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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Wall Street traders have developed a biting new acronym for a strategy that's become surprisingly lucrative for President Donald Trump's whiplash-inducing trade policy: TACO " "Trump Always Chickens Out." Reportedly first coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, the term has quickly gained traction among investors who are profiting from what they say is a predictable pattern: Trump threatens steep tariffs, the markets plunge, and days later he backs off in a way that prompts a rebound.

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Trump has always been a coward.

The evidence for that is voluminous.

This is just the latest.

I am thinking that he gets most of his emotional rewards from just plaing Big Man and making the threats and treating other people like they are yo-yos.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-28 09:26 AM | Reply

He's not chickening out. He's reusing the same scheme to profit off his position. It's just become too predictable, which means something else will take its place soon, something that will likely be even more destructive.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-28 10:25 AM | Reply

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