Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., told Newsmax on Wednesday that he interpreted a remark President Donald Trump made at last night’s presidential address to Congress as a reference to the hardships farmers faced during his first term when their exports were affected due to the trade war the United States entered with China in 2018.

During Tuesday’s address, Trump said his “tariffs will go on agricultural product coming into America … starting on April 2.”

“It may be a little bit of an adjustment period; we had that before when I made the deal with China,” he added. “$50 billion of purchases, and I said just” to the farmers “‘bear with me,’ and they did. They’ll probably have to bear with me again and this will be even better.”

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