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From The Bullwark, Jonathan Last offers an analysis. He believes the “TACO” label — coined by a columnist at the Financial Times — has the potential to actually hurt Donald Trump:
It’s simple. Trump Always Chickens Out. You can put that phrase anywhere, apply it to anything, and everyone knows what it means.
It’s meme-able. You have the slogan. You have the word mark. And you have an universally recognizable image. Hell, there’s even a pre-built emoji for it. ?
It’s universal. You can apply it to any situation. Trump pulls back on tariffs? TACO. Trump gives in to Putin? TACO. Trump increases the national debt? TACO.
It’s organic. No Democratic strategist came up with TACO. It’s an observation that emerged from the finance world—from the very same bros who voted for Trump in the first place. You can feel the disdain of his own supporters dripping off of it.
It hits at something deep inside Trump. It’s about his soul. It’s about his weakness.
“By hitting him with TACO over and over, you (a) reveal his pull-backs as weakness and (b) dare him to go through with the stuff that will screw up the real world — and, in theory, create pain for his movement.”
Pensito Illustration Elon Musk is leaving after DOGE saved the nation hundreds of bucks.
Now it’s back to business to focus on spaceships, Mars and cyber trucks.
All in all, Musk had a pretty good run,
And breaking the government sure was fun!
But he left a parting shot for Trump: “Your big, beautiful bill sucks!”
Pensito Illustration Donald Trump is nothing if not a predictable lout,
And investors are profiting on his tariff turnabouts.
On Wall Street they’ve already made
Something called the “TACO trade,”
‘Cause when it comes to tariffs, “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
Justice deleted. Trump’s white supremacist Department of Justice is dropping negotiations for court-approved settlements in the murders in 2020 by police officers of both Breonna Taylor in St. Louis and George Floyd in Minneapolis. A spokseperson for the department called the consent decrees “unjustified.”
Taylor was shot by officers in her bed, and Floyd was murdered by an officer who suffocated him on a sidewalk with his knee. The two cases led to Black Lives Matter protests nationwide. To underscore the white supremacist message it means to send, the DOJ announced its decision just days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, on May 25, 2020.
As suggested in its Project 2025 manifesto, the Trump regime intends to instigate a new wave of protests this summer so that it can impose martial law on the country which could lead to delaying or canceling the midterm elections next year.
Joder y descubrirlo. MAGA rapper and Cuban immigrant Márquez Duany, better known as El Funky, has less than 30 days to leave the U.S. or face deportation and likely imprisonment in Cuba, where his music helped fuel the largest anti-government protests in Cuba in decades. “If I could vote, I would have voted for Trump,” he said recently. “He’s the strongest president when it comes to Cuba.”
Gonna need a bigger Sharpie. The Climate Change Denier-in-Chief has hollowed out the federal government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just in time for the 2025 hurricane season. NOAA’s weather forecasting and hazard-warning branch – critically understaffed ahead of the hurricane season, several scientists told the BBC. Six to 10 hurricanes are predicted for the Atlantic and Caribbean region from June to November this year.
Trump’s deplorable speech on trophy wives. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) weighed in on Trump’s deranged commencement address at West Point on May 24.
“I don’t think that those who have gone through West Point expected to have their commander-in-chief address them and start talking about trophy wives or start talking [about] how he has so many investigations,” Crockett said. “It is time for Republicans to start calling him out and start questioning his mental acuity, and whether or not he is equipped to serve mentally. We know when it comes down to his criminality, he is not qualified to serve, but this is just absolutely deplorable.”
Pensito Illustration That Trump meme coin surely is an amazing wonder!
It’s lightning in a bottle — all light, no thunder.
There’s absolutely nothing stealth
About how Trump’s enriching himself,
He’s just enthusiastically embracing the Politics of Plunder.
Elon throttled Starlink because Ukranians were killing Russians,
But by throttling it, Elon enabled Russians to kill Ukranians.
So the world’s richest, weirdest guy,
Gets to decide who lives and who dies?
That’s too much power in the hands of a dude who wants to be a Martian.
“Stephen Miller is a stone-cold racist. His track record speaks for itself, and I’ve got zero interest in working with that kind of individual.”
— “House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller a ‘stone-cold racist’ and said he can’t work with him,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Take, for example, the French Revolution. Remember when Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’? Now, is that a problem of accountability and tyranny, a corrupt government? Or is it a problem of affordability and standard of living? It’s both! Authoritarianism and tyranny are extremely expensive for the people. And it’s the exact same thing when you go down the line with Donald Trump. So, are we going to go after the corruption? Yeah, you’re damn right. And are we going to go after affordability and making people’s lives easier? Yeah, you’re damn right. We’re going to do both of them.”
“Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”
— Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.
<2>U.S. inflation was higher than expected last month as the rising prices that powered sweeping Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections appear likely to pose ongoing challenges for the White House and the Federal Reserve, the Associated Press reported. The consumer price index rose 0.4% from September to October, the Labor Department said Tuesday, down from 0.6% the previous month. The government did not report a yearly inflation rate because last year’s government shutdown meant no data was released for October 2025. But excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 0.3%, the same as the preceding month. Both figures were a tenth of a point higher than forecast, and at an annual rate would be well above the Fed’s 2% target.
President Donald Trump’s approval rating held near the lowest level of his political career, depressed by national concerns over rising prices that tanked his Republican Party in last week’s midterm elections, according to ?a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday. Some 32% of Americans approve of Trump’s performance ?in the White House, unchanged from two prior Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted between late ?October and early November. It was one percentage point higher than his 31% rating ?in a Reuters/Ipsos poll in mid-October, the lowest of his career in politics, reported Reuters.
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats, reports Florida Phoenix. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Women make up 35.5% of all state legislative candidates this cycle. Currently, women hold about one-third of state legislative seats across the country — a record level of representation but nowhere near parity.
“Prediction markets about the 2026 midterm elections have surpassed $1.4 billion in trading volume as Election Day fast approaches,” CNN reports. “This year has seen massive growth in the prediction industry, where people can bet on real-world events like sports, entertainment and the weather. While small-scale election markets have been around for a while, they gained traction before the 2024 presidential election and have seen huge numbers for the 2026 midterms.”
G. Elliot Morris: “Low-knowledge 2024 voters say they backed Trump by 8 points, according to our poll. Today they give him a net job approval of ?27, a 35-point shift. Compare that to Trump’s approval rating among voters who got both questions right: These voters backed Harris by 1 point and now give Trump a net ?24 approval, a 23-point shift. … Low-information voters have moved against Trump at a higher rate than high-information voters, by 12 points.”
