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".
