Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) is a term that gained prominence in May 2025 after many threats and reversals during the trade war U.S. president Donald Trump initiated with his administration's "Liberation Day" tariffs.

The charitable explanation is that he chickens out when confronted with real backlash.The less charitable explanation is that he 'chickens' out after the appropriate bribe has been paid to him.

tracker1 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I think that the tariffs are what he said they were... a starting point for pushing (re)negotiation, and that has largely been successful. This ruling doesn't roll back all those trade deals.

	▲	mullingitover 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The tariffs were a backdoor way of passing a nationwide regressive sales tax without the pesky work of passing a law by legitimate democratic process.
	▲	ajross 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Good grief. 1. That's transparently NOT what the white house said the tariffs were for. 2. There has been NO significant change (via negotiation or not) in non-tariff trade policy under this administration. Essentially all those "announcements" of "deals" were, were just the acts of rolling back the tariffs themselves. No one caved. We didn't get any advantage. It's just absolutely amazing to me the degree of epistemological isolation the right has created for it in the modern US.