Ohio soybean farmer who voted for Trump because he's a "can-do guy" is "getting his butt kicked" [View all]

[Miles Archer]

"The effect of the trade war has been very devastating on soybean farmers here,” Ohio soybean farmer Chris Gibbs told CNBC Friday. “We've taken a 20 percent drop in price,"

“What we’re seeing with market action here today only exacerbates the fact that we have lost our number one customer because of the trade wars,” Gibbs said.

Although Gibbs voted for Trump because he’s a “can-do guy” and acted like he could “get things done, and that’s true,” what the Ohio farmer did not realize was that he and others like him would be thrown into a battle they never asked for.

“What we didn’t realize was that we were going to be put on the frontlines of this trade war and demonize our number one customer,” Gibbs said. “I’ve got a cracked pelvis just from getting my butt kicked based on these prices.”

https://www.newsweek.com/farmer-soybean-industry-devastated-tariffs-trump-trade-war-1069593

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/trump-trade-war-china-soybean-farmer.html

Opinion
I Am a Soybean Farmer Hurt by Trump’s Trade War. I Can’t ‘Take It.’
By Christopher Gibbs

In this video Op-Ed, an Ohio farmer and Trump voter, Christopher Gibbs, tells the president how agriculture country really feels about the escalating trade war with China.