Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal blasted President Donald Trump’s tariff policy as “self-destructive folly” in response to plans to bail out farmers whose markets the administration has destroyed.

Trump is considering a $10 billion relief package for soybean farmers, who have seen their sales plummet, thanks to the president’s trade war with China, which has hit American soybeans with a 23-percent import tax.

U.S. soybean exports to China totaled 985 million bushels last year, but this year they totaled just 218 million at the start of September, the Journal’s editorial board wrote in a scathing op-ed.

At the same time, American farmers are struggling with a labor shortage thanks to the White House’s mass deportation drive.

“First, Mr. Trump imposes tariffs that he says only hur

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