During a visit to Iowa, Trump said farmers' woes were the result of Biden-era policy and foreign countries. The New York Times reports the president's 2025 tariff sweep made costs for equipment soar and prices for crops drop.

"It's a dire time for American farmers, particularly the Midwest soybean and corn farmers," said Kirk Leeds, chief executive of the Iowa Soybean Association.

Read more from NYT here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/trump-iowa-farms-tariffs.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

Last we checked, that's against the Constitution.

US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, in an opening speech for a Trump event in Iowa, said she wanted to give the crowd of protesters gathered outside "the one-finger salute."

A crowd of Iowans protested outside of the Horizon Events Center in Clive on Jan. 27, 2026, where Trump delivered a speech on energy and the economy.

Everything is expensive. That's not a policy abstraction. It hits home. Nathan Sage in a raw moment talks about how a downturn in the Iowa economy has affected his own wife's job.