President Donald Trump hosted farmers and ranchers from across the country for a dinner at the White House Rose Garden on June 25, 2026 — capping a day in which he signed a new executive order on regenerative agriculture, formally requested $11 billion in Congressional aid for farmers struggling with the economic fallout from the Iran war, and disclosed that Iran will be buying American wheat, soybeans, and corn using money the U.S. seized from Tehran. In roughly fifteen minutes of remarks, Trump delivered a sweeping review of his agricultural policy record, took aim at the Biden administration’s trade legacy, and offered a triumphant — and often exaggerated — assessment of his war against Iran, the status of the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. control of Venezuelan oil. The dinner brought together cabinet secretaries, senators, governors, and farm organization leaders in a setting Trump himself renovated: the Rose Garden, which his administration paved with stone to make it usable for large outdoor events. Assistance from Claude AI.
Participants
- President Donald Trump — Host and principal speaker
- Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins — Cabinet official; primary subject of praise for agricultural work
- Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent — Cabinet official; briefly acknowledged
- Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum — Cabinet official; referenced for work on Washington monuments
- Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) — Cabinet official; praised as champion of farmers
- CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz — Federal health administrator
- Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen — State official
- Senator John Boozman (R-AR) — Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman
- Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) — Senator
- Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) — Senator
- Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) — Senator
- Representative Austin Scott (R-GA) — House member
- Representative Celeste Maloy (R-UT) — House member
- Zippy Duvall — President, American Farm Bureau Federation
- American farmers, ranchers, and agricultural producers — Invited guests
- White House press corps — Present but not asked questions; mentioned by Trump disparagingly
Note: No formal press briefing or Q&A session was held. The event consisted entirely of Trump’s prepared and extemporaneous remarks delivered over dinner.
Full Topic Breakdown
The Setting: The Renovated Rose Garden
Trump opened by calling attention to the Rose Garden venue itself — a space his administration transformed from what he described as a perpetually soggy lawn into a paved event space.
“This used to be grass,” he said. “Beautiful grass, but it was useless. You couldn’t stand. It was always wet. You know, this used to be a wetland and the grass was wet. If it rained seven days before, the grass was soaking wet.”
He recalled female reporters holding ruined shoes at outdoor events: “Female reporters would be holding their shoes like this, destroyed, ruined, men too.” The renovation replaced the grass with stone that Trump said “matches the White House,” and he called it “one of the most active places in the White House.” He also mentioned that vandals had recently cut the lining of the nearby reflecting pool with a sharp tool and dumped fertilizer in the water — “these are sick people,” he said, noting they had been apprehended.
Context for general readers: Trump oversaw a controversial renovation of the White House Rose Garden in 2020 during his first term, replacing flower beds with limestone paving. That renovation drew criticism from garden historians and some Republican women who had championed the original plantings by Jacqueline Kennedy. The paved surface enables the events-heavy approach Trump favors.
Tribute to Farmers: “You Built America”
Trump opened with unusually warm remarks about farmers as a constituency — mixing genuine affection with political calculation.
“The country was founded by farmers,” he said. “And 250 years later, you are the growers, the ranchers, the agricultural producers, and you feed the nation and you power the entire world.”
He also referenced his electoral connection frankly: “I think I get about 98% of your vote, at least. We’re trying to figure out who the other 2% were.”
At the close of his remarks, he elevated the language further: “You are the people. You are the very special ones. You’re the chosen ones.”
The Executive Order on Regenerative Agriculture
Earlier in the day, Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office alongside Secretary Rollins and Secretary Kennedy, with four regenerative farmers present.
“Earlier today in the Oval Office, it was my honor to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to accelerate agricultural innovations that give farmers and ranchers the necessary resources to ensure American crops are the healthiest, and the most abundant, and the most affordable,” Trump said.
✅ ACCURATE — The White House and USDA confirmed Trump signed the executive order “Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience” on June 25, 2026 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2026; The White House, 2026a). The order directs the USDA, EPA, and HHS to promote regenerative farming practices, advance precision agriculture technologies, expand public-private partnerships, and accelerate review of alternative pesticide products. Simultaneously, USDA Secretary Rollins announced a final Regenerative Feedstock Rule that creates a voluntary market pathway connecting regenerative farming practices to the biofuel supply chain for corn, soybeans, sorghum, and spring canola — potentially allowing farmers to earn premium prices for existing conservation practices (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2026).
What it means for farmers: “Regenerative agriculture” refers to farming methods that focus on soil health — including cover crops, reduced tillage, and improved grazing management. The EO is framed as entirely voluntary and market-driven, not a mandate. The USDA says roughly 68% of corn farmers and 70% of soybean farmers already use at least one regenerative practice, so the rule primarily creates a mechanism to get paid for what many are already doing (WLT Report, 2026).
Cabinet Officials: Rollins, Bessent, Kennedy, Oz, Burgum
Trump introduced several cabinet members with his characteristic combination of nicknames, praise, and performance.
On Secretary Rollins: “Brooke, good job. You know, eggs, I think were four times higher than they are right now.” He added: “Brooke Rollins has done a fantastic job.”
⚠️ MISLEADING — Egg prices have indeed fallen significantly, but the timeline and cause require context. Retail egg prices peaked in early 2025 — after Trump took office on January 20, 2025 — driven by a devastating outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) that resulted in the depopulation of 50.7 million egg-laying hens (U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service [USDA ERS], 2025). Wholesale prices hit $8.20 per dozen in February 2025. By May 2026, retail egg prices were approximately 35% lower than a year prior, and wholesale prices have collapsed even further (USDA ERS, 2026). The broad direction of the claim is correct — prices are lower than at the peak — but the “four times higher” comparison compares current prices to a crisis peak caused by bird flu, not Biden-era policy. Trump himself acknowledged on Day 1 of his term that he bore no responsibility for the then-surging prices: “I’ve only been here for one day. Give me a break.” The subsequent decline is driven primarily by flock recovery as HPAI cases declined, not administration policy (American Farm Bureau Federation, 2026).
On Secretary Bessent: Trump called him “central casting” and shouted out: “How’s our economy doing, Scott? Pretty good, huh? Right through the roof.”
On Secretary Kennedy: Trump introduced RFK Jr. with mock irony — “just a man that nobody knows, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Nobody has any idea who he is” — drawing laughs. He emphasized Kennedy’s support for farmers: “He just wants people to be healthy and he loves the farmers.”
On Dr. Oz: “CMS administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who’s great, who’s a great man.”
On Secretary Burgum: “He’s helping me with all the fountains and all the statues all over Washington.”
The Biden Record on Trade: The $50 Billion Deficit Claim
Trump spent considerable time contrasting his agricultural trade record with President Biden’s, making several specific claims.
“The Democrats gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country, 48 years to be exact. And they crushed farmers with burdensome restrictions. In my first term, we had an agricultural trade surplus. Biden took that surplus and turned it into a $50 billion agricultural trade deficit.”
He added: “He failed to negotiate a single trade deal on your behalf during a four-year period… in his last year, farm bankruptcy rose to the highest levels ever, more than 55% up.”
⚠️ PARTIALLY ACCURATE — IMPORTANT CONTEXT OMITTED — The agricultural trade deficit claim is real, but the history is more complicated than Trump presented. The U.S. ran a farm trade surplus until 2019 — a deficit that began emerging during Trump’s own first term, as his trade war with China triggered retaliatory tariffs that devastated U.S. soybean exports (Farm Policy News, 2025). The Biden-era deficit did worsen significantly: the Biden administration projected a $50 billion deficit in its final budget forecast (U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 2024; USDA ERS, 2025). Trump’s USDA has noted it is working to reduce that inherited gap.
✅ ACCURATE ON FARM BANKRUPTCIES — The farm bankruptcy figure checks out. U.S. Courts data shows 216 Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies were filed in 2024, up 55% from 2023 — reversing a four-year downward trend (Farm Policy News, 2025; American Farm Bureau Federation, 2025). Multiple factors drove the increase, including declining commodity prices, high interest rates, and elevated farm debt.
ℹ️ CONTEXT ON TRADE DEALS — Trump’s claim that Biden “failed to negotiate a single trade deal” is broadly consistent with the historical record; the Biden administration pursued fewer formal bilateral trade agreements than its predecessors (U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 2024).
The “Death Tax”: Estate Tax Changes in the Big Beautiful Bill
This was one of Trump’s most emotionally charged moments of the evening. He described farmers who were “land rich” being forced to sell or lose the farm to pay estate taxes — and sometimes, in extreme cases, dying by suicide over it.
“A lot of the farmers are cash rich and, uh, in some cases and others are really land rich. And the ones that are land rich were having a little problem. They’d leave their farms and their children would have to go out and borrow a lot of money to pay the estate tax or the death tax and nasty tax, and it would be like 55, 60% in some cases, and they’d end up losing the farm.”
He concluded: “I ended in the Great Big, Beautiful Bill, the death tax on farms and small businesses.”
⚠️ MISLEADING — SIGNIFICANT OVERSTATEMENT — The estate tax (“death tax”) was not eliminated. What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, 2025, actually did was raise the estate tax exemption significantly and make it permanent. The exemption increased from approximately $14 million per individual in 2025 to $15 million per individual (and $30 million per couple), indexed for inflation beginning in 2026 (NC State Extension, 2025; Pierce Atwood, 2025). Without the bill, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act exemptions were set to expire at year-end 2025, reverting to roughly $7 million per person — a $7 million cut in the exemption that would have exposed far more farm estates to taxation.
The bill is genuinely significant for farmers: it protects many more family farms from the estate tax burden, and it addresses the “land rich, cash poor” problem Trump described. But estates above $15 million per individual still owe estate taxes at the 40% rate. The top estate tax rate of 55-60% Trump mentioned is also inaccurate — the current top federal estate tax rate is 40% (IRS, 2026). Trump saying he “ended the death tax” overstates what was accomplished, even though what was accomplished is substantial.
New Markets: The Iran Grain Deal
In the most newsworthy disclosure of the evening, Trump announced that Iran — which the U.S. has been at war with since late February — would begin purchasing American grain using Iranian assets controlled by the U.S.
“We have an expanded market, and that’s called the lovely country of Iran… They’re having a hard time with food and we’re gonna be taking some of their money and we’ll spend it and we’re gonna be buying wheat, soybeans and corn, a lot of it, and that process is gonna be starting pretty soon. It’s gonna be pretty big too.”
ℹ️ PARTIALLY VERIFIABLE — CONTESTED DETAILS — The broad framework is real. Agricultural trade publication Agri-Pulse reported that during U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland the week prior, Vice President JD Vance pushed a proposal to route released Iranian funds into an escrow account designated exclusively for purchasing U.S. corn, soybeans, and wheat (Agri-Pulse, 2026). However, Iranian officials have disputed the U.S.’s role in directing those purchasing decisions, arguing that Iran — not Washington — will decide what it buys (Agri-Pulse, 2026). The U.S. exported only $3.4 million in total agricultural goods to Iran in 2025, including no soybeans, wheat, or corn — meaning any deal would represent a dramatic departure from recent trade patterns. Trump’s characterization of this as a near-certain “big” upcoming market should be read as aspirational at this stage.
China: The $17 Billion Agriculture Deal
Trump touted a major commitment secured during his Beijing summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“China’s committed to purchase at least $17 billion in US agricultural products, in particular soybeans. So I just left President Xi three weeks ago, three or four weeks ago and he’s agreed to purchase $17 billion worth of mostly soybeans and different things, but mostly soybeans.”
✅ LARGELY ACCURATE — China did commit to purchasing at least $17 billion annually in U.S. agricultural products through 2028, per the White House fact sheet from the May 14–16, 2026 summit (The White House, 2026b; NBC New York, 2026; Fortune, 2026). This was confirmed by both the White House and major news organizations.
⚠️ TWO IMPORTANT INACCURACIES — First, the $17 billion commitment is specifically in addition to already-existing soybean purchase commitments made at an earlier October 2025 summit, and it primarily covers beef and poultry, not just soybeans (The White House, 2026b; Al Jazeera, 2026). Trump’s description of it as “mostly soybeans” inverts the structure of the deal. Second, Trump said he “just left President Xi three weeks ago, three or four weeks ago” — but the summit concluded May 16, which is approximately five to six weeks before June 25, not three to four.
Other Export Markets: Australia Beef, Europe Dairy, Ethanol
Trump listed several other trade wins:
“Australia’s now allowing US beef into its market for the first time in more than 25 years.”
⚠️ MISLEADING ON TIMELINE — The U.S. beef ban in Australia dates to 2003 (tied to BSE/mad cow disease concerns), which is approximately 22 to 23 years — not “more than 25.” Additionally, the U.S. technically regained market eligibility in Australia as early as 2019, though non-scientific barriers persisted. Trump did secure the practical market opening in July 2025, and official U.S. beef shipments began ceremonially in late 2025, with broader commercial access in 2026 (DTN Progressive Farmer, 2025; Beef Central, 2026). So Trump gets credit for the breakthrough, but the timeline is somewhat overstated.
On ethanol: Trump claimed credit for saving the ethanol industry by “eliminating unnecessary restrictions on sales of E-15” and pledging to sign year-round E-15 legislation. He credited Senator Marshall with lobbying him on the issue: “Senator Marshall has been calling me all the time, ‘Oh, you gotta save the ethanol.’ So we did.”
✅ ACCURATE — The administration’s supplemental funding request to Congress, sent June 24, includes year-round E-15 authorization. The House passed a standalone E-15 bill in mid-May 2026 on a bipartisan 218–203 vote, though the Senate version of the farm bill has not yet included the language (DTN, 2026; Agri-Pulse, 2026).
On European dairy: “We opened it up because they had it closed.” This is a general reference to ongoing trade negotiations with the European Union over dairy market access — a long-standing dispute. The administration has made some progress in this area, though comprehensive resolution of U.S.-EU agricultural trade barriers remains incomplete.
Waters of the United States / Regulatory Rollback
Trump praised his repeal of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule — an Obama-era EPA regulation that extended federal jurisdiction to many smaller waterways, wetlands, and ditches on farmland.
“I said, ‘I’m gonna be killed by the fake news media with this one.’ I’m destroying the waters of the — think of that, the title. And when I did it, I was surrounded by farmers when I signed it and half of them were crying. They said, ‘You’ve saved our business, sir.’”
✅ ACCURATE — Trump rolled back WOTUS rules in both his first term and has continued deregulatory actions in his second term. Farmers consistently ranked WOTUS among the most burdensome regulations they faced, as it could subject routine farming activities — irrigation ditches, seasonal drainage channels — to EPA permitting requirements.
The $11 Billion Supplemental Aid Request
One of the evening’s most concrete announcements: Trump confirmed the White House had the previous day formally asked Congress for $11 billion in new agricultural relief.
“Yesterday, we also called on Congress to pass a supplemental funding bill that will provide $11 billion in relief towards specialty crops and helping our great agricultural producers rebound from the losses that they had due to the Biden administration’s horrible, horrible rules and regulations.”
✅ ACCURATE ON THE REQUEST ITSELF — The White House Office of Management and Budget did submit a supplemental funding request of $87.6 billion to House Speaker Mike Johnson on June 24, 2026, of which $10 billion was earmarked for row and specialty crop farmers for crops planted in 2026, and an additional $1.1 billion for Florida farmers hit by winter storms (Reuters, 2026; Bloomberg, 2026; DTN, 2026).
⚠️ MISLEADING ON THE CAUSE — Trump attributed the need for relief solely to “the Biden administration’s horrible, horrible rules and regulations.” But the Reuters report reviewing the formal request identified a different primary cause: high fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the Iran war — a conflict Trump himself launched — which disrupted Middle East supply chains and drove up farm input costs (Reuters, 2026). If approved, the $11 billion would bring total direct government payments to farmers in 2026 to approximately $55.4 billion, representing 33% of total farm income — the highest level of direct government farm payments since 2001 (Reuters, 2026).
The Agricultural Trade Deficit: A 42% Reduction Claim
“Now even just in talking here, we’ve reduced the agricultural trade deficit just this year by 42%, opening markets to the American exports and all over the world.”
✅ ACCURATE — This figure aligns with USDA data. USDA projects the agricultural trade deficit will fall from a peak forecast of roughly $50 billion to a projected $29 billion in fiscal year 2026 — a reduction of approximately 42–43% (USDA Under Secretary for Trade Luke Lindberg, via Southeast Agnet, 2026; Fox Business, 2026). The U.S. still runs a deficit, but the trend is moving in a positive direction. The deficit has been driven down primarily by falling imports (import values declined about 11%) and rising exports, aided by new market access deals (DTN, 2026).
The Iran War: Ships, Military, and the Strait
Trump offered his most expansive description of the military campaign against Iran, which began February 28, 2026 with Operation Epic Fury — a joint U.S.-Israeli strike campaign.
“Iran, effectively within a week and a half, we knocked out their entire military, their leadership, their aircraft, their navy, 100-and, they had 159 ships. Within one-and-a-half weeks, they were all at the bottom of the sea.”
❌ FALSE / SIGNIFICANTLY EXAGGERATED — Multiple elements of this claim are inaccurate or grossly overstated.
On the timeline: The Iran conflict did not end in 1.5 weeks. Operation Epic Fury began February 28, 2026. The U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to end the conflict on June 17, 2026 — nearly four months after the initial strikes (Wikipedia, 2026; 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis, Wikipedia, 2026). Active fighting, ship strikes, and contested access to the Strait of Hormuz continued throughout that period, including an attack on a commercial ship just the day before Trump’s dinner (2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis, Wikipedia, 2026).
On the ship count: Trump’s claim of 159 ships destroyed “within a week and a half” does not match the official military record. Early in the conflict, Trump announced the sinking of 9 Iranian naval ships (Military Times, 2026a). By March 7, he claimed 42 ships destroyed (Ynet News, 2026). The “158/159 ships” figure first appeared in a Trump Truth Social post in late April 2026, citing it as a cumulative total months into the conflict — not “within a week and a half” (Al Jazeera, 2026; Al Jazeera, April 13, 2026). Independent fact-checking found the scale of naval destruction Trump claimed was not corroborated by Pentagon statements, which described more limited interdictions (Factually, 2026).
On “their entire military”: The U.S. and Israel significantly degraded Iran’s military capabilities, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and neutralizing large portions of Iran’s air defenses, missile infrastructure, and naval forces. But Iran retained meaningful capabilities throughout the conflict and continued offensive operations, including attacks on U.S. bases and commercial shipping (NPR, 2026; Euronews, 2026; Wikipedia, 2026).
Then Trump said: “The strait is open. Yesterday, they took out 19 million barrels of oil. That’s the most in the history of the strait.”
⚠️ MISLEADING / CONTESTED — The Strait of Hormuz’s status as of June 25, 2026 was actively contested. On June 20, just five days before this dinner, Iran declared the strait closed again, citing Israeli strikes in Lebanon as a ceasefire violation — though the U.S. military disputed that claim (2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis, Wikipedia, 2026). On June 27, JMIC announced a widened route through the strait. On the barrel claim: VP Vance confirmed a single-day record of 16 million barrels on June 21, and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed approximately 20 million barrels transited on another recent day — a record surpassing pre-war volumes (Hormuz Strait Monitor, 2026; CNBC, 2026). Trump’s “19 million barrels” figure is within the range of recent reports. However, calling this “the most in the history of the strait” requires the caveat that the pre-war average was approximately 20 million barrels per day — so the record-level days appear comparable to pre-war norms, not historically unprecedented (EIA, 2025; Britannica, 2026).
Trump also asserted: “They will not have a nuclear weapon. And they’ve agreed to that, 100% agreed to that.”
ℹ️ UNVERIFIABLE — The June 17 MOU between the U.S. and Iran included commitments on nuclear issues, with both Trump and Xi agreeing that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon” (The White House, 2026b). The specifics of Iran’s compliance commitments, IAEA verification mechanisms, and the durability of these agreements remain subjects of ongoing diplomatic negotiation in Switzerland (2026 Iran war, Wikipedia, 2026).
Venezuela: “We Took Over in Less Than One Day”
“We took over Venezuela in less than one day, and the oil is flowing, and we’re getting along with them great.”
⚠️ OVERSIMPLIFIED — On January 3, 2026, the U.S. conducted a military operation that deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and installed an interim government, subsequently taking effective control of Venezuela’s oil export revenues (CNN, 2026; Council on Foreign Relations, 2026). The oil has been flowing — roughly 100 million barrels worth an estimated $8 billion in the first four months (Council on Foreign Relations, 2026). However, the Council on Foreign Relations noted that as of mid-2026, the Trump administration had not publicly disclosed how much oil it sold, how much revenue it collected, or how the funds were used, raising significant transparency concerns (Council on Foreign Relations, 2026). Trump’s statement that “we’re getting along with them great” is at minimum an optimistic framing; Venezuela experienced a deadly 7.5 magnitude earthquake on June 24, just the day before, with Trump confirming U.S. military assistance was being deployed for relief (CNN, 2026).
Economic Claims: $19 Trillion in Investment, 73 Stock Market Records
“It’s potentially, I think we have almost $19 trillion being invested. As an example, Sleepy Joe Biden, his administration, you know what it had? Less than a trillion dollars for four years investment in the country. We have 19.2 trillion for 12 months.”
“The stock market, we’ve had 73 all-time highs in less than a year and a half.”
ℹ️ CONTEXT NEEDED — These figures appear to reference the Trump administration’s running tally of announced corporate investment commitments, which tends to include pledged future investments, not necessarily capital already deployed. Independent economists have noted that such figures can be difficult to verify and are subject to counting methodologies the administration controls. The “73 all-time highs” in the stock market is a separate claim we were unable to independently verify in real time.
The $28 Billion First-Term Payment Reference
“If you remember, last term I got you $28 billion because you were taken advantage of by a lot of countries, including China, and I took $28 billion out of the tariffs and I made you all whole.”
✅ ACCURATE ON AMOUNT — The $28 billion figure refers to the Market Facilitation Program payments in 2018 and 2019, designed to compensate farmers for losses from Chinese retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural exports (Council on Foreign Relations, 2020; ABC News, 2025).
⚠️ MISLEADING ON SOURCE — Trump repeatedly claims the money came “out of the tariffs” — suggesting China paid. In fact, the payments came from the U.S. Treasury via the Commodity Credit Corporation and were ultimately borne by American taxpayers (Council on Foreign Relations, 2020; Fortune, 2020). Those payments consumed over 92% of all tariff revenue collected during the China trade war (Council on Foreign Relations, 2020). Furthermore, the $28 billion compensated farmers for losses caused by Trump’s own first-term tariffs, which triggered the Chinese retaliation (Wikipedia, 2026).
Notable Exchanges and Moments
The “fake news” moment: Trump pointed out the White House press corps clustered at the event: “The fake news, which is around here someplace. There they are. They’re always around someplace, unfortunately.” He invoked them while discussing egg prices, suggesting the media had unfairly blamed him for high prices on his first day in office.
The “some I don’t like” moment: Introducing elected officials, Trump offered this characteristically unvarnished aside: “I won’t introduce all of them. Some of them I don’t like, so I’m not gonna introduce the ones that, and some of them I like a lot.”
The “Dumocrats” explanation: Trump paused to explain his coinage: “I change and then it’s dumb. I use it. I’ll probably always use it until they become reasonable. I’ll use a U instead of an E. It’s very simple. Most people don’t know there’s a B in dumb, so it’s a very simple change. I take out the E and I put in the U and they’re Dumocrats because their policies are so dumb.”
Threatening to fire Rollins: Trump closed with a joke that landed awkwardly: “If she doesn’t do a great job, let me know. I will fire her immediately.” He immediately walked it back: “No, she’s fantastic.”
The autopen reference: In one of his more extended attacks on President Biden, Trump referenced the former president’s reported use of an autopen to sign documents: “We call him the autopen president. And think of it, like 96% of the things he signed, he couldn’t sign his name.”
The King of Saudi Arabia anecdote: Trump claimed the Saudi king told him at a prior meeting: “A year ago, you had a dead country. We never thought you’d come back. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.”
MLA-Style Reference
Factbase. “Remarks: Donald Trump Hosts a Rose Garden Dinner with American Farmers — June 25, 2026.” Factbase, CQ and Roll Call / FiscalNote, 25 June 2026. Accessed 28 June 2026.
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