Trump’s Beef

Very interesting what he says about Argentina.  I think part of that beef comes from Brazil, as LULA had to speak to Trump to keep Marco Rubio out of his hair.  Trump would not give that away for nothing.  But nevertheless, Trump says the beef comes from Argentina.  This, dear friends, is a problem.

DD Geopolitcs gives us the background.

Trump is selling out American cattle ranchers to take care of his technozionist colony Argentina.

Trump: “We’ll buy Argentinian beef.”

Reporter: “What about the US farmers who are suffering?”

Trump: “Argentina is fighting for its life. Do you understand me? They’re dying.”

ℹ️The backdrop — Washington had just finalized a $20 billion financial lifeline for Javier Milei’s government, an early Trump ally whose party was facing critical midterm elections. Beef imports were floated as a way to bring down record U.S. grocery prices, with the administration later moving to quadruple the tariff-rate quota on Argentine beef.

American ranchers were furious. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association called it a plan that “creates chaos” while doing nothing for consumers — noting Argentina has sold over $800 million in beef into the U.S. market in five years, against just $7 million going the other way. Farm groups called it a “betrayal of the American rancher.”

And there’s a quality problem Washington isn’t mentioning. In March 2026, Chinese customs suspended a 22-ton shipment of Argentine beef from the ArreBeef plant in Buenos Aires province after detecting chloramphenicol — an antibiotic banned in cattle for human consumption since 1995 over its links to serious blood disorders. Beijing halted further imports from the plant and launched a traceability investigation.

So the product China won’t take is exactly what’s being funneled toward American dinner tables, while American ranchers absorb the hit and Milei gets the bailout.