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muriel_volestrangler

(105,386 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 06:06 AM Jul 2025

Trump: the Comprehensive Mexican Food Acronyms

by Mike Barfield in Private Eye magazine in the UK:

TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out
NACHO: Narcissistic Attitude Causes Hateful Outbursts
CHORIZO: Can't Hold Onto Rational Ideas, Zones Out
FRITTATA: Frequently Raises International Tariffs Then Alters Terms Afterwards
FAJITA: Fascist-Adjacent Jerk, Idolising Tyrants Abroad
QUESO: Quite Unlikely Epidermal Shade (Orange)

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Trump: the Comprehensive Mexican Food Acronyms (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 OP
Brilliant! 3catwoman3 Jul 2025 #1
FLAN: Fascistic Lazy-Assed Narcissist demmiblue Jul 2025 #2
Corrupt Hateful Uncaring Racist Rapist Oligarch? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #3
👍 demmiblue Jul 2025 #5
Bonus points for CHORIZO. (nt) Paladin Jul 2025 #4
Cultural appropriation purple_haze Jul 2025 #6
All resulting in incomprehensible verbal diarrhea dalton99a Jul 2025 #7
Burrito: Bloviated Unintelligent Raunchy Rapist In The Oval milestogo Jul 2025 #8
Frittata is Italian. maveric Jul 2025 #9
Oops - I can send that in to Private Eye's Pedantry Corner if you want muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #10

demmiblue

(39,076 posts)
2. FLAN: Fascistic Lazy-Assed Narcissist
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 06:18 AM
Jul 2025

Well done, muriel!

Someone needs to do CHURRO… my brain is not working yet.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,386 posts)
10. Oops - I can send that in to Private Eye's Pedantry Corner if you want
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:56 AM
Jul 2025

That's not a criticism of you - it's a fine tradition of the magazine to point out slips in articles or cartoons (they have, for instance, had arguments going about the meaning of "triplet" in music going for 3 issues now, with the original cartoonist supplying follow-up cartoons. And they had to call it "Pedantry Corner" to avoid arguments in it of "Pedants Corner" v. "Pedant's Corner" v. "Pedants' Corner" ).

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