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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

He had not yet heard the term, according to a senior White House official who acknowledged to CNN that the president was caught off guard. Trump had said as much at the time, saying “I’ve never heard that” before calling it the “nastiest question.”

“He thought the reporter was calling him a chicken,” the official said, adding that Trump was “reasonably” frustrated with the phrase.

The acronym was coined in early May by a Financial Times columnist and is now used as shorthand by some on Wall Street to indicate that traders shouldn’t fret too much about Trump’s tariff threats, since he usually backs down.

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Donald Trump has very thin skin.

Everyone around him knows it.

World leaders know it as well.

[-] bender223@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If trump always chickens out, might it also be appropriate to call him Orange Chicken? 🤭

Edit: someone already mentioned orange chicken

Please stop making fun of trump, he gonna ban tacos!!!

[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this always comes to mind when hearing/reading about the trump taco

As someone who was practically raised on tacos, the way he eats tacos is… Annoying. It’s basically the way northern Americans eat what they call Tex-mex, which typically results in a huge mess. Tipping the taco in one direction or the other results in it spilling, so you’re supposed to tip your head instead. It means your elbow is usually sticking out more, with your arm basically parallel to the floor. Whereas his is basically resting on the table.

At least he leaned over the plate. That’s the other big rookie move people make, and then they end up with food all over their lap.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

TBF, that's not even a taco. He just put some of his food on a tortilla. It's a common thing to do in Mexican culture.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are people misinterpreting your comment as a legit criticism of Obama? Or are they reading a tone where there isn't any? (Maybe the word "annoying" colored the rest of their perception? It's not how I read it, I'm trying to make sense of the downvotes.)

I thought you were providing your own regional informational tidbit (and a useful one for me, since I usually avoid hard-shelled tacos due to the mess I make.) This advice sounds helpful and I'll be trying it next time I order Tex-mex.

[-] despoticruin@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

Those are also soft shells, allowing that grip to seal the back side of the taco, preventing food from falling out of the tortilla. You can then eat without holding your head completely sideways, as shown. You still lose juice, but that's a losing battle no matter what, hence eating over the plate. Idk man, I think that guy might just be a rookie at the soft taco game.

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🎶🎵 O-o-o-orange! Ch-ch-ch-chicken!

Trump’s an orange chicken and he’s stupid as hell!

Ooh, mamacita, he sees the economy fell!

Stock prices falling, and others are giving us flack!

Ooh, orange chicken’s having a TACO attaaaaaaaaack! 🎵 🎶

[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago
[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Imagine voting for this sad bastard. Your self-respect would have to be in the basement.

Why the fuck did it take so long for people to start asking him actual questions?

He illegally kicked out unfriendly media

In the past 24 hours the Elon drug use has come from the NYT and this is coming from CNBC. I’m calling bullshit on that excuse.

[-] electricyarn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Elon has been ousted by Trump insiders, perhaps that is why he is getting bad press.

[-] GorGor@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

And they need to keep asking questions that piss him off.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 0 points 1 week ago
[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 week ago
[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

When he puckers his lips it looks like an ahole

[-] tartarin@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

He calls that negotiation. That's why China ignores him. He doesn't have the actual authority to play that game since tariffs are to be voted by the Congress to be effective. Sooner or later his house of cards will scramble. He is relying on this false pretense of emergency to bypass the Congress for now to play his stupid negotiation game.

[-] lucelu2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I don't understand how this can be predicated on an "emergency" of fentanyl being transported over the border when he is actively pardoning domestically incarcerated cartel members and escorting their families over the border and handing them green cards (for a $$$$ price).

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because he always acts this way when someone asks him a question he doesn't like. Refuses to answer, then gaslights and calls them "nasty". Typical narcissist shit.

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