When the Trump administration announced last week that it would be delivering a $12 billion bailout to U.S. farmers screwed by Donald Trump’s various trade wars, President “Tariffs are the greatest” presumably expected an outpouring of gratitude for his show of generosity. Instead, the collective response was, essentially, You can take this bailout and shove it up your orange ass. Rather than flood the White House with thank-you notes, many farm groups panned the aid package as a signal that Trump is unlikely to call off his trade war with China in the near future, meaning that further damage to their livelihoods is on the horizon—particularly if Trump makes good on his threat to slap everything imported from China with tariffs. But being told its ideas are unworkable, self-defeating, and an affront to people with half a brain everywhere has never stopped the Trump administration from implementing them. Because it seems entirely possible that Trump would attempt to solve a problem of his own making by giving all the industries affected by his trade “policies” a bailout, the Chamber of Commerce went ahead and crunched the numbers. And they are not small!

According to the business organization, the bill for extending a bailout to everyone screwed by the president’s ongoing trade wars would come in at $39 billion. The Chamber came up with the figure by comparing the amount of aid given to farmers with the amount of exports affected by the levies, and applying the ratio to other impacted groups. Some industries, like starch and glue, would only require small packages of around $43 million, while auto, motorcycle, and parts manufacturers would need something in the range of $7.6 billion. Obviously, the more trade tensions escalate, the more money would be necessary to bail industries out. “The best way to protect American industries from the damaging consequences of a trade war is to avoid entering into a trade war in the first place,” Neil Bradley, the Chamber’s executive vice president and chief policy officer, said in a statement. “The administration’s focus should be expanding free trade and removing these harmful tariffs, not allocating taxpayer’s money to only marginally ease the suffering for some of the industries feeling the pain of the trade war.” He added that the farm bailout is “a slippery—and costly—slope.”

At present, the White House has not indicated that it would swoop in to offer relief to other groups affected by Trump’s attempt to send the message America is nobody’s fool. At least part of the motivation for the farm bailout was the fear that farmers would punish the president by refusing to help Republicans hang onto the House during November’s midterm elections. There’s also the issue of Trump’s ongoing cognitive impairment, as exhibited during a speech last Friday in which he claimed America is winning respect abroad as a result of the tariffs. His twisted logic suggests he’s not ready to give up on his “easy to win” trade wars any time soon, making the highly unlikely event of a universal bailout just a little bit more plausible.

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