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A Commercial: Farmers for Trump
Title: Farmers for Trump.
Intention: to demonstrate that Trump tariffs on China were yet another failed deal, and that he has made American farmers — who are proud of their independence and self-reliance — dependent on him and his policies and the kind of welfare they despise.
Scene: Various cut scenes, sweeping in over soybeans or corn, could be Ashland, Ohio or Ashland, Iowa.
Male narrator: “America was never about one man in the White House”
Scene: Quick cuts: farmer eating breakfast / pulling on boots /walking alongside a cornfield.
Farmer #1: “I used to have to get up early and do the chores, check the fences … but now since the tariffs, I work for Trump.
Scene: farmer standing in a fallow field / cut to men standing in a line outside a bank or land office.
Narrator: Donald Trump gave billions of dollars in bailout money to US farmers and based the American way of life on a bet that his tariffs on China would work. When they didn’t, he gave the farmers even more borrowed bailout money.
Farmer #2: “I don’t consider it Welfare, it’s not like I didn’t do something. There is a lot…
