MAGA turns on Trump Cabinet official for stunningly tone-deaf celebration: 'Fire her'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

May 17, 2026 10:40AM ET


Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins took to social media Saturday to celebrate a series of new “commitments” from China – namely, the export of American beef, an announcement that came amid U.S. beef prices reaching their highest level in recorded history, sparking a considerable backlash from MAGA-aligned figures.

“Proud to confirm that our deal-maker-in-chief [President Donald Trump] has done it AGAIN!” Rollins said in a statement. “American beef – the best beef in the world! – will be back on the shelves in China soon. They are implementing beef commitments, including resuming imports from 17 states.”. The announcement came just one day after a report from Yahoo Finance that found that beef prices in the United States had eclipsed $7 per pound “for the first time in history,” leaving many conservative or MAGA-aligned figures dumbfounded.

“We just relaxed tariffs on importation of Argentinian beef because the lack of U.S. supply relative to demand was jacking up prices, but now we are going to export the U.S. beef we were told we were short on to China? Make it make sense,” wrote Sean Davis, the co-founder of the conservative magazine The Federalist who was described by The Daily Beast as a “leading MAGA mouthpiece.”

Self-described “America First” Republican and former congressional candidate David Giglio also expressed confusion at Rollins’ announcement given the historic spike in U.S. beef prices. “How about we focus on having affordable beef on the shelves in, I don't know, America???” Giglio wrote in a social media post on X.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/brooke-rollins-2676905733/

[tanyev]

1. Oh, the poor dears. They really thought Trump was going to work for them?

🤨

[AZJonnie]

2. Bless their hearts, they mean well (nt)

[krkaufman]

10. "they mean well"

Data suggests otherwise. They seem largely driven by how much policies will cause suffering for their perceived “enemies.”

[AZJonnie]

15. I was just doing a few more Southern-tinged backhanded compliments was all

Literally, you're totally correct

[Miguelito Loveless]

18. Really?

They meant well by voting for a Child Rapist?

[AZJonnie]

21. I was just using the Southern-inflected back-handed compliment thing (like "the poor dears" is)

"Bless their hearts, they mean well" just kinda go together in the lexicon.

NO they don't mean well!!!

[popsdenver]

12. Yup

Just like the farmers who were/are, getting Whacked over and over.............thank you sir, can I have another one??????????

Farmers, Ranchers, Rural Hospitals, Food Stamps, Medicaid.......hope all of Rural America residents who were instrumental in the votes that put him and Republicans in power, are getting tired of winning..........They thought the Republicans MANTRA, "Bend over America," would only affect Liberals/Dems........

[calimary]

17. Well? Why wouldn't you NOT be able to figure out farmers getting whacked over beef prices?

Reading through this thread finds just more evidence of Trump’s duplicity. You can’t count on ANYTHING he says, OR what any other part of industry hears when he talks. And how much they are or aren’t believing what he says.

Trump lies like the rest by of us breathe! Everything he says has some measure of duplicity or untruth in it. Everything! Seems to me you’re smart ALWAYS to get a second opinion on ANY statement he makes. You’ve seen and heard more than enough by now to know you “take his word for it” at your peril.

[Miguelito Loveless]

19. There was ample evidence

That the Child Rapist lies about everything EXCEPT who he hates. They chose him because he hates who they hate: Women, Blacks, Hispanics, liberals, the poor, the sick, and foreigners.

[Prairie Gates]

3. Looking forward to the next Politico piece on how Trump is "laser-focused on bringing down beef prices"

[Biophilic]

4. So they want it 'to make sense'? Me too, but I'm not silly enough to ask republicans to do that.

I'm not sure they could make sense between the cold and hot water handles on the sink.

[BattleRow]

9. Makes plenty of cents for certain MAGATs.

[Grins]

5. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction..."

She knew this. She knew all this.

[Journeyman]

6. So they get mad at the messenger and not the person responsible for the message . . .

Rollins didn't make this commitment to China. Trump did. If they wish to vent their anger, direct it at the one who caused the foul policy to be instituted, not the simple-minded herald who simply bleated out the latest inanity.

[RussBLib]

7. I'd like to hear Trump try to justify that

uh, stammer stammer, this country was DEAD under Sleepy Joe.

Next question.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[PSPS]

8. None of these proclaimed "deals" ever existed

trump just made up everything he said was accomplished. he just blurts out stuff for domestic consumption. The chinese didn't confirm anything he bloviated about. trump does this all the time. he gets some pomp and circumstance to fluff up his sense of royalty in his mind and then comes away saying how "great" everyone is and that all these "magnificent deals" were made, followed by ... nothing. In the meantime, the foreign leaders, well aware of what he is (they don't get sane-washed reports like the US media spoon feeds us,) just flatters him which triggers trump to make up things that sound good but don't really exist.

[Miguelito Loveless]

20. I am pretty sure China

would be happy to buy US beef knowing that by doing so it would force Americans to pay even higher prices.

[republianmushroom]

11. Let me get this straight,

Were lowering restriction so we can buy South American beef, to lower US consumer prices, while we sell beef to China to keep the price of beef high for the rancher. DUH
Correct, Am I missing something here ?

[Maru Kitteh]

16. Pretty sure you left the big strong man with tears in his eyes out

No, I don’t know where he fits for sure in the story, but there’s always a big strong man with tears in his eyes. Gotta be there somewhere.

[flashman13]

13. There is no sense to anything Trump does.

[James48]

14. Let them eat cake.

They don’t need steaks.