I had a really interesting thing happen today….

I received two separate and totally unrelated emails from two readers both asking very similar questions.

Each email started off by saying “I’m a big Trump supporter, voted for him 3 times, still support him in a big way, BUT…..how do I answer [THIS CHALLENGE] from liberal friends or family members?”

The first one asked how I can defend or explain how President Trump importing beef to the USA is “America First”?  It sells out our farmers.

The second one said I’m being told that the reason we have an outbreak of disease tied to the lettuce is because Trump cut all the regulators and food inspectors so it’s his fault this happened.

Ok, let’s discuss both of those because I think they’re great questions, I think they come from a good place, and I DO want to give you answers!  Because there aren’t just hand-waving explanations or flippant little catchphrases I can give you, there are real and valid and nuanced answers that deserve to be explained.

So let’s break both of these down….

I’ll start with #1: How can I possibly defend President Trump selling out our American ranchers!  How dare you Noah!

The answer here applies not just to American ranchers and beef, the answer here explains why President Trump is doing so many things he’s doing in these first two years.

In general, President Trump has two different things he can do to fix all of the problems in America….

Option 1: Deep structural repairs and rebuilding to fix the problems at the core, not just paper over them.  Treat and fix the core problem, not just the symptoms.

Pros: Long-lasting fixes that will last for decades and far outlast his Presidency.

Cons: Expensive. Unpopular in the short-term. Takes a long time and he only has 4 years.

Option 2: Band-aid, surface-level fixes that deliver quick results, but no real structural change and easily undone once he’s out of office.

Pros: Quick help and relief to the American people.  Fast. Easily observable.

Cons: Easily unwound, no long-lasting impact.  Surface level sugar high.

So….which option is President Trump choosing?

That’s the thing, he’s doing both!

And you have to watch the moves he’s making and see which moves fit into which bucket to really understand why he’s doing some of the things he’s doing.

Let’s start with this one: “But Noahhhhhh, Trump campaigned on no new wars!  Look what he’s doing!”

That question wasn’t one of the two asked, but it might as well be the third.

Understand which bucket this is.

South America has been a huge problem with drugs and cartels and “migrants” overwhelming our borders.  Not to mention the very real possibility that it may soon come out that Venezuela might have played a big role in hacking our 2020 election.

Also, Venezuela was deeply tied to Iranian oil.  The two countries had a huge petroleum-supply swap relationship:  Iran supplied Venezuela with gasoline, refinery equipment, crude and especially condensate, which Venezuela desperately needed to dilute its extremely heavy Orinoco crude. In return, Venezuela shipped heavy crude, fuel oil and at times jet fuel to Iranian state companies.

President Trump wanted to cut off that relationship to weaken Iran before he ever took any action with Iran.  So he removed Maduro in one of the most brilliant and overwhelming raids of all time, now essentially runs that country, we now have all the petroleum that used to swap with Iran, Iran got completely cut off, power is centralized in the Western Hemisphere and not only that but we now significantly shored up the Southern part of the Western Hemisphere.

And between Trump, Milei and Bukele, we’re slowly and deeply and methodically cleaning up the remaining corruption, gang-bangers and other mess that had been festering for decades.

Still to come is fully retaking control over the Panama Canal and shoring up the Mexican side of the border.  But mark it down, that will still come.  Also, Greenland.

So understand all of that is Bucket 1.

Deep, structural system changes that will radiate out and pay dividends for decades if not centuries to come.

My whole life all I’ve heard about is we can’t ever touch Iran because then we’ll be in WW3 with China and Russia, but because President Trump laid such deep structural work first in Venezuela and elsewhere, Iran has been almost entirely neutralized and will take decades to recover — if ever.

Folks, what he has done in less than two years is nothing less than absolutely astounding.

And let’s just address “But he said no new wars!”

Right.

And the part people (not you, but Liberals) are too stupid to understand is that these countries have been actively at war with the United States for decades!

Sure, not openly declared war with uniforms and flanks of military men storming our borders, but they have absolutely been at war trying to destroy the United States from afar — and they damn-near succeeded.  Without Trump 2016 and Trump 2024 I believe they would have succeeded.

So despite what your low-IQ friends and family members want to say, President Trump did not start one single new war.  He is ending them.

He is ending the system of American destruction that has persisted for decades.

He IS systematically cleaning up the mess we’ve left all over the world and then as messes are cleaned up our troops ARE coming home.

He knew this would make for a tough two years.  No other President had the stomach for it (or they have been outright compromised).  But President Trump knew the payoff would be perfect.  That’s what a true leader does.  A true visionary and true leader will lead you through the tough parts to get you where you need to go.

It’s like the coach who puts the team through heavy conditioning in the hot summer sun or in a hot basketball gym.  It’s not fun at the time.  Things look like they’re getting worse.  No one is happy.  This sucks!  But when you start winning and the conditioning carries you through the season and you start winning championships, you realize there was a master plan all along.

Now let’s bring it back to the beef and the American cattle ranchers.

And what you need to understand here is that President Trump has two competing problems that he needs to fix and both have opposite fixes needed.

Problem 1: the American cattle herds have been declining for decades.  Very bad for national security and US food security.

Here’s what it looks like visually:

Problem 2: beef prices are skyrocketing, pricing red meat out of the budgets of many Americans.  Also not good.

The problems of course are related.  If you know basic supply and demand, as supply decreases, the goods become scarce and prices go up.  Simple.

There is a Bucket 1 and a Bucket 2 fix to apply here.

Bucket 1: long-term, systematic and structural changes to bring the American cattle herd numbers back up.

President Trump and his Administration have already been working hard on this since he took office in January 2025 and we’re starting to see the results already coming in, even if slow.

On July 24, 2026, the USDA reported 94.2 million cattle and calves on July 1, 2026 — UP slightly from July 2025.
That’s the first meaningful evidence that the overall contraction may be bottoming.

But that’s a long, slow process and it will likely take years for prices in the grocery stores to come down.

So what does President Trump do in the meantime?

He deploys Bucket 2 alongside the Bucket 1 fix: he temporarily imports beef to increase supply and bring prices in the grocery store down.

Let me say it again all together: (1) President Trump’s Administration is taking systematic and wide-ranging actions to support American ranchers and bring the cattle herd numbers up.  That’s already happening and will continue to happen, but it will take years.  (2) Simultaneously, he is now temporarily increasing supply by importing beef to bring consumer prices down.

Running a large company or a large country is not easy, and Armchair Monday-Morning Quarterbacking it from your Barcalounger is honestly quite ignorant and embarrassing.

President Trump is weaving together one of the most impressive dances and balancing acts I have ever witnessed and he’s doing it expertly.

So that’s the answer on the beef.

For those of you who like video better than reading, Glenn Beck actually addressed all of this in a recent video and I thought he did an excellent job.

So on the heels of everything I just told you, now watch this from Beck:

Ok, now on to the second question: Did we have the lettuce outbreak because Trump fired all the regulators and food inspectors?  Are we UNSAFE now?  Are we all going to die?

Well, to that point, here is how I responded:

A couple thoughts come to mind…

The first is Ben Franklin’s famous quote: “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”.

Liberals always want the Government to save them.  They want Daddy Government to change their diaper and swaddle them all day long because the world is such a scary and dangerous place.

Of course true Republicans and Libertarians want the Government out of our lives to the greatest extent possible.

So no, I’m not going to be asking Big Daddy Government for more oversight and more regulation.  The free market will handle it just fine.

Second, sometimes bad things happen in this world.  We can’t always prevent them all, and heaping on more regulators just because there was one little flare up in lettuce, strikes me as a really bad idea.  We already have plenty of laws and plenty of regulations and regulators.  Bad things will still occasionally happen.

Third, it reminds me of the businesses that post signs saying “Guns Banned In This Premises”.  Makes me laugh every time.  Why stop there?  Why bother with banning guns at all, why not just go big and ban crime itself!  Of course the joke is that you can’t ban crime.  You can have as many regulations and regulators as you want, but crime will still happen.  The only question is how much freedom and liberty do you want to retain along the way?

Fourth, it would entirely shock me to learn that this was staged/planted to make the Trump Admin look bad.  Would that surprise you?  Then blame it on “cutting regulators”.  I would actually be more surprised if this were just an organic outbreak.

Anyway, hope that helps.

So there you go folks!

I would love to know all of your thoughts in response.

Agree?

Disagree?

Have something to add?

If you liked this and found it helpful, please forward to your Liberal friends and family members the next time they hit you with one of these GOTCHA questions.

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