Flew to the Farmers, Talked About the Fountains - Trump: Completely Lost Touch With Reali

The president flew to Wisconsin to speak with farmers about agriculture and then spent large parts of his speech talking about something entirely different, his recent efforts to beautify Washington. At length, he explained how he was having the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial and the capital's fountains renovated, showing charts that not everyone in the room could even see. It takes a special kind of skill to show people something they cannot see and speak about something other than what they came for.

A man travels to the people whose votes he seeks and tells them he would rather be sitting at home watching someone else speak. In between came the usual lines. "We love the farmers, we love everything about your state," he told the gathering in a barn in Chippewa Falls, saying his party was the only choice for farmers, that Democratic policies were "just tremendously bad" and "really bad for the farmer." He again assured the audience that the war with Iran would soon end and gasoline prices would fall. Ahead of the November midterms, the White House said he would travel across the country campaigning for Republican candidates. "As they say in the farming business, we had to take care of business," he concluded. The question remains whose business is being taken care of here, because an elected official who tells voters he does not need them has already said everything about his relationship to them.

Behind this appearance stands a reality the president no longer seems able to see, because he has lost contact with it. Under his administration, farmers are suffering losses in the billions, and while he was talking about fountains in Wisconsin, we still had the images from Brookland, Arkansas from our own reporting in mind. They are disturbing, even for us, and revealing at the same time.

Hundreds of farmers, many with deep lines carved by sun and worry, packed into a gymnasium as early as 2025. They step up to the microphone, they speak, they complain, they pray. “I have never been this afraid that my children and grandchildren will no longer be able to take over the farm,” one says. Another describes Trump’s tariffs as the icing on the cake of the perfect storm. What emerges inside the hall is anger and fear, carried by the desperate hope of finally being heard in Washington, and it shifts between devotion and accusation. “Dear God, we are so close to You because we work Your land every single day. We need help,” one farmer pleads.

And it does not stop with losing farms. Agricultural dealers in the region report twenty seven suicides within twenty two months, twelve of them in the last ten weeks alone. That is how deep the despair runs. Maybe the promised money will come, maybe it will not. The farmers no longer believe the president, and out of despair grows anger, also for the sake of the dead. Until then, prayer remains.

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What appeared in Arkansas is appearing across the country. In Iowa, families sit at dinner asking themselves how much longer they can hold on. In Kansas, machinery is being put up for sale that no one can afford to buy anymore. And in Arkansas, multiple crises collide at once, the trade war and inflation, together with natural disasters that flooded fields and destroyed roads and diesel prices that have surged. Above all of this stands a president claiming agriculture is "stronger than ever." The irony is hard to miss, and it is the bitterest kind because it comes at the expense of people who spend all day working the soil and do not know in the evening what comes next.

In the end, the image returns that farmers live every day. Those who sow, reap, and what was sown in Washington, tariffs and promises left unfulfilled, is now being harvested by the farms, and they are harvesting it in loss and in death. The man who flew to Wisconsin and asked what he was even doing there has the answer in front of him without seeing it. He should be there because that is where the people are whose lives his policies are damaging. A president who can no longer recognize that has lost touch with the reality over which he governs and talks about fountains while outside the harvest spoils and the farms die.