During his 2024 campaign for the White House, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to block Chinese nationals and companies from purchasing U.S. farmland as part of his “America First” agenda, and shortly after winning a second term, his Administration moved aggressively to curtail Chinese student visas.
Today, however, President Trump has reversed course on both issues, a development that threatens to isolate many in his base who view China as an existential threat to U.S. sovereignty. Trump’s pivot on the issues was drawn into focus following his visit to Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In an interview on Friday following the diplomatic visit, Trump defended his turnaround, while offering little explanation for his change of heart.
“Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on May 15, defending his plan to approve some 500,000 visas for Chinese students.
In the same interview, Trump defended the Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland, directly contradicting his own campaign speeches in which he vowed to stop Beijing from “buying up our farmland” and warned that foreign ownership threatened American independence.
“Look, it’s not that I love it. You want to see farm prices drop. You want to see farmers lose a lot of money, just take that out of the market. But they’ve had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They bought a lot during the Obama Administration, and he did nothing about it,” Trump said.
thistimelineisweird on
Another thing they voted for.
rlbond86 on
They will never know about it, Fox won’t show it
onceinawhile222 on
Angry but still in his corner. They have joined the cult and even economic pain is not enough to deprogram them from their beliefs.
maxburke on
They should either hold Republican lawmakers responsible or STFU. They won’t.
Straight-Ad6926 on
Make America’s Landlords Great Again.
Brief_Night_9239 on
MAGA supporters won’t abandon Trump. They have turned into a cult. You know like the one in Germany. Got a leader named Adolf…
AcanthisittaNo6653 on
Can I buy farmland in China? No, all Chinese farmland is state owned.
OhioValleyCat on
I can hear some of the family farmers just saying about Trump policies, “Just give them time” and then before they know it, agribusiness and foreign interests have the corner on American agriculture and family farms will be out of business. However, they kept voting to support making themselves extinct because MAGA bogeymans trans, minorities, and immigrants.
MajesticsEleven on
I dont want to hear anything about Trump voter regret unless the main message is that they are going to abandon Trump and vote for a Democrat.
All these stories are just noise. No matter how bad it gets for them you know they’ll just vote Republican.
SoothingWafer on
1. Vote for Trump
or
2. Get everything you want, but you have to hate minorities less.
twobuttonsweatingmeme.gif
curious382 on
Did it? How many were paying attention, much less expressed an opinion?
TreeCitizen on
They will lick his boots in about 3 more days.
cometflight on
“I don’t care about you. I just want your vote.” -this guy 😮
zubuneri on
“If I wasn’t so brain damaged , I’d probably stop supporting him after this” – them probably
KyloRenCadetStimpy on
They bribed him. Of course he reversed
ThePrettyGoodGazoo on
Yea, yea…it angers about 3 voters. The rest will still vote for the GOP because the farm subsidies will keep rolling to buy the rest of the farmers vote. Then, another group of farmers will lose their farms, because it’s not really a big deal. This is a vicious cycle where farmers keep losing their farms and not single person-including the people losing their farms-care. There’s no consequence for their actions and the US taxpayer will pay for their bad choices.
So, good, I hope they lose their farms by the hundreds. They can lose their homes, generational land BECAUSE THEY CHOSE IT THIS WAY. 100% they want this.
sammystevens on
why conquer a country when you can slowly buy it out from under americans
EyeoftheEelpout on
Trump essentially gave Xi permission to invade Taiwan.
So much for spreading freedom over the globe.
I_love_Hobbes on
Farmers are going to bankrupt anyway…
ralpes on
As if this would be discussed in their bubble. It’s more important currently to point out that UK is lost and NYC too.
prologix237 on
Doubt it, they’re probably saying they have always supported this and they stand with their president. Like they do on Epstein files, war on Iran, and every other thing they said they cared about and changed their tune the minute boss baby told them otherwise.
ChillingWithHerb on
This is insane. Especially since we aren’t even allowed to own a lot of technology (NDAA) that is made from China but the government itself can own property here. This guy is selling all sorts of back doors into our national security. Tulsi Gabbard is a verified Russian spy. Like two days ago Trump’s own official said that the CIA raided her home then quickly recanted it. Then all the money Jared Kushner’s made in the Middle East and Trump has him negotiating peace with Iran when he’s as Zionist as you can get. They’re raping the US blind just like they did all those kids in the Epstein files. 65,000 Epstein files were confirmed to be erased in the last couple months.
MagnumAddict on
But never enough to retaliate in the one way that actually counts – their vote.
I_heart_cancer on
This article doesn’t mention anything about how JD Vance invested in AcreTrader through his venture firm Narya Capital, which was also an early backer of the platform. He never divested. And Senate disclosure forms only capture what he was required to report.
The article treats Trump’s reversal as a political mystery. It isn’t. Trump’s own argument accidentally reveals the mechanism: blocking Chinese buyers would drive down land prices. He’s not wrong about that. But the people who need land prices to stay high aren’t farmers. Farmers need income. They need export markets, which the tariffs are destroying. The people who need high land valuations are investors holding stakes in farmland acquisition platforms like AcreTrader.
So the full loop is: tariffs crush farm income and force distressed sales, feeding more inventory into the pipeline. The China reversal props up the underlying asset value. Farmers get squeezed from both directions. The investors collect from both directions.
Trump stumbled into explaining exactly who benefits from his China reversal, without apparently realizing he was doing it.
morbob on
The city slicker screwed the farmers
haysus25 on
Sure they aren’t happy.
But they will still vote for him.
‘WaY BeTtEr ThAn AnY dEmOcRaT!’
kevnmartin on
When aren’t MAGAts angry?
nasorrty346tfrgser on
Then they are not MAGA. the very definition of MAGA is to support whatever Trump said and done.
NeverLookBothWays on
I want out of this abusive relationship by proxy.
charlieondras1 on
No it doesn’t. Maga eats that orange dick.
MJcorrieviewer on
The only good thing about all the destruction Trump is doing is that it *might* teach some of his supporters how foolish they have been, finally.
tomgratz on
Trump’s tariffs killed family farms and now the farmers have to sell to the Chinese to not go bankrupt. Disgusting ! Trump does not care. He’s gone bankrupt several times.
Time_Paws on
He single-handedly sent US farms into default. Although, I remember him doing this during his first term. Too bad the farmers didn’t.
Away-Coffee-9438 on
Luckily, many States have their own prohibitions on foreign ownership of US farmland.
oh-shazbot on
> “Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing,”
now *this* is the trump quote that i want them to use in midterm advertising. his base would *love* to hear that he’s cool with non-white people now /s. or at least he said something that can be construed that way, because who are we kidding – trump is and always will be an unabashed racist.
MourningRIF on
Trump likely agreed to his ideal number once again. China gives him $10B in crypto and they can have the entire country.
chickedychillin on
I’ll say this. A dude who was crazy maga as fuck in my area seems to have changed his mind. He had SEVEN trump flags in his yard/on his fucking roof. He doesn’t have a single Trump flag up anymore and has replaced all of them with regular American flags. That’s been the biggest glimmer of hope I have seen. Not to mention I also hardly ever see any Trump stickers or flags or any kind of signs in my area anymore. So I’m seeing with my own eyes a much less rabid fanbase.
Otherwise_Stable_925 on
Oh no did he do another dumb thing that you *DidN’t VoTe fOr*!?
poplop69 on
Dummies gunna dumdum.
zmunky on
Dude is selling our country and our shit right in front of us and then telling us that it’s America first.
Tony2030 on
No – it’s cool farm dudes. He’s probably getting a HUGE kickback.
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But they will still suck his dick until the end.
From the article:
During his 2024 campaign for the White House, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to block Chinese nationals and companies from purchasing U.S. farmland as part of his “America First” agenda, and shortly after winning a second term, his Administration moved aggressively to curtail Chinese student visas.
Today, however, President Trump has reversed course on both issues, a development that threatens to isolate many in his base who view China as an existential threat to U.S. sovereignty. Trump’s pivot on the issues was drawn into focus following his visit to Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In an interview on Friday following the diplomatic visit, Trump defended his turnaround, while offering little explanation for his change of heart.
“Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on May 15, defending his plan to approve some 500,000 visas for Chinese students.
In the same interview, Trump defended the Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland, directly contradicting his own campaign speeches in which he vowed to stop Beijing from “buying up our farmland” and warned that foreign ownership threatened American independence.
“Look, it’s not that I love it. You want to see farm prices drop. You want to see farmers lose a lot of money, just take that out of the market. But they’ve had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They bought a lot during the Obama Administration, and he did nothing about it,” Trump said.
Another thing they voted for.
They will never know about it, Fox won’t show it
Angry but still in his corner. They have joined the cult and even economic pain is not enough to deprogram them from their beliefs.
They should either hold Republican lawmakers responsible or STFU. They won’t.
Make America’s Landlords Great Again.
MAGA supporters won’t abandon Trump. They have turned into a cult. You know like the one in Germany. Got a leader named Adolf…
Can I buy farmland in China? No, all Chinese farmland is state owned.
I can hear some of the family farmers just saying about Trump policies, “Just give them time” and then before they know it, agribusiness and foreign interests have the corner on American agriculture and family farms will be out of business. However, they kept voting to support making themselves extinct because MAGA bogeymans trans, minorities, and immigrants.
I dont want to hear anything about Trump voter regret unless the main message is that they are going to abandon Trump and vote for a Democrat.
All these stories are just noise. No matter how bad it gets for them you know they’ll just vote Republican.
1. Vote for Trump
or
2. Get everything you want, but you have to hate minorities less.
twobuttonsweatingmeme.gif
Did it? How many were paying attention, much less expressed an opinion?
They will lick his boots in about 3 more days.
“I don’t care about you. I just want your vote.” -this guy 😮
“If I wasn’t so brain damaged , I’d probably stop supporting him after this” – them probably
They bribed him. Of course he reversed
Yea, yea…it angers about 3 voters. The rest will still vote for the GOP because the farm subsidies will keep rolling to buy the rest of the farmers vote. Then, another group of farmers will lose their farms, because it’s not really a big deal. This is a vicious cycle where farmers keep losing their farms and not single person-including the people losing their farms-care. There’s no consequence for their actions and the US taxpayer will pay for their bad choices.
So, good, I hope they lose their farms by the hundreds. They can lose their homes, generational land BECAUSE THEY CHOSE IT THIS WAY. 100% they want this.
why conquer a country when you can slowly buy it out from under americans
Trump essentially gave Xi permission to invade Taiwan.
So much for spreading freedom over the globe.
Farmers are going to bankrupt anyway…
As if this would be discussed in their bubble. It’s more important currently to point out that UK is lost and NYC too.
Doubt it, they’re probably saying they have always supported this and they stand with their president. Like they do on Epstein files, war on Iran, and every other thing they said they cared about and changed their tune the minute boss baby told them otherwise.
This is insane. Especially since we aren’t even allowed to own a lot of technology (NDAA) that is made from China but the government itself can own property here. This guy is selling all sorts of back doors into our national security. Tulsi Gabbard is a verified Russian spy. Like two days ago Trump’s own official said that the CIA raided her home then quickly recanted it. Then all the money Jared Kushner’s made in the Middle East and Trump has him negotiating peace with Iran when he’s as Zionist as you can get. They’re raping the US blind just like they did all those kids in the Epstein files. 65,000 Epstein files were confirmed to be erased in the last couple months.
But never enough to retaliate in the one way that actually counts – their vote.
This article doesn’t mention anything about how JD Vance invested in AcreTrader through his venture firm Narya Capital, which was also an early backer of the platform. He never divested. And Senate disclosure forms only capture what he was required to report.
The article treats Trump’s reversal as a political mystery. It isn’t. Trump’s own argument accidentally reveals the mechanism: blocking Chinese buyers would drive down land prices. He’s not wrong about that. But the people who need land prices to stay high aren’t farmers. Farmers need income. They need export markets, which the tariffs are destroying. The people who need high land valuations are investors holding stakes in farmland acquisition platforms like AcreTrader.
So the full loop is: tariffs crush farm income and force distressed sales, feeding more inventory into the pipeline. The China reversal props up the underlying asset value. Farmers get squeezed from both directions. The investors collect from both directions.
Trump stumbled into explaining exactly who benefits from his China reversal, without apparently realizing he was doing it.
The city slicker screwed the farmers
Sure they aren’t happy.
But they will still vote for him.
‘WaY BeTtEr ThAn AnY dEmOcRaT!’
When aren’t MAGAts angry?
Then they are not MAGA. the very definition of MAGA is to support whatever Trump said and done.
I want out of this abusive relationship by proxy.
No it doesn’t. Maga eats that orange dick.
The only good thing about all the destruction Trump is doing is that it *might* teach some of his supporters how foolish they have been, finally.
Trump’s tariffs killed family farms and now the farmers have to sell to the Chinese to not go bankrupt. Disgusting ! Trump does not care. He’s gone bankrupt several times.
He single-handedly sent US farms into default. Although, I remember him doing this during his first term. Too bad the farmers didn’t.
Luckily, many States have their own prohibitions on foreign ownership of US farmland.
> “Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing,”
now *this* is the trump quote that i want them to use in midterm advertising. his base would *love* to hear that he’s cool with non-white people now /s. or at least he said something that can be construed that way, because who are we kidding – trump is and always will be an unabashed racist.
Trump likely agreed to his ideal number once again. China gives him $10B in crypto and they can have the entire country.
I’ll say this. A dude who was crazy maga as fuck in my area seems to have changed his mind. He had SEVEN trump flags in his yard/on his fucking roof. He doesn’t have a single Trump flag up anymore and has replaced all of them with regular American flags. That’s been the biggest glimmer of hope I have seen. Not to mention I also hardly ever see any Trump stickers or flags or any kind of signs in my area anymore. So I’m seeing with my own eyes a much less rabid fanbase.
Oh no did he do another dumb thing that you *DidN’t VoTe fOr*!?
Dummies gunna dumdum.
Dude is selling our country and our shit right in front of us and then telling us that it’s America first.
No – it’s cool farm dudes. He’s probably getting a HUGE kickback.