Coca-Cola’s move comes a week after the White House issued a statement by President Trump saying he had been talking to the soft drink giant about using cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup in its signature drink.
Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode predicts that an increase in using U.S. cane sugar will lead to a rise in foreign cane sugar imports.
Bode said in a statement to NPR, “Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and expand the trade deficit.”
I know this was a completely empty thing and Trump will never do anything about it, but who was this really for? Does this threat even make any sense?
I want you to stop talking about Epstein so I’m going to anger a very specific part of my base? The people angry about Epstein are his chronically online base. I don’t imagine the corn farmer base even is aware of most of his online presence, let alone this outrage. Corn farmers being told the president is taking away a source of revenue are going to attend town halls, going to call and yell at their local elected officials, not tell people on Twitter to stop talking about Epstein because it’s going to crush their livelihoods.