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It’s TACO night at the Drudge Report!
The right-leaning news aggregator bit into President Donald Trump Thursday with a banner headline of simply “TACO!” the code for “Trump always chickens out” that’s been passed around Wall Street as an investor strategy on his trade policies.
On top of the site was an AI-generated image of Trump as a Crunchwrapped Supreme leader, complete with a taco suit and taco crown.
The image links to a Los Angeles Times explainer on the TACO controversy.
Trump was caught off-guard Wednesday as CNBC White House correspondent Megan Casella asked Trump if he was aware of the TACO mockery after the swearing-in of Judge Jeanine Pirro as D.C.’s U.S attorney.
He responded with a tirade:
You mean because I reduced China from 145% that I set down to 100% and then down to another number? And I said, you have to open up your whole country. And because I gave the European Union a 50% tax tariff? And they called up
and they said, please, let’s meet right now, please, let’s meet right now.And I said, okay, I’ll give you till June 9th. I actually asked them, I said, what’s the date? Because they weren’t willing to meet. And after I did what I did, they said, we’ll meet any time you want. And we have an end date of July 9th. You call that chickening out? Because we have $14 trillion now invested, committed to investing when Biden didn’t have practically anything.
The Drudge Report’s conservative founder, Matt Drudge, has turned away from Trump in recent years, posting more criticism about his policies — ramping up his rhetoric during the 2024 presidential campaign.