'Wall Street investors mocking 'chicken' Trump with humiliating acronym'
"Wall Street investors have spotted one of president Donald Trump's tendencies and have started betting against him...They've even come up with a derogatory term – 'TACO,' an acronym for 'Trump Always Chickens Out' – for the president's erratic handling of his on-again, off-again tariffs, because they've noticed his tendency to announce punishing duties that send markets into the tank, only to back off a short time later and goose the market."
"This dynamic played out in recent days, when markets drooped at the end of last week with Trump's announcement of 50 percent tariffs on the European Union, only to back off Sunday with a delay for a new round of trade talks – which drove major gains when markets reopened after the Memorial Day holiday."
“'Once he delivers bad news, investors are buying those stocks when they are beaten down waiting for him to chicken out and watching those stocks rebound in value,' said Ted Jenkin, president of Exit Stage Left Advisors."
“'Under no previous presidency did we have active markets betting on the president’s resolve,' said University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers. 'There was no BACO trade, no CACO trade – nothing. It was always taken as a given that when the president spoke on Monday, he would likely still mean it on Tuesday. That’s no longer true. But what’s really hard is that it’s not even obvious when it’ll be true, and when it won’t be. Madness.'"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-always-chickens-out/
I think a better acronym would be TAMM (Trump Always Manipulates Markets).
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I loved Lawrence last night
This meme also made me smile
trump was asked about this term and was pissed
Reporter: Wall Street analysts have a new term called the TACO trade.. Saying Trump always chickens out on tariffs… Â
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-28T17:13:22.578Z
Trump: I kick out?
Reporter: Chicken out.
Wall Street has caught on to trump's taco tactics
