Trumpiana: Taco, Tako, Takou, TACO-ru?

Trump’s moving deadlines spark TACO memes around the world taking on local acronyms and idioms

Donald Trump was hopping mad. After five weeks of blasting by his expensive war toys, a defiant Iran had declared victory choking the vital Strait of Hormuz sending oil prices rocketing and economies around the world reeling.

The commander-in-chief then unleashed a more potent weapon hoping to achieve what his generals could not with the world’s most powerful war machine – an F-bomb.




“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Trump wrote in an expletive-laden message on Truth Social on Easter Sunday. “Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

As Democrats decried his “ranting like an unhinged madman,” some Republicans cringed, and Tehran remained defiant, Trump fired another dire warning to Iran Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if it didn’t strike a deal to cease hostilities and reopen the strait by the 8 p.m. deadline.


Just 90 minutes before his threatened deadline, Trump announced that he had accepted a two-week ceasefire with Iran. “The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East,” he wrote on Truth Social.

Earlier amid dozens of threats and escalating rhetoric toward Iran, Trump backed away from his threat to control its oil.

“I’d like to take the oil because it’s there for the taking,” he told reporters at the White House easter egg roll with a giant bunny by his side, “Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.”

Trump’s bluff and bluster amid moving deadlines sparked TACO “Trump Always Chickens Out” memes around the world, taking on local acronyms – Tako, Takou, TACO-ru – and idioms, such as “Trump always deflates” in France and “Trump always wets himself” in Italy, according to a Washington Post report.

And as Iranians acted coy insisting on their demands — stoppage of Israeli attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Irani control over tanker transit through the Strait of Hormuz — as Vice President JD Vance reached Pakistan for talks, an enraged Trump shot off another intemperate post, “The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!”


“The Iranians don’t seem to realize they have no cards, other than a short term extortion of the World by using International Waterways,” he wrote suggesting in another earlier post, “The Iranians are better at handling the Fake News Media, and ‘Public Relations,’ than they are at fighting!”

And as a growing chorus of once ‘Ultra MAGA’, Trump supporters fumed about Iran in replies to his posts on Truth Social, he retorted with another lengthy rant naming some prominent conservative media figures he calls “losers.”

“They think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” he wrote. “No Panicans” the White House rebuked the doubters with a picture of a smug Trump with his finger on the lips.

And as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who flatters him as ‘daddy,’ came calling, he chided NATO allies for not doing more to support his war in Iran, but did not pull out of the alliance as he had threatened earlier.

“None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!! he complained. “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,” he wrote. “REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!”

And continuing his favorite pastime of media bashing, Trump upbraided “The Wall Street Journal, one of the worst and most inaccurate ‘Editorial Boards’ in the World” for stating he “declared premature victory in Iran,” and “The Failing New York Times and Fake News CNN” for reporting “a totally FAKE TEN POINT PLAN on the Iran negotiations.”

But amid growing discontent among the populace over pump pains and runaway prices, King Donald had his priorities clear — to build massive monuments to himself and and name everything Trump.

As a federal judge blocked construction of Trump’s $400 million big beautiful ballroom, the White House went in appeal arguing it will help provide protection both for the president’s family and the country as a whole.

According to a New York Times report White House has secured from European steel maker ArcelorMittal tens of millions of dollars’ worth of foreign steel in donations for the ballroom to make room for which Trump had already demolished the historic East Wing.

Trump also announced plans for “fixing the once beautiful Reflecting Pool between The Washington Monument and The Lincoln Memorial.”

“We were told it was going to take YEARS to do this job, and it will take a fraction of that time, at a fraction of the cost — and it will be much more beautiful than the day it was built!” he posted without revealing any plans for now to rename it after himself.

But he did release new renderings of “the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal Arch, anywhere in the World,” which he wants to install in Memorial Circle at the foot of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

“This will be a wonderful addition to the Washington D.C. area for all Americans to enjoy for many decades to come!” he wrote of what critics have dubbed as “Arc de Trump.”

Standing 250 ft tall, it would feature a 60ft golden Lady Liberty, and include a viewing deck. The phrase “One Nation Under God” would stretch across the top of the structure.

Call him Taco, Tako, Takou, TACO-ru or whatever, but one thing is clear he never Tacos when it comes to anything Trump!

(By arrangement with The American Bazaar)