The administration is now learning the hard lesson that you cannot print diesel, so it is doing the next best thing. It prints currency and hands it out so people can afford the fuel it cannot produce.
This is what happens when a government confuses money with wealth.
The fertilizer crisis alone is proof of the underlying rot. On June 29, 2026, Trump issued a proclamation declaring an emergency over threats to the availability of enough fertilizer to meet agricultural demand, temporarily suspending certain antidumping and countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco.
When you have to declare a national emergency over basic plant food, you are not governing, you are triaging.
It all gets worse (and more insane) from here...