The Democratic Party has commissioned a taco truck to serve free lunch outside the Republican National Committee’s DC headquarters beginning at noon on Tuesday.
“Trump always chickens out—we’re just bringing the tacos to match.”
The giveaway is not just to mark taco Tuesday, says a Democratic National Committee staffer who tipped Mother Jones off about the free grub. The food is also meant to get under the skin of President Donald Trump, who has recently become associated with the acronym TACO—shorthand for Trump Always Chickens Out.
Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong coined the term in early May to describe Trump’s habit of announcing sweeping tariff threats only to—in the wake of the inevitable market plunge—renege and give countries more time to negotiate. Most recently he delayed a previously announced 50 percent tariff on the European Union by more than a month, from June 1 to July 9.
Financial analysts have shared similar but less cheeky descriptions of Trump’s tendency to backtrack. Shortly after Trump announced those now-delayed EU tariffs, Salomon Fiedler of the German bank Berenberg offered his own prediction. “Wild threats by Trump are not unusual,” he said, according to the New York Times. “Given the damage the U.S. would do to itself with this tariff, he will probably not follow through.”
But Democrats are betting that saying TACO just rolls off the tongue better. Trump “talks a big game, caves, and then leaves working families and small businesses to deal with the fallout,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement. “Trump always chickens out—we’re just bringing the tacos to match.”
The acronym has gone mainstream enough to come up during a White House press conference. When a reporter asked Trump about it on May 28, Trump rebuffed her, calling her question “nasty.” With any luck, Tuesday’s tacos won’t be.
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Anything but tackling the problem head on.
Edit: the /r/politics thread is just as cringe as you would imagine.
Pfffft! What if they were chicken tacos!
Second edit: dove back in like an idiot and found this fun comments chain where liberals are saying they want trump to double down on crashing the economy so it gives Dems a better chance at winning. Another user points out how crashing the economy is cool and a good strategy but voting third party to send the Dems a message should be met with vitriol and pitchforks? Yes. Apparently it’s better to crash the economy than to use your democratically given right™ to voice your concerns.
This is actually one of the occasions where them literally shutting the fuck up and doing nothing would have been considerably better then their plan.
They’re just gonna drive up attendance, add to the spectacle, and guarentee this gets full media coverage all day.
Right? “Let’s give a bunch of conservatives a free lunch paid for with the donations we email everyone about” God forbid that food go to feeding people who can’t get a meal. That would actually accomplish something and help people which they clearly have no interest in.
Is there any evidence outside of headlines saying that trump is pissed about the nickname? I know he snapped at a reporter about it once, but that’s not enough for me to believe this is actually getting under his skin.