President Donald Trump doesn't like his new nickname 'TACO'. Here's why people are calling Trump TACO and the meaning behind the TACO trade acronym

US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff campaign has, so far, yielded significant financial gains for the US government.TL;DRTrump’s tariffs have brought the US a record surge in customs revenue-$64 billion in Q2 2025.

The FT also added a key piece of information that may surprise many Trump critics, noting that American consumers are not shouldering the tariff burden alone The post Who’s the ‘TACO’ Now? Trump Reaping Billions In Tariff Revenue While Other Countries Back Down first appeared on Mediaite.

"TACO trade" was coined in May about President Trump's whiplash tariff policies. Here's what it means and why it's resurfacing in political discourse.

Tariff Man is back again — and so is Wall Street’s TACO trade. President Donald Trump is once more threatening to lob massive duties on a wide swath of US imports, everything from copper and pharmaceuticals to goods from Japan and Russia.

Buoyant markets may reflect hopes that the US president will always chicken out of imposing harsh tariffs. Yet Donald Trump now cites largely calm stocks as cause for fresh charges, such as a 35% Canada levy.

President Donald Trump has again delayed a tariff deadline. His back and forth on the policy spurred TACO accusations. What does it mean?

After months of public assurances about Vladimir Putin’s alleged interest in “peace,” Donald Trump was asked in late May about whether he still believed this about his Russian counterpart. The Republican pointed to a deadline of sorts.

Markets had dismissed tariff risks under the assumption that Trump would follow an earlier pattern and back off, in what became known as the so-called TACO trade. That allowed stocks to reach new record-high territory recently, marking a stunning rebound from the collapse triggered by his “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs in April.

Donald Trump wants the highest tariff rates the economy can handle. He’ll keep probing until markets stop him.