President Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to announce April tariffs on all imported food, framing the move as a boon to U.S. farmers who will produce even more product for domestic consumption. But the MAGA movement is revealing a gap in its economic logic, and it will cost U.S. consumers and producers dearly.  

Consider the video posted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., wherein the “Make America Healthy Again” leader pledged to work in coordination with the Department of Agriculture to ban all agricultural chemicals and pesticides used for farming if they’d been restricted overseas.  

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