Farmers and politicians are feeling chafed by President Donald Trump’s dismissive remarks about U.S. sales to Japan, reports the Billings Gazette.
Speaking at a Pennsylvania factory, Trump said Japan only bought U.S. wheat to make America feel good.
The president described Japan-U.S. trade relations as lopsided, with wheat being the only U.S. product Japan buys, which isn’t true.
“They send us thousands and thousands, millions of cars, we send them wheat. Wheat. That’s not a good deal,” Trump said. “And they don’t even want our wheat. They do it because they want us to at least feel that we’re OK, you know, they do it to make us feel good.”
The National Wheat Growers (NAWG) responded to the president's remarks with the following tweet:
