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sop

(15,693 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 06:55 AM May 2025

'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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'Wall Street investors mocking 'chicken' Trump with humiliating acronym' (Original Post) sop May 2025 OP
Oh the irony................ Lovie777 May 2025 #1
Or the irony of someone who hates Mexicans with passion being called Taco steelyboo May 2025 #13
TRUE C_U_L8R May 2025 #2
I can think of a thousand things he's doing that are a lot worse than "chickening out." This seems like Scrivener7 May 2025 #3
#TACO now going viral BoRaGard May 2025 #4
Insider trading manipulation... JT45242 May 2025 #5
TRUMP IS A LOSER. Dulcinea May 2025 #6
I hope there are TACO protest signs from coast to coast... Paladin May 2025 #7
I do, too! calimary May 2025 #8
T.A.C.O. - I love it! Exp May 2025 #9
Or TICL Picaro May 2025 #10
Wall Street's new term- TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) is pissing off trump LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #11
TACO Trump sop May 2025 #12
Switching from Donny 2-Scoops to Donny Taco!! Then ask him if he plans to 'Run for the Border' Scalded Nun May 2025 #14
He would love radical noodle May 2025 #15
From 2016 toon Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #16
Invasion in 1.0 Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #17
The Dead Chicken Bounce did well for me this week bucolic_frolic May 2025 #18
TACO!!!!!!! paleotn May 2025 #19

Lovie777

(19,910 posts)
1. Oh the irony................
Wed May 28, 2025, 07:01 AM
May 2025

with shithole playing the stock market like a seesaw, while investors making a killing which by the way does not trickle down, can still make fun of him. Where is shithole's outrage?

Scrivener7

(56,882 posts)
3. I can think of a thousand things he's doing that are a lot worse than "chickening out." This seems like
Wed May 28, 2025, 07:27 AM
May 2025

Wall Street investors are idiots who believe his crap.

JT45242

(3,583 posts)
5. Insider trading manipulation...
Wed May 28, 2025, 07:51 AM
May 2025

I'll bet apartheid Clyde, howler monkey, magat Mike, gym, etc. all get tips to short sell just before a tariff announcement and are told to buy just before mango Mussolini announces he changed his mind.

Rinse and repeat and that group can clear some serious payoffs.

Paladin

(31,464 posts)
7. I hope there are TACO protest signs from coast to coast...
Wed May 28, 2025, 08:43 AM
May 2025

...the day of trump's sieg heil birthday parade in DC. Way past time for overwhelming national outrage.

calimary

(87,535 posts)
8. I do, too!
Wed May 28, 2025, 12:05 PM
May 2025

I need to add “TACO” to the back of my “NO, Donald!” sign. Then it can do double duty!

Picaro

(2,169 posts)
10. Or TICL
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:01 PM
May 2025

Trump Is Completely Looney

I could do this all day. Some of them are a bit filthy. But look at what and who dealing with.

Trump Is A Cunt or TIAC

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,691 posts)
11. Wall Street's new term- TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) is pissing off trump
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:42 PM
May 2025

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…  

Trump: I kick out?

Reporter: Chicken out.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-28T17:13:22.578Z

Wall Street has caught on to trump's taco tactics

Scalded Nun

(1,478 posts)
14. Switching from Donny 2-Scoops to Donny Taco!! Then ask him if he plans to 'Run for the Border'
Wed May 28, 2025, 04:32 PM
May 2025

radical noodle

(10,363 posts)
15. He would love
Wed May 28, 2025, 05:36 PM
May 2025

trump always manipulates markets as it speaks to what he perceives as powerful. "Chickens out" is not a term he finds admirable the way manipulation is.

paleotn

(20,777 posts)
19. TACO!!!!!!!
Wed May 28, 2025, 08:20 PM
May 2025

As well all know, too much TACO leads to BLOAT...(Biggest Loser Of All Time)

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