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BREAKING: YAY OR NEIGH!? Trump's Agriculture Secretary bluntly refuses to reveal the origin of the "beef" imports poised to flood into the U.S. as horse meat rumors swirl. Maybe skip that burger the next time you go out... "What specific countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up those beef imports aside from Mexico?" a reporter asked. "I am not privy to talk about that," said Secretary Brooke Rollins. "I think the conversations are still going on and that's Ambassador Greer who's finalizing what exactly that looks like and I think the President's involved in that as well. Thank you." The White House's decision to lift tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of beef from foreign sources has quickly turned into a massive headache for the administration, as the same American ranchers who helped elect Trump rebel in outrage. The decision was made due to a 75-year low in the U.S. cattle supply but, like everything else that Trump does, it's shortsighted and will have disastrous long-term consequences. If foreign meat floods the markets, that will hurt American ranchers and cause some of them to go out of business. As their profits plummet, that will in turn make it difficult for them to expand their herds, meaning the domestic cattle numbers will remain depressed, causing a vicious cycle where more and more foreign meat must be purchased to make up for the shortfall. As for the "horse meat" meme of it all, the tongue-in-cheek idea has caught fire on social media after it was recently revealed that the Trump administration has been selling off captured wild horses to middlemen at discount rates. Those middlemen have then been turning around and selling the animals to foreign slaughterhouses. "You Trump guys have done a bang up job. At this point, it's not even about like a victory lap. You're eating horse meat," mocked political commentator Van Lathan on his podcast Higher Learning. "Allegedly," interjected co-host Rachel Lindsay with a smirk. "Whatever," said Lathan. "It seems as if you're eating horse meat. And I bet you if you found out that it was horse meat, you'd love it. If the fucking MAGA people found out that Trump was rounding up horses, slaughtering them, and they were eating horses at McDonald's, Burger King, horse burrito in your Chipotle, I bet they will find a way to love the horse meat." "'Oh my God, a horse is leaner, it's actually better,'" he said, impersonating a Trumper. "The horse is great because you can have them as your companion and then after you could eat of his flesh and experience the emotional connection that you had towards the horse!'" "They will become the Horse Eaters Association of America," Lathan added. While there is no hard evidence that the meat that's about to surge into the U.S. is of equine provenance, at this point the public knows better than to put anything past this depraved President. The popularity of this conspiracy theory says more about the American people's disgust with Trump than anything else.