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... Last week, Trump announced some tariff revenue would go to U.S. farmers, but no details about the amount of aid or how it would be dispersed have been made clear.

Gibbs called Trump's concept "the most ridiculous thing," as he and other farmers are already bearing the brunt of tariffs daily and federal checks would only serve to help them break even " if that.

Importers like John Deere pay a tariff on products to the Treasury, and then farmers purchase those at a higher price point due to the levies, he explained.

"Now, the president of the United States is going to take my money and give it back to me and call it a bailout," he said.

"That's that's just comical." ...

@#1 ... "Now, the president of the United States is going to take my money and give it back to me and call it a bailout," he said. ...

How much tax-payer money might be wasted implementing the program to return tariff money back to the farmers that paid it out in the first place?

... "That's that's just comical." ...

Comical, in a sad way.