#Trump, it would seem, is not one for a “#TACO.” The taco in question is not a dish made with tortillas, but rather a reference to how markets are responding to his #tariffs.
TACO, short for Trump Always Chickens Out, is a tongue-in-cheek term coined by the FT columnist Robert Armstrong. It has been adopted to describe the lucrative pattern in which #markets tumble after Trump makes tariff threats, only to rebound sharply when he relents & allows countries more time…
#Trump has spent years…[wanting to be seen as a a tough guy]. So when he was asked by a reporter in the Oval Office on Wednesday whether the term might be a valid description of his approach to #tariffs, Trump, [of course, attached the reporter] reacted with ire.
“I chicken out? I’ve never heard that,” he said. “Don’t ever say what you said,” he told the reporter. “That’s a nasty question. To me, that’s the nastiest question.”
I’d like a margarita with this #TACO.
#Trump says he’s going to double the #tariff rate on #steel from 25% to 50%, a dramatic increase that could further increase #prices for the metal used to make #housing, #autos & other goods.
Trump was speaking at US Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, PA, to announce investments by Japan’s Nippon Steel.
The price of steel products has increased roughly 16% in Trump’s 2nd term, acc/to the govt’s price index.
@Nonilex I'm glad at least a few people with the platform are standing up to him and DOING THEIR JOBS, which is entirely too much to ask of just about anyone in congress. Lowercase intentional, they'll get it back if or when they're worth a damn.
I just finished sending a couple more letters of dissatisfaction with my representative. Keep hammering them, folks! And encourage the two (?) reps/senators who might be doing something at any given time!
May be he heard previously that tacos are a Mexican dish.
a #MAGA, Mythomanous Amateur Grinding America,
with his own #DEI, Decadent Egocentric Idiocracy to command his #ICE, Inconsiderate Cretins Ears.
The only allies he can have are his slaves.
The utterly incredible thing is that he has been elected, which tells a lot about the majority of Americans.
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