Trump responded angrily toward a reporter in the White House after she told him that Wall Street investors are using a new acronym, TACO, to describe the ongoing tariff turmoil caused by Trump. The acronym stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” and was reportedly coined by a Financial Times columnist.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Crazy how Lèse-majesté works. You’re telling me the king can point at me and laugh and fling rotten fruit, but if I do it to him then his guards cut my head off?

      I guess this proves the king has the full power of the armed forces at his command and uses it to inspire terror and reflexive compliance in his subjects is just thin-skinned.