Trump’s Bad Bet on Beef

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Three hundred thousand metric tons of ground beef are on their way to the United States. There’s no easy way to visualize 300,000 metric tons of anything (for context, that’s about 12 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty). All of that beef could fill an important gap in the American market—but…