During a cabinet meeting Thursday, President Donald Trump talked about the White House gathering later today of farmers and ranchers from across the country.  

“So tomorrow we will be announcing a variety of actions that we’re taking to support American farmers, who we never forget,” Trump said.

“We love the farmers. We gave them $12 billion out of tariff money. We had a tremendous amount of tariff money come in and we continue to have… because the tariff money has been so substantial, we gave our farmers who have been mistreated by some countries, we gave them $12 billion and they’re extremely happy. And they deserve it. They’ve been great. They never complain. They just go out and they farm and they wouldn’t do anything different…I like their job better, actually. I love the farmers.”

Very few details have been revealed about the gathering today. The White House schedule has President Trump delivering remarks to farmers at 12:30 pm and departing from the White House at 12:45 to fly to Miami.

The event is billed as a “celebration of agriculture” on the White House South Lawn, with hundreds of invited farmers and ranchers representing various regions and commodities. South Dakota rancher and ag advocate Amanda Radke is one who posted about attending the event, describing it as an honor to join President Trump and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins while bringing “a little bit of cowboy culture” and messages from farm and ranch country. She plans to report from the event.