Of course! - Trump ramping up production of glyphosate!!!

[womanofthehills]

MAHA is pissed!! Trump gives middle finger to MAHA moms!!!

“MAHA voters were promised health reform, not chemical entrenchment,” said Vani Hari, a healthy eating advocate and supporter of Mr. Kennedy’s nutrition agenda. She called the executive order “a direct assault on MAHA” and “a gift to pesticide and chemical industry lobbies at the expense of human health.”

Ken Cook, the president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization that has also supported parts of Mr. Kennedy’s agenda, said, “I can’t envision a bigger middle finger to every MAHA mom than this.”

The Defense Production Act provides a pathway for companies to be shielded from certain liability suits, and Mr. Trump’s order appeared to extend that protection to producers of glyphosate. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in weeks in a case that asks whether federal law shields pesticide manufacturers from such lawsuits.

Link to tweet

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[RainCaster]

1. How much did Bayer pay for that?

That's a very big word for TSF, two more syllables than he usually uses. I surmise that:
1. Trump got paid off
2. What's the going rate- $3.5M?
3. Someone with more than 3 functional braincells wrote that pronouncement.

[womanofthehills]

2. It goes totally against what Rebert Kennedy Jr says

Kennedy’s team won millions for cancer victims of glyphosate. Trump’s big FU to Kennedy and MAHA but Kennedy won’t condemn this. .

Kennedy - “The herbicide Glyphosate is one of the likely culprits in America’s chronic disease epidemic. Much more widely used here than in Europe. Shockingly, much of our exposure comes from its use as a desiccant on wheat, not as an herbicide. From there it goes straight into our bodies. My USDA will ban that practice.“


Trump’s MAHA followers are really pissed.

“Trump has just become the Glyphosate President. He's now all-in for glyphosate production.

“Because America, he thinks, needs more cancer-causing poisonous weedkiller chemicals spread”

“Please God tell me this isn't true: Did Trump just give manufactures of glyphosate immunity under Defense Production Act?”

Link to tweet

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[dalton99a]

3. Pesticide use and cancer risk rise together across America's heartland

https://investigatemidwest.org/2026/02/18/pesticide-use-and-cancer-risk-rise-together-across-americas-heartland/

Pesticide use and cancer risk rise together across America’s heartland
America’s farmers and farmworkers, their families and neighbors, are being diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than the national average. A growing body of research indicates that pesticides are partly to blame.
by Ben Felder, Investigate Midwest
February 18, 2026

[womanofthehills]

4. Sounds like Trump just lost MAHA

They are incredulous!!

Health Ranger:
“ MAHA is dead. MAGA is dead. And Trump wants the American people dead and poisoned with glyphosate weedkiller. It's now abundantly obvious.

Kelly Ryerson : “Just as the large MAHA base begins to consider what to do at midterms, the President issues an EO to expand domestic glyphosate production. The very same carcinogenic pesticide that MAHA cares about most.”

Trump just lost the MAHA Republicans - thousands posting how upset they are.

[ColoringFool]

5. "MAGA" Is Execrable Enough An Acronym. Please No "MAHA." (For Which I....

Had to Google Search.)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. MaddowBlog-Trump executive order on a weed killer chemical didn't do RFK Jr. any favors

The “Make America Healthy Again” agenda is riddled with a series of overlapping contradictions, which are becoming even more common.

When RFK Jr. was on the campaign trail in 2024, he vowed that if he joined Trump’s team, he would “ban the worst agricultural chemicals.”

I have some bad news for the voters who actually believed he'd follow through on this.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-19T18:25:23.000Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-executive-order-on-a-weed-killer-chemical-didnt-do-rfk-jr-any-favors

About a year later, in November 2025, the Republican administration advanced a plan to approve agricultural pesticides containing “forever chemicals” as an active ingredient, despite concerns raised by some scientists and environmental activists. Kennedy, in his capacity as Trump’s health and human services secretary, bit his tongue.

This year, the underlying dynamic has reached a new level. The New York Times reported:

President Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at spurring the domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that has figured in health lawsuits.

The move immediately set off alarms among supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement, and appeared to put Mr. Kennedy in an awkward position.

As the report explains, glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, which has been the target of tens of thousands of lawsuits that claim it causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma......

This has been an ongoing issue for months. In June, MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell wrote a memorable Washington Post column along these lines, noting that Kennedy’s MAHA agenda is rooted in part in the idea that Americans’ health would greatly improve through better nutrition and exposure to fewer environmental toxins.

Kennedy, Rampell added, is nevertheless playing a leading role in an administration that’s “expanding use of environmental toxins.”

If Kennedy and Team Trump wanted to admit that the MAHA agenda was largely focused on undermining vaccines, it would be impolitic, but it would also be far closer to the truth.