Trump responded angrily toward a reporter in the White House after she told him that Wall Street investors are using a new acronym, TACO, to describe the ongoing tariff turmoil caused by Trump. The acronym stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” and was reportedly coined by a Financial Times columnist.
He's upset by the name "TACO Don".
73 Comments
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 149 pts · 1y
Congratulations Donald, you just 'Streisand Effect'ed yourself.
If you'd have just rolled your eyes and said something like "yeah, they're a bunch of jokers, eh?" everyone would have forgotten about that term within a few days.
But now the world knows that nickname gets deep under your skin. It's going to haunt you like bad gas after a large McDonald's meal.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
Or maybe a crunchwrap supreme from TACO Bell?
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
It's a distraction. When are people going to stop falling for this shit?
samus12345@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
Everything he does has always been claimed to be a distraction. The people that hate him know full well he's destroying the country, and the people that love him don't care.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
No it isn’t. This ‘distraction’ shit gives him too much credit, like he’s thinking a step ahead or strategising somehow.
He’s not. He’s just an idiot who can’t keep his mouth shut even when it hurts him.
zeet@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 1y
Taco Belle
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
The ONLY acceptable use of AI.
Change my mind.otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Inb4 this is the new furry. 🤢
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
why did you do this to me? Why? What did I do to deserve this???
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
Thanks, I hate it 🤣🤌🏼
Arcka@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
His dainty wrinkled hands make the tacos look so big
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
In the meme folder you go!
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 1y
This is how you antagonize someone into doing something incredibly stupid.
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org · 79 pts · 1y
As opposed to all the credibly stupid things he's done so far?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 40 pts · 1y
Tariffs for journalists incoming tomorrow
Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 1y
Tacos are now illegal
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 1y
Oh fuck 😭
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
He wouldn't dare. Tacos unite us all, even those of us without flavor. It would be the swiftest coup in history led entirely by the white house kitchen staff
0ops@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Well that's just great. Does anyone know a reliable taco bootlegger?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
They're now "Freedom Tortillas".
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Tortilla sounds too Spanish, it's now freedom flatbread
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y
So should we pivot to "Fear, Retreating, Evading, Escaping, Donny, Overwhelmed, Misogynist"?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Too smart. It's gotta be some obscure round about way of doing it. Like Mexican themed corner stores can't sell taco seasoning
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
Tarriffs on Wall Street.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Not to worry. This is exactly why we Americans only elect very stable geniuses to office.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee · 57 pts · 1y
Tacos will be banned from all restaurants in America. Taco Bell is now a terrorist gang, and Del Taco is a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
el_bhm@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 1y
If you read Taco backwards it spells ms13
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Bad hombres are getting TACO BELL tattooed on their knuckles.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
TACOCAT backwards is Tren de Aragua
D_C@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Say it backwards 3 times whilst looking in a mirror. I dare you!!!
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 1y
Gives everyone demeaning nicknames but can't handle getting one himself? Sounds right.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Crazy how Lèse-majesté works. You're telling me the king can point at me and laugh and fling rotten fruit, but if I do it to him then his guards cut my head off?
I guess this proves the king
has the full power of the armed forces at his command and uses it to inspire terror and reflexive compliance in his subjectsis just thin-skinned.k0e3@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 1y
He's such a sensitive little bitch. Imagine how cool he'd look if had just laughed out off.
"Yeah, they got me there. But you'll see!"
That's literally all he has to say and the right would think he's cool, and the left would be worried what he might do next. What a moron.
Wilco@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 1y
Trump can't do this. He is an idiotic manchild with no sense of humor whatsoever.
I honestly do not believe he mentally registers as human.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y
I remember Inauguration Day 2016. People were commneting that his crowd was smaller than Obama's.
Instead of joking about how his voters were too busy working to come, he accused the Parks Service of trying to sabotage him.
Etterra@discuss.online · 11 pts · 1y
Except his brain literally can't stand negative feedback. The Orange Jackass is going to end up filling a whole textbook in psychology classes after he dies. Assuming the Republican ghouls haven't banned books yet.
gwilikers@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Tbf that sounds like how Bush Jr. would respond to something like that. I hate Bush - like I think he gets off too easy because we only talk about foreign policy of post-911 and forget about what a total shitshow every other policy that administration introduced. But I'd take that jackass over the wholly incoherent conspiracy laden troglodytic ramblings of Taco Don and his pathetic followers.
Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 1y
A food truck has a golden opportunity to rebrand as Tariff Tacos. The Donald could be an overdone empty shell served with an orange drink.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y
Tarriffic Tacos I think you mean.
veniasilente@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y
Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Mexican-Chinese fusion taco idea. Agent Orange Chicken
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 1y
Or else what, Taco? hehehehe
TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y
Lmao suck it, Taco
lefixxx@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
We need a green TACO hat
Dasus@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
That would make him so mad.
Honestly even just one person wearing one would annoy him more than all the baby genocide in the world
Ok I don't like doing this (using ai fakery) but
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Frankly, I'd go the other way and eschew the shite design of the MAGAt redcap and add an ironic icon, like: a cartoony booger king crown behind it, all "urban" & "street" for plausible deniability; or a chain taqueria-style font saying "Do'h Hermanos" arched over TACO w/ a duo of mascot chicken heads stretched mid-gorble (ie "choking") across each other. I dunno. Something. 🤘🏼
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
Luigi Green? That's a color Nintendur doesn't own, right?
halloween_spookster@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
TACO in chief
Crikeste@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Do not do this, we must cherish tacos 🌮 🙏🏼
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
If you would like to send a picture of a taco to the white house here is the address:
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500
kerntucky@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 1y
Etterra@discuss.online · 14 pts · 1y
What's wrong 🎵 TACO Don 🎵
MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
TheBat@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 1y
How can anybody watch that and think yup that dudes smart af. 😂
javasux@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
They don't think he's smart, they think he's powerful and wants the same things as them.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
How can they think that? Just look at the tariffs and you see he has little power.
Enzy@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Orange piece of shit scared of free speech
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
Collab imminent?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Stop deadnaming the man!
Dasus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
renrenPDX@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Doritos Locos TACO in Chief.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Waiting for the Breaking Bad spinoff, Don Taco.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
tell the kitchen staff to 86 taco don
DerArzt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Worse economy, more turmoil, TACO Don's
Tillman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Come to think of it he's always kinda looked like a big fat Mexi-fry.
nuko147@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Xenia Pax - Want It Here. Great, now it stuck again in my mind playing continuously.
spacesatan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 1y
laserm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Okay, taco
owl@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 1y
Where did the name originate?
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
It says it in the caption…
owl@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y
Thank you, I didn't look in there.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 1y
I've got a clever quip here, and I think it's original..."That's an insult to Taco's everywhere!". Now it's time to go to my 5 minute cycles of refresh to see all of those upvotes.
samus12345@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Sorry, you'll have to be satisfied with a correction instead:
*tacos
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
I'll take it. Thanks!