Don't Tell Trump About "TACO", "POTATO", "CASPER CORP" or "CART O’ PENIS BACON, MEL"
And definitely don't tell him about "IS BLOOM THIS RICIN"
Recently, Wall Street coined a term: “TACO trade”. “TACO” stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out”, which is the mantra for traders who have noticed Trump’s pattern of threatening astronomical tariffs, seeking a “deal”, and then backing down. The traders are right, of course: Trump is rattling the global economy and causing damage, but the sturm und drang usually culminates in a press release along the lines of “DEAR LEADER SECURES GLORIOUS TWO PERCENT DISCOUNT ON GLUE STICKS IMPORTED FROM BOLIVIA!!!”
Disastrously, though, Trump recently found out about “TACO”. A reporter — presumably from the NARC Daily News — asked Trump about the term, and Trump reacted badly. He began by describing his master negotiating strategy of opening with a ridiculous bluff, even though one could argue that announcing “I’M BLUFFING” to a group of reporters is not something a master negotiator would do. But the bigger problem was the way that Trump bristled at the question: “That’s the nastiest question,” he said, “Don’t ever say that”. There’s a danger that Trump might react to the TACO talk by obstinately not backing down, at which point our problems would grow even larger.
As one commenter put it: “The first rule of TACO trade is that you don’t tell Trump about TACO trade.” Hear hear. A defiant Trump set on seeing his idiotic schemes through to their disastrous conclusions is a clear and present danger. It’s bad enough that Trump found out about “TACO” — if he finds out about POTATO, CASPER CORP, or CART O’ PENIS BACON, MEL, then we’ll have real problems.