Democrats Will Hand Out Free Tacos to Mock Trump

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“Trump always chickens out—we’re just bringing the tacos to match.”

Democrats will hand out free tacos to mock Trump

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-06-03T15:23:29.687Z

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/taco-truck-donald-trump-always-chickens-out/

The Democratic Party has commissioned a taco truck to serve free lunch outside the Republican National Committee’s DC headquarters beginning at noon on Tuesday.

The giveaway is not just to mark taco Tuesday, says a Democratic National Committee staffer who tipped Mother Jones off about the free grub. The food is also meant to get under the skin of President Donald Trump, who has recently become associated with the acronym TACO—shorthand for Trump Always Chickens Out.

Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong coined the term in early May to describe Trump’s habit of announcing sweeping tariff threats only to—in the wake of the inevitable market plunge—renege and give countries more time to negotiate. Most recently he delayed a previously announced 50 percent tariff on the European Union by more than a month, from June 1 to July 9.

Financial analysts have shared similar but less cheeky descriptions of Trump’s tendency to backtrack. Shortly after Trump announced those now-delayed EU tariffs, Salomon Fiedler of the German bank Berenberg offered his own prediction. “Wild threats by Trump are not unusual,” he said, according to the New York Times. “Given the damage the U.S. would do to itself with this tariff, he will probably not follow through.”

But Democrats are betting that saying TACO just rolls off the tongue better. Trump “talks a big game, caves, and then leaves working families and small businesses to deal with the fallout,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement. “Trump always chickens out—we’re just bringing the tacos to match

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1. Wahahaha!

It will be interesting to see how many greedy repukes can resist free food.

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2. Already a big crowd of staffers here for the tacos:

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3. Vance knocks Democrats over taco truck outside GOP building

This makes me smile. We need a number of taco trucks out for the June 14 events

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5330582-taco-truck-democrats-mock-trump/

Vice President Vance slammed Democrats Tuesday over a taco truck they deployed to mock President Trump with free food outside the GOP headquarters on Capitol Hill.

“We have the lamest opposition in American history,” Vance wrote on the social media platform X in response to a post about the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s taco truck that features a depiction of Trump in a giant chicken costume with the words “Trump Always Chickens Out.”

The Trump administration has been hit with the “TACO” moniker on Wall Street over the president’s penchant to renege on policies after they prove to be unpopular.

Democrats have embraced the phrase to more broadly blast the president over his policies.

“Trump always chickens out — we’re just bringing the tacos to match,” DNC chair Ken Martin said in a statement on the food truck’s message. “Instead of realizing his tariff chaos is wrecking the economy, Trump continues to drag America towards more economic pain, and the rest of the world sees Trump for exactly what he is: a chicken.”

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4. This makes me smile