President Donald Trump is asking American growers to bear with him as tariffs threaten to hurt their business and deepen a farm downturn that’s entering a third year.

Within seconds of Mr Trump’s statement that he was set to implement them, stockmarkets swooned. The S&P 500 index of large American firms ended the day nearly 2% lower, its biggest fall this year. And the decline probably would have been steeper but for residual suspicion that once the damage becomes evident,

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has a message for egg consumers left hungry by out-of-control egg prices: Go cluck yourself — and buy a chicken to produce your own eggs.

Trump administration Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently addressed rising egg prices, suggesting that Americans struggling to cope with inflation should begin maintaining backyard coops and produce their own eggs.

The Trump administration's secretary of agriculture, Brooke Rollins, suggested Americans keep chickens in their back yards in response to surging egg prices on Sunday during a Fox News appearance. Newsweek contacted the Department of Agriculture for comment on Tuesday via email outside of regular office hours.

Trump's speech on Tuesday night was relentlessly partisan, boasting about his election victory and criticizing Democrats for failing to recognize his accomplishments.