Donald Trump’s trade war was ill-advised from the start. Experts virtually all agreed it would do America more harm than good. All the way back in the days immediately after Trump was elected, this is what NBC News had to say about his trade war plans:

"If the U.S. levels punitive tariffs on Chinese goods then, in a worst-case scenario, China can retaliate by leveling similar tariff on U.S. goods," explained Victor Gao, a Chinese international affairs expert who worked as a translator for late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. "That will create a vicious cycle and everyone will be a loser." Many American giants such as Apple, GM and Ford rely on China both for the manufacture of goods at low prices and as a huge consumer market. The likely outcome of disrupting this symbiosis? Higher prices hitting the wallets of blue-collar Americans.

Elsewhere in that article, NBC News specifically mentioned the soybean market, which is one of many segments of our agricultural industries being hit the hardest by Trump’s trade war. Listen to Iowa farmers explain why they’ve had enough.