What a SURPRISE. Little Lord Lardass does not like the new "T.A.C.O." acronym. "DON'T EVERY SAY WHAT YOU SAID!"

[Miles Archer]

Trump was just asked about the ‘TACO trade’ for the first time. He called it the ‘nastiest question’

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/economy/trump-wall-street-taco-trade-nastiest-question

“I chicken out? Oh, I’ve never heard that. You mean because I reduced China from 145% that I set down to 100 and then to another number?” Trump said Wednesday, referring to tariff rates he imposed on imported Chinese goods. (The rate is now 30%, after Trump raised it as high as 145% last month, much to investors’ dismay, only to reduce it a few weeks later.)

“You call that chickening out?” Trump responded to a reporter at an Oval Office event Wednesday, referring to his recent announcements on EU and Chinese tariff rates.

“It’s called negotiation,” Trump added, saying that part of his tactic can include setting “a ridiculous high number” for tariff rates and going down if he gets other nations to give in to his demands.

“Don’t ever say what you said,” Trump told the reporter, calling it “the nastiest question.”

[newdeal2]

1. So he gave away his playbook to other countries

Even if you believe in him, he’s an idiot on so many levels.

Glad we have a new thing to annoy him with though. He seems real sensitive about his taco thing, probably cause it’s foreign.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Taco Trumps on every corner! (nt)

[Blue Owl]

3. What's that, Chicken Taco?

Are you upset because people are calling you a chicken taco? We’ll make sure nobody calls you “chicken taco” anymore, the words “chicken taco” will never be spoken again. Those words are “chicken taco” for those who missed it. No more “chicken taco.” Got it? That’s “chicken taco.”

[RockRaven]

4. Whatever entity that reporter works for might be losing their credentials for a while...

Fragile Fanta Fuhrer -------->

[BoRaGard]

5. Hey Krasnov, she is not the one calling you TACO

It's Wall Street. How like you and your republicon komrades to pile on a woman doing an honest job. Meanwhile, ignoring the elephant in your psyche -- WALL STREET -- and pretending this is just one uppity woman -- not the financial sorcerers of the real world.

That's the very definition of cowardice. Picking on the littlest, running away from the truth. No wonder everyone now knows you not just as a draft-dodger, a felon, and also totally TACO.

[SheltieLover]

11. ...

[Kid Berwyn]

6. King TACO

Kinda fits.

[maxsolomon]

7. Every time I read a quote from MFer, I can feel brain cells dying.

I wish he was dead.

Note: he admits his tariffs are RIDICULOUS. He "negotiates" like a child.

[Cha]

8. Mump is a Nasty Chicken TACO.

[jmowreader]

9. I am reminded...

...of the tactics he used to convince them to sell him Mar-a-Lago.

Which, incidentally, was presaged by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Business Man." One Peter Proffit, sometimes known as Peter Pendulum, had entered into the Eye-Sore trade, in which when a rich man is preparing to erect a fine structure you rush in and build the ugliest building on the face of the planet then demand huge money to tear it down.

What Trump did was threaten to buy the property on the other side of the street from Mar-a-Lago and build a structure that would completely block Mar-a-Lago's view of the ocean unless they sold him the estate. Since Trump is a bit like Bart in Blazing Saddles threatening to shoot himself during the sheriff-installation ceremony - "listen to him, men; he's crazy enough to do it!" - they gave in.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Wall Street is laughing at Trump

And there is not a thing he can do about it.

[SheltieLover]

12. Chicken taco chicken taco chicken taco

[tanyev]

13. One sociopath's negotiation is everyone else's mafia shakedown.

😒