in-town pool report #5 - soybeans/China
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- John Bennett
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- Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 2:22PM
Milei presented Trump with a letter about the Middle East agreement in a gold frame. “Thank you very much,” Trump said, calling it “beautiful.”
Trump said the Argentina aid package was meant to “help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can after 20 years of disaster, because it was very successful at one point and it can be again like Venezuela was very, [be] very successful.”
POTUS: “He took over a real mess. So did I take over a mess? I took over a mess by the Biden group. And Obama was he started it, Barack Hussein, Obama started.”
Asked if China was trying to drive a wedge between US and Argentina by purchasing soybeans from Argentina, POTUS replied: “I would say so.”
Of the United Nations: “They killed my teleprompter.” He also noted he threatened to put tariffs on all products from members of BRICCS.
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