Trump Suggests Buying Argentine Beef to Lower Prices, Help Argentina ‘Survive’Frances Martel 20 Oct 2025
President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that his administration is considering importing beef from Argentina to lower its price at home and help Argentina stabilize its struggling economy, which he described as being in critical condition.
Speaking to a reporter from the Associated Press, Trump described beef as the last remaining major good whose price remains unacceptably high and indicated that his administration would focus on lowering that price in the short term.
He rejected concerns that importing beef from Argentina would create unreasonable competition for American cattle ranchers and implications that Argentina was taking advantage of American generosity, describing the country as “fighting for its life” rather than enjoying cushy benefits from America.
“The only price we have that’s high is beef and we’ll get that down,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “One of the things that we’re thinking about doing is beef from Argentina.”
Asked to respond to the American beef industry, which may object, Trump said, “Argentina is fighting for its life young lady, you don’t know anything about it, they’re fighting for their life.”
“They have no money, they have no anything, they’re fighting so hard to survive. If I can help them survive in a free world,” Trump continued, adding that he “happen[ed] to like” Argentine President Javier Milei, a right-wing libertarian, and rejecting the idea that Argentina was “doing great.”
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