GOP’s latest beef: Trump’s trade with Argentina over US farmers

Republican influencer Tomi Lahren took to social media several times this week to chastise the administration’s move toward importing beef from Argentina, calling it a betrayal of “our American ranchers” and igniting a wave of viral reaction. In one post she wrote: “PLEASE Mr. President, reconsider your plan to import foreign beef from Argentina. Our AMERICAN ranchers don’t deserve this.”

Why the actual FUCK would we buy Argentinian beef?

Our AMERICAN ranchers are getting crushed already by cheap shit foreign beef imports. The meat packers are already under cutting our AMERICAN producers as it is.

This is an OUTRAGE. #americanbeef #Argentina

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) October 21, 2025

Lahren claimed the threat to U.S. ranchers is dire, arguing: “The meat packers are already undercutting our AMERICAN producers as it is.” Yahoo found critics online, and their argument seems to be that the outrage reveals more about media branding than substance. Beef experts say that Argentina’s beef exports are just a small fraction of U.S. consumption and won’t instantaneously collapse the domestic ranching industry.

This entire conversation about this deal with Argentina traces back to an original post from an American-based farm, pleading with Trump to buy more American beef than lean on the deal with Argentina.

Dear @POTUS Trump,

We love you and support you— but your suggestion to buy beef from Argentina to stabilize beef prices would be an absolute betrayal to the American cattle rancher.

We understand there are larger economic and geopolitical dynamics at play, including countering…

— Meriwether Farms (@MeriwetherFarms) October 20, 2025

Trump’s own online post in response was to explain how committed he was to American farmers.

Lahren’s own profanity-laced response shows where some MAGA voters and media personalities draw their symbolic “line in the sand.” For some, it was ICE deportation raids or Jimmy Kimmel’s temporary suspension. For Marjorie Taylor Greene, it’s been continued inflation, the shutdown and the Epstein files. For Lahren (and beef farmers), this is their, well, beef with Trump. These “lines” are often louder and more visceral than policy memos one might expect from politicians.