The internet is using TACO memes to call Trump a chicken and the results are hilarious
Taco Tuesday is the best day of the week, but Wednesday may usurp it as the day President Donald Trump threw a fit after learning what TACO stands for.
Amid the stock market's dramatic ups and downs as Trump institutes tariffs and then calls them off, CNBC's Megan Casella asked the president about Wall Street's new nickname for him during the May 28 event to swear in former Fox News host Jeannine Pirro as the new interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.
'Wall Street analysts have coined a new term called the 'TACO Trade.' They're saying Trump always chickens out on your tariff threats, and that's why markets are higher this week,' she said.
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Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong coined the term 'TACO Trade' earlier this month, and Trump predictably got angry when he head that it stand for 'Trump Always Chickens Out.'
"I've never heard that,' Trump said. 'You mean because I reduced China from 145 percent that I set down to 100, and then down to another number, and I said you have to open up your whole country?" Trump said. "And because I gave the European Union a 50 percent tax—tariff—and they called up and said, 'Please let's meet right now.'"
Trump has done about faces on the tariffs he's imposed on both China and the EU, and also put announced 'recirpocal' tariffs on dozens of countries in April before announcing a '90 day pause' on tariffs for all of the countries except for China, CNN reports.
The president went on to brag about the U.S. being the 'hottest country anywhere in the world' under his administration before firing back at Casella by falling back on his tried and true misogynistic insult for women. "That's a nasty question. To me, that's the nastiest question,' he said.
Somebody should really tell Trump about the Streisand Effect, the phenomenon where an attempt to censor information makes it go viral, because the internet immediately latched on to this new insult and within hours #TACO had gone viral and people started pumping out hilarious and insulting TACO Trump memes.
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There are AI-generated memes of Trump in a chicken suit, ones where his head has been turned into a taco, people joking that the Village People should now be singing 'Taco, Taco Man…I wanna be a Taco Man,' and people resurfacing old videos of Trump dancing with people in chicken suits.
In short? If you need a little joy and serotonin in your life this week, Trump Taco memes are the answer.
Keep scrolling to see the funniest Trump memes the internet has to offer!
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#TACO
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"Trump: I don't wanna #TACO bout it"
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"Trump always chickens out."
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"Congrats to CNBC's Megan Cassella for winning the 'Nasty' Question badge of honour. She is the only reporter with the balls to not bend a knee and ask the Toddler in Chief softball questions."
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"Taco, Taco Man… I wanna be a Taco Man"
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*laughing emojis*
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"Can confirm #TACO"
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"Did she say 'TACO' stands for Trump Always Chickens Out?"
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"#TACO"
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"Taco-Taco Man. I've got to be a Taco Man."
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"THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS Because Trump Always Chickens Out"
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"Putin is laughing at Trump. Bibi is laughing at Trump. Iran is laughing at Trump. The world is laughing at Trump. The United States has never looked weaker. The United States have never been weaker. Good luck digging out of this hole."
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"TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO TACO."
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"Right now outside Trump International Hotel at Columbus Circle."
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"Million dollar idea!"
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"Let's go TACO"
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"I should make it my profile picture."
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"Always. #TACO"
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"#TACO"
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"Breaking Trump announces 1 million percent tariffs on all Tacos!"
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"Trump's mad—if you RT this you'll get deported #TACO on tariffs"
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"TACO #TACOTrump Trump Always Chickens Out"
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