherwise. Farm bankruptcies rose 46 percent in 2025 from a year prior, and this year the number is expected to be even worse thanks to the Iran war. Farmers have lost core markets for soybeans, as China stopped buying from America and turned instead to Brazil and Argentina. And now, U.S. farmers are having to absorb higher costs for diesel, fertilizer. Their margins are getting hammered thin from both sides. Mass deportations and the cancellation of both domestic and foreign food aid programs have done the same. MAGA