I’m sure you’re aware of the acronym TACO: “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
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It’s become the go-to meme whenever Trump says he’s going to do something and then backs down. Some examples include the 472 times he threatened tariffs on other countries, that whole annexing Greenland thing, and threat after threat to fire Fed Chair, Jerome Powell.
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You’ll see TACO used in headlines:
At protests:
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And I’m pretty sure it’ll be a big Halloween costume this year.
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Well, now it looks like the phrase has made it to Japan.
A Japanese news show appeared to dig into the terminology.
Like, they got really deep with it.
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And now that clip of the host saying TACO is going super viral, like it has been viewed over 5 million times:
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The replies are good; we have, “future historians will go feral over this.”
Law & Order legend Chris Meloni reposted it with the caption, “Respected like never before.”
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And this person pointed out: “****, they even broke out a chart of all the times Trump TACO’d”
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In case you were wondering why it’s hitting so hard in Japan, the Washington Post reported that the word TACO sounds like the Japanese word for octopus, “tako.” Go figure!
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Thoughts???
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