Trump Lays an Egg

TACO is More Than a Wall St. Acronym; It Encapsulates Trump to a T

At first, I didn’t hear the question. I just heard Trump’s response to it, and particularly how he took offense to it. He seemed genuinely hurt by the comment and defended himself like an 8 year old. “Nasty” and “Offensive” he returned, as if he had never been criticized before. Later, I read it was about someone referring to his tarriffs as “taco,” which I didn’t quite understand since they impacted far more countries than places he’s deporting citizens to; you know, the kind of slanted question someone would pose if they were only there to slander the person they posed it to.

Then I saw the clip again and HEARD the question and the explanation and at first smirked, then laughed, then nodded. It was PERFECT. TACO. “Trump ALWAYS Chickens Out.” It was acronomical nirvana. It appears Wall Street has baked in Trump’s on again/off again flakiness and assessed he’ll never go through with tarriffs, because he ALWAYS CHICKENS OUT when faced with adversity. My God, it was so on point, and the perfect analogy. It’s already lending itself to some of the best memes I’ve seen in years.

Here’s Adam Kinzinger:

And Charlie Sykes:

You could almost envision the McNuggets flying across the Oval Office and the Honey Mustard being smeared on the walls.

The beauty of it is that Trump has staked his entire image and persona as being opposed to Mexico and Latin America. That Hispanics shifted towards him this past election is one of the greatest anomalies of political life I’ve witnessed but speaks more to other things (working class votes vs. non-working class, etc.) than his antagonism and hatred for anything not with traditional standards of blue blood success. To him, Mexico is a shithole country. He ships detainees to El Salvador and Venezuela. He thinks any Guatemalan is a member of MS-13. To label him “TACO Trump” is such a glaring insult to him that the anger evidenced in his face through the orange bronzer made him look like a chalupa.

It’s enough to make you remember this SNL Skit from 2004 when Trump hosted the show, where he was hawking Trump’s Chickens. A skit that has not so mysteriously disappeared from tne SNL site when he ran for office back in 2015. (***Bonus points for his opening with “Cock a Doodle Doo Folks!”—please, oh PLEASE put that in an attack ad).

As Bania would say on Seinfeld, “That’s GOLD Jerry!, It’s GOLD!”

Trump is not one who takes to being made fun of very well. That it was WALL STREET doing it, a group of people who’s attention and respect he has craved and catered to his entire life, has to be downright humiliating. But what makes it so damning is that it’s 100% RIGHT! He DOES chicken out. ALL. THE. TIME. He’s not one to be cautious in making a decision and then sticking with it, he’s more the kind that acts impulsively and then backtracks. It’s stupid and cowardly, and demonstrates (the lack of) his decisionmaking process. He talks big, but retreats when the shit hits the fan. He can’t stick with his plan, because that would only make things (and his approval) worse. It’s why he hires people to break things, and then fires them when they broke them. He’s a toddler who doesn’t know better, and then when things need to be fixed because of his actions screams out “Who, ME???”

As if to confirm that Trump’s Tarriff War was downright stupid and illegal, a three judge panel at the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (A Reagan appointee, an Obama appointee and a TRUMP APPOINTEE) unanimously called Trump’s tarriffs unconstitutional ON THE SAME DAY AS THE TACO COMMENT.

I mentioned earlier this year that what was occurring in America was not a coup. Liberals of course loved to scream at me about it with their hair on fire calling me a fascist for even insinuating that. But if it were, there would be no recourse. There would be no institution that could stop or even prevent Trump from doing anything. I understood then (and many didn’t) that the machineries of government and society move slowly, that institutions need time to absorb and for lawsuits to meander their way through the system. It wasn’t a coup, but I totally understand why it felt like one at the time, because all we could do THEN was sit and watch until other institutions weighed in.

And now those CHICKENS have come home to roost. (See what I did there?). There’s more than one ROOSTER in the HENHOUSE of American Government, and they are finally getting around to the PECKING order of how things go. It’s so tasty I need some sweet and sour sauce just to savor it.

As for Trump, he can go cluck off. And what I mean by that, is that this Chicken thing is going to stick to him like glue; he’s never going to get rid of it because the Chicken Suit fits him so perfectly.

All this food talk has got me hungry for a Cheesy Supreme Burrito and Chicken Quesadilla. Yo quiero Taco Bell.

PurpleAmerica’s Culture Corner

I once met the San Diego Chicken (Ted Giannoulas) at a Wisconsin Flyer’s basketball game back in the ‘80s. He was the King of the Mascots at the time, and if you watched “The Baseball Bunch” with Johnny Bench, he was the comic relief. So in honor of Trump’s Chicken Call Out, I give you, The San Diego Chicken.

PurpleAmerica’s Obscure Fact of the Day

Chickens are the closest living relative to Triassic Era Dinosaurs.

PurpleAmerica’s Final Word on the Subject

“COCK A DOODLE DOO FOLKS!”— Donald Trump on SNL.

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