Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with comments he made about farm laborers during a phone interview with CNBC. The President spoke on Tuesday, 5 August 2025, explaining his belief that deported immigrant farm employees are not easy to replace with native-born workers. Farmers have been left short of staff due to the Trump administration’s ICE round-ups of undocumented migrants. Trump suggested people who live “in the inner city” are “not doing that [farm] work” but Hispanic migrants do it “naturally”. He then launched into a story about a conversation he had once had with a farmer. Trump says he asked, "What happens if they get a bad back?" to which the farmer allegedly responded, "They don't get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die".
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Reann Philogene | Tuesday 05 August 2025 16:16 BST
Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with comments he made about farm laborers during a phone interview with CNBC.
The President spoke on Tuesday, 5 August 2025, explaining his belief that deported immigrant farm employees are not easy to replace with native-born workers.
Farmers have been left short of staff due to the Trump administration’s ICE round-ups of undocumented migrants.
When he refers to a demographic as “these people,” you know we’re in for some racist mess.
He said a farmer told him that migrants don't get "bad backs," because "if they get a bad back, they die.”
When he refers to a demographic as “these people,” you know we’re in for some racist mess.
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