*John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, went on the offensive Sunday, challenging what he characterized as a string of false statements coming from the Trump administration.
Boyd made his remarks on MS NOW, where conversation touched on the Supreme Court’s recent decision to curtail the president’s tariff authority, Rolling Out reports. A centerpiece of Boyd’s criticism was a claim Trump made at an Iowa event, where the president told attendees that $12 billion had been distributed to farmers.
Boyd rejected that assertion, saying no money has gone out. “He went down to Iowa and said that there was $12 billion that was paid out. People. That is a lie!” he said. “The money has not been paid out, not $0.01 of it. And I just recently got an email, I think, Friday that said that sign up period has now moved to April.”
Boyd outlined how the administration had repeatedly shifted its promised delivery date, cycling through November, December, January, and February with nothing to show for it. He said the president has faced no consequences for the continuous delays. “The president just keeps making false statements and he’s not being held accountable. This president has a problem with Black leaders that speak up or anyone that opposes anything that he says.”
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Boyd also raised sharp allegations about who gets a seat at the table when agricultural policy is being discussed. He said he was shut out of a White House roundtable where Trump unveiled the $12 billion announcement, a claim others doubted until a Black governor was similarly turned away from a separate meeting.
“He had an all-white farm meeting with the all-white audience that excluded Black farmers,” Boyd said. He tied the pattern directly to the administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives, describing it as deliberate political signaling designed to move away from Black and small farmer issues without naming race outright.
“They said, you know, we’re moving away from DEI. We’re moving away from the Black farmer issue, the small farmer issue. And that’s the kind of coding they put in there. But in all reality, he had an all-white farm meeting with the all-white audience that excluded Black farmers,” Boyd explained.
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