Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) slammed the Trump administration after it promoted its initiatives aimed toward farmers with the URL “OnlyFarms.gov,” an allusion to a social media platform finest recognized for content material from intercourse employees and grownup creators.
“Your tax {dollars} are paying for the USDA to parody a porn web site,” Massie wrote, referring to the U.Okay.-based social media platform OnlyFans.
“They need to delete the tweet and the URL,” he added.
The URL “OnlyFarms.gov” directs customers to a web page on the White Home web site about agricultural initiatives.
President Donald Trump spoke Friday to an viewers of farmers from the White Home’s Truman Balcony, promising to chop prices for struggling farmers and “rapidly do away with the horrible chains positioned on tractor suppliers.” (He additionally received distracted by a gold tractor he admired.)
The White Home was met with some backlash after rolling out its OnlyFarms promotion on X.
“Are you able to arrest Epstein’s co-conspirators as a substitute of riffing on a porn web site?” Massie requested in follow-up that ratioed the White Home submit.
Although OnlyFans’ CEO Kelly Blair has beforehand insisted the web site, described as an 18+ subscription platform, shouldn’t be a porn web site, it has develop into well-known for its grownup content material.
Different X customers famous that farmers have struggled through the president’s second time period below Trump’s huge tariffs, in addition to excessive oil costs fueled brought on by his conflict in Iran.
“I assume one might have a humorousness concerning the Trump administration riffing on a porn web site to spotlight the taxpayer bailout for farmers because of Trump’s tariffs,” The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell wrote. “However you then bear in mind there’s a significant Trump/DOJ coverup of a pedophile ring, and it’s much less humorous.”
Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage for the transport of fertilizer substances, has additionally raised prices for farmers.
A number of GOP lawmakers additionally raised considerations final 12 months after Trump proposed to import beef from Argentina to decrease costs for shoppers at the price of American cattle ranchers.
Some distinguished conservatives backed Massie’s criticism of the promotion, together with former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to as the submit “gross.”
“Thomas Massie is true which is why his remark ratioed the WH gross submit evaluating farmers to porn stars,” Greene stated. “This administration was elected by conservatives who’re against porn, rapists, and pedophiles but protects Epstein class pedos and rapists.”
Proper-wing podcaster Candace Owens additionally slammed the promotion.
“‘The White Home honors deceased OnlyFans CEO and high AIPAC donor by utilizing their branding on an official authorities web site’ or one thing,” Owens wrote. “The Wii Sports activities conflict edits didn’t reduce it, so that they determined to reference a porn web site as a substitute.”