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Why Trump got visibly angry at the ‘TACO’ question | CNN Politics

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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.

He had not yet heard the term, according to a senior White House official who acknowledged to CNN that the president was caught off guard. Trump had said as much at the time, saying “I’ve never heard that” before calling it the “nastiest question.”

“He thought the reporter was calling him a chicken,” the official said, adding that Trump was “reasonably” frustrated with the phrase.

The acronym was coined in early May by a Financial Times columnist and is now used as shorthand by some on Wall Street to indicate that traders shouldn’t fret too much about Trump’s tariff threats, since he usually backs down.

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Donald Trump has very thin skin.
Everyone around him knows it.
World leaders know it as well.

Because he always acts this way when someone asks him a question he doesn't like. Refuses to answer, then gaslights and calls them "nasty". Typical narcissist shit.
- I wish they'd keep pressing him on it until he completely loses his rag. Let's see the Real Donald Trump.

🎶🎵 O-o-o-orange! Ch-ch-ch-chicken!
Trump’s an orange chicken and he’s stupid as hell!
Ooh, mamacita, he sees the economy fell!
Stock prices falling, and others are giving us flack!
Ooh, orange chicken’s having a TACO attaaaaaaaaack! 🎵 🎶

When you surround yourself with yes-men and don't attend meetings, you're going to miss a lot.

Trump taco sounds lewd

If trump always chickens out, might it also be appropriate to call him Orange Chicken? 🤭
Edit: someone already mentioned orange chicken
Please stop making fun of trump, he gonna ban tacos!!!

Because he is a thin skinned pos.

Imagine voting for this sad bastard. Your self-respect would have to be in the basement.

The taco truck in this case is one of Elmo's ugly ass electric dumpsters.

- No.

Why the fuck did it take so long for people to start asking him actual questions?
- He illegally kicked out unfriendly media
  
  In the past 24 hours the Elon drug use has come from the NYT and this is coming from CNBC. I’m calling bullshit on that excuse.

Our fucking president throws a hissy every "though" question, wait "nasty" question. Starts to insult the reporter and dodges the question in the end. Or just giving a nonsensical answer.
Relies on catchphrases on his socials for support.
What a fucking joke.
- Always has been

He's a baby man.
- With tiny baby hands
  
  When he puckers his lips it looks like an ahole
  
  Shitting the diaper in his pants

Um... yeah. Most of us outside of the media's self-imposed truth filter already knew there's a reason for it - because he's a thin-skinned crybaby.
- Chicken skin is quite fragile

this always comes to mind when hearing/reading about the trump taco
- As someone who was practically raised on tacos, the way he eats tacos is… Annoying. It’s basically the way northern Americans eat what they call Tex-mex, which typically results in a huge mess. Tipping the taco in one direction or the other results in it spilling, so you’re supposed to tip your head instead. It means your elbow is usually sticking out more, with your arm basically parallel to the floor. Whereas his is basically resting on the table.
  At least he leaned over the plate. That’s the other big rookie move people make, and then they end up with food all over their lap.
  
  Are people misinterpreting your comment as a legit criticism of Obama? Or are they reading a tone where there isn't any? (Maybe the word "annoying" colored the rest of their perception? It's not how I read it, I'm trying to make sense of the downvotes.)
  I thought you were providing your own regional informational tidbit (and a useful one for me, since I usually avoid hard-shelled tacos due to the mess I make.) This advice sounds helpful and I'll be trying it next time I order Tex-mex.
  
  I heard he once ate a taco while also wearing a tan suit. I gasped in horror.
  
  TBF, that's not even a taco. He just put some of his food on a tortilla. It's a common thing to do in Mexican culture.

Because he's insecure.

The US President being able to be raged baited into destroying what is left of the economy is something else.

He calls that negotiation. That's why China ignores him. He doesn't have the actual authority to play that game since tariffs are to be voted by the Congress to be effective. Sooner or later his house of cards will scramble. He is relying on this false pretense of emergency to bypass the Congress for now to play his stupid negotiation game.
- I don't understand how this can be predicated on an "emergency" of fentanyl being transported over the border when he is actively pardoning domestically incarcerated cartel members and escorting their families over the border and handing them green cards (for a $$$$ price).
  
  Pro tip: Trump lies. About everything. Nothing he says has any value.
  
  The whole fentanyl story is bullshit and serves one purpose: ruling by executive orders.
  In fact, there is more fentanyl crossing the border from the USA to Canada than the reverse. This administration is lying all the time to avoid power balance mechanisms of the Constitution.

He tends to get angry when he's called out.
- Like narcissistic assholes do.

referring DJT to a "foreign" food is the greatest insult to trump.
- Trevor Noah has a hilarious bit about tacos from years ago where he calls tacos "the most American food that there is."

Snowflake

It's because he's a narcissist and it goes against his self image of a strongman who is respected, worshipped, and feared.

The real answer is "He's a narcissist". This is just parroting his handler's bullshit damage control.

Guess what? Fucking with the entire national (and, to an extent, global) economy isn’t usually a good way to negotiate. That’s why other presidents didn’t do it frequently. He’s a bull in a china shop, and even some of his supporters are sick of it.

In the White House every day is TACO Tuesday!

- AI?
- I prefer calling him Trump the Chump

Oh... I know EXACTLY why he got angry. The truth hurts, don't it, Donny?

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