That’s a lie!’ Black farmer corrects Donald Trump while exposing president’s ‘all-white’ meeting

John Boyd Jr., who leads the National Black Farmers Association, spoke out strongly on Sunday. He said former President Donald Trump was not telling the truth and also called attention to what he described as a meeting with only white farmers.

Boyd appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent decision to limit Trump’s tariff powers. Trump has been publicly criticizing the justices since the ruling came out.

But Boyd said his main concern was something different. He accused Trump of lying about $12 billion in payments that were supposed to go to farmers.

Boyd said Trump recently traveled to Iowa and claimed that $12 billion had already been paid to farmers. Boyd strongly disagreed. He said that not a single penny of that money has actually been sent out.

According to Boyd, he even received an email recently saying that the sign-up period for the program had been pushed back again, this time to April.

He pointed out that Trump had first said farmers would receive the money in November. Then the timeline changed to December, then January, then February.

Now, it has been delayed again. Boyd said this pattern shows that Trump keeps making promises that do not come true, and he believes no one is holding him responsible for these statements.

Boyd also said he feels that Trump has a problem with Black leaders who speak out or disagree with him.

He claimed that he was left out of a meeting Trump held with farmers when the $12 billion was announced. Boyd said the meeting was made up entirely of white farmers and that he was not invited.

He explained that some people did not believe he had been excluded until a similar situation happened to a Black governor who was reportedly uninvited from another event. Boyd said this behavior is typical and reflects how Trump operates.

He added that while Trump and his supporters say their actions are not about race and that they are moving away from diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, Boyd believes these decisions still hurt Black farmers and small farmers.

In his view, the meeting and the lack of inclusion sent a clear message. He said that in reality, it was an all-white farm meeting with an all-white audience, and Black farmers were left out.