Trump has never been one for formalities. Instead, he’s going on the attack.
Now an ‘imbecile’ Democrat got utterly devastated by Donald Trump.
Walz Rails Against Trump’s Tariffs as Farmer Woes Escalate
During a Democratic National Committee briefing on Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., unleashed a fierce attack on President Donald Trump, accusing him of favoring an absurd “trade war” at the expense of American agriculture.
The White House swiftly fired back, with spokesman Kush Desai dismissing the critique in an interview with Fox News Digital: “If the American people cared about the opinions of the imbecilic buffoon known as Tim Walz, they wouldn’t have resoundingly rejected him and his cackling running mate on Election Day back in November.”
The clash intensified after Trump proposed slapping a 100% tariff on China effective November 1, amid a fierce economic standoff that ignited on April 2—”Liberation Day”—when the president pushed for balanced global tariff pacts. Walz argued that international rivalry curbs inflation for U.S. consumers, but Trump’s levies on Beijing are jacking up expenses for domestic growers.
“All of those things are at threat because of Donald Trump’s ego,” Walz said. “This is a ridiculous trade war … you couldn’t write this and be more messed up than putting these tariffs on, putting our farmers at risk, our family farms at risk, turning around and bailing out another country and Argentina, who took their markets.”
Soybean Squeeze: China’s Retaliation Hits U.S. Exports Hard
Beijing’s response this spring included a full stop on U.S. soybean imports, a retaliatory jab to bolster its negotiating power by rerouting orders to rivals like Brazil and Argentina. As the planet’s top soybean buyer, China has scooped up 61% of global traded volumes over the past five years, per figures from the American Soybean Association.
Walz hammered the policy for sidelining American exporters from this vital pipeline. “It took decades to establish these markets,” Walz said. “China didn’t just sign one-year contracts with Argentina. They signed some of them for up to a decade long, and it’s going to take us years to get these markets back.”
The administration, however, portrays its “Liberation Day” blueprint as a bold equalizer for uneven international commerce. “President Trump’s trade and tariff policies are resetting decades of America Last, ‘free’ trade policies that decimated American industry and hollowed out American communities,” Desai said in a statement on behalf of the White House. “That includes American farmers being unfairly boxed out of foreign markets, a wrong that President Trump’s historic trade deals with the UK, EU and Japan are correcting.”
Transactional Politics and Walz’s Past China Praise
Walz contended that steady exports underpin rural prosperity, now jeopardized by China’s pivot southward, leaving “all of this at risk.” He portrayed Trump’s approach as self-serving cronyism. “Everything Donald Trump does is transactional,” Walz said. “And unfortunately, that transaction needs to benefit him personally.”
The governor pinned the fix on the GOP, which he branded as betraying its own principles. “My God, this is Republican orthodoxy,” Walz said.
“Free markets lift all boats, allow people to compete, allow them to go. This is capitalism 101. And what we’re getting out of him is a command economy by an authoritarian leader who is picking and choosing winners and losers. And who’s losing is American producers, America’s rural communities and consumers.”
This tirade arrives as Walz eyes a third term in 2026, coinciding with Trump’s fresh return from sealing a Gaza truce that freed the last surviving captives. It also revives scrutiny of Walz’s June remarks, where foreign affairs analysts panned him for suggesting Beijing could emerge as a beacon of ethics after Israeli operations against Iranian nuclear sites and commanders.
“Now, who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement in this? Who holds the moral authority? Who holds the ability to do that? Because we are not seen as a neutral actor, and we maybe never were,” Walz said of the United States’ role in deescalating tensions in the Middle East.
Walz said Americans must face the reality that the “neutral actor” with the “moral authority” to lead negotiations in the Middle East “might be the Chinese.”
