With rural America starting to see huge financial losses from tariff policies, Trump offers vague aid package to farmers in the heartland

A farmer in a tractor looks down at his field. (Credit: Getty Images)

President Donald Trump is pledging to use tariff revenue to bail out farmers reeling from the impact of the ongoing trade war. 

“We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, who are, for a little while, going to be hurt until the tariffs kick into their benefit,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. “So we’re going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape, because we’re taking in a lot of money.”