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Trump Irritated that His Team Didn’t Tell Him About ‘TACO,’ Sources Say

  • President Donald Trump reacted sharply on May 7, 2025, when a reporter asked about the term TACO at a White House event.
  • The acronym TACO, coined earlier that month by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, stands for Trump Always Chickens Out and critiques Trump's tariff reversals.
  • Trump had not previously heard the term and expressed frustration, seeing it as a misunderstanding of his trade negotiating tactics and a depiction of weakness.
  • Trump said, "I've never heard that," called it the "nastiest question," and threatened high tariffs including 145% on Chinese goods and 50% on the EU, later adjusting them downward.
  • The TACO acronym quickly became popular on finance Twitter and Wall Street, reflecting market reactions to Trump's tariff threats and subsequent policy reversals.
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Why Trump got visibly angry at the ‘TACO’ question

There was a reason for President Donald Trump’s particularly caustic response when a reporter asked him Wednesday about a new term coined about the president’s tariffs: TACO, or Trump Always Chickens Out.

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Iltalehti broke the news in Finland on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
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