What is the ‘TACO trade’ on Wall Street?

[Tug]

2 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

The biggest haters of the US of A are the MAGA people. They hate all it stands for and want to turn it into a turd reich.

I dono a lot of them are misinformed partisan and strongly believe that they are correct they are realizing just how flawed trump is.most are thinking they are doing the right thing and are decent people just deeply misinformed.they are starting to come around.

[Mavideol]

maybe this is part of his standard comments practice, it started back in his 1st term and he keeps using using now, back in May 9 he said it, May 19 again and last week another one, he has another one also to divert attention when faced with the truth  ""FAKE NEWS""..... how can anybody or any country take the joker seriously

Trump's timeline? Always "two weeks"

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trumps-timeline-always-two-weeks-1513302785

 

‘Fake news’: A guide to Trump’s favourite phrase – and the dangers it obscures

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-fake-news-counter-history-b732873.html

 

Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[blaze master]

5 minutes ago, Tug said:

I dono a lot of them are misinformed partisan and strongly believe that they are correct they are realizing just how flawed trump is.most are thinking they are doing the right thing and are decent people just deeply misinformed.they are starting to come around.

 

This is the best projecting comment ever. 

[NanLaew]

8 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

Thank you for that totally irrelevant reply. 

 

And thanks for acknowledging it with yours.

[Artisi]

5 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Taco?

🌮🌮🌮🌮  😅

[NanLaew]

8 minutes ago, Tug said:

I dono a lot of them are misinformed partisan and strongly believe that they are correct they are realizing just how flawed trump is.most are thinking they are doing the right thing and are decent people just deeply misinformed.they are starting to come around.

 

Sorry, but the people that rewards the likes of Taylor Green, Tuberville, Gaetz, Boebert and Jordan with their vote just ain't that decent.

[blaze master]

8 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

And thanks for acknowledging it with yours.

 

Oh you so slick. You sure showed me. 

[NanLaew]

4 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

Oh you so slick. You sure showed me. 

 

Like shooting fish in a barrel, you are.

[BLMFem]

3 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Like shooting fish in a barrel, you are.

Or like shooting tacos in a taqueria.

[Tug]

12 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Sorry, but the people that rewards the likes of Taylor Green, Tuberville, Gaetz, Boebert and Jordan with their vote just ain't that decent.

Agreed that’s blind partisanship and is vile in my view.

[Tug]

1 minute ago, BLMFem said:

Or like shooting tacos in a taqueria.

I like taco they are wayyy better than big Mack’s and fried chicken!

[BLMFem]

1 minute ago, Tug said:

I like taco they are wayyy better than big Mack’s and fried chicken!

I agree wholeheartedly although fried chicken done right (not KFC) is so good. But a proper taco is just unbeatable.

[blaze master]

22 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Like shooting fish in a barrel, you are.

 

Ok.

[gargamon]

 

[jas007]

On 5/30/2025 at 8:39 AM, frank83628 said:

So, if you know he will chicken out of any tariffs there is no reason to get hysterical the next time he puts some on.

That's what's so great about Wall Street, lately. They get hysterical every time Trump makes a move, even though the hysteria is not really warranted.  It never fails.  And it's a good way to make money.  Just BTFD, as the saying goes. 

[metisdead]

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[BLMFem]

TACO, FAFO, MEGA (Make Europe Great Again), MAGA (Make America Go Away), YOLO.

The connection to Trump described in the article below.

 

 

From TACO to FAFO, investors love parodies of Trump acronyms

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/taco-fafo-investors-love-parodies-trump-acronyms-2025-05-30/

 

 

 

[Magictoad]

On 5/30/2025 at 10:13 AM, Yagoda said:

Your statement should be prefaced with the words :

 

"I hate the United States and Donald Trump the rapist convicted felon grifter manchild draft dodging liar election stealing racist dictator and his filthy brainwashed trumpette trumpsters jan 6 insurrectionists....."

Draft dodging is now an insult. LOL Since when does a government have the right to scoop up young men; torture them; and send them off the kill innocent people or be killed. DRAFT DODGER SEEMS PRETTY SMART TO ME.

Grifter & man-child both seem pretty  subjective insults to me. I would have thought they apply to Biden more; especially man-child and perhaps grifter also....

[JAG]

The whole "Taco" meme, whilst amusing, is also indicative of a significant result to Trump's economic policies (if they can be called that).

 

Wall Street and the rest of the world simply don't take him seriously, the bewildering blizzard of tariff announcements and withdrawals, reductions and increases, which appear to be pulled out of a hat (I was about to say from somewhere else but realise that many readers may be eating their breakfasts) make it impossible for anyone trading with or doing business involving imported goods to plan, invest or function.

 

He excuses it as negotiations, but the ground on which he stands shifts so rapidly and unpredictably that negotiations are meaningless. What he is actually doing is bullying - issuing threats in the hope that people and countries will debase them themselves in front of him: in his own course yet memorable phrase " kiss his arse".

 

The trouble is, that whilst his threatened actions may damage the trading partners economies, they also do damage to the US, real damage. The results in the tourist and automotive industries are early evidence.

 

He may hark back to the "golden era" pre 1914 when economic and trade policy was built upon tariffs, but the world's trade system, and the US economy were way way less interconnected and dependent upon trade then.

[Mavideol]

aside fro the TACO he also uses a lot of FAFO, tremendous, that's bad, very bad, fake news, etc....

From TACO, FAFO to MEGA: Acronyms investors are loving in Donald Trump era - Check full list

https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/from-taco-fafo-to-mega-acronyms-investors-are-loving-in-donald-trump-era-check-full-list-11748705929018.html

 

[BLMFem]

The consequences of TACO are becoming apparent.

 

Trump’s foreign policy frustrations are piling up

 

"Some world leaders appear to have calculated that the US president is not as powerful as he thinks he is. He keeps being ignored and humiliated by Russian President Vladimir Putin who is defying the US effort to end the war in Ukraine. Russian media is now portraying Trump as the tough talker who always blinks and never imposes consequences. 

The president also thought that he could shape China to his will by facing down leader Xi Jinping in a trade war, but he misunderstood Chinese politics. The one thing an authoritarian in Beijing can never do is bow down to a US president."