TACO Trade? Seriously?
Democrats just never learn. And thus, we are where we are right now. And, if Trump’s vengeful personality has anything to do with it, things are going to get a lot worse, thanks in large part to Democrats who just can’t get out of their own way.
According to some of his closest advisors and confidants at the time, the decision Trump made to run for president in 2016 occurred at a White House correspondents’ dinner in 2011. And his decision had absolutely nothing to do with any responsibility Trump felt about serving his country. We all know he’s never felt that responsibility in any way. It had nothing to do with any great experience and wisdom of governance that led Trump to run for president. We all know he has neither and is a known anti-intellectual. And it had nothing to do with being a life-long Republican committed to lifting up his party and country. Trump’s political views have changed almost as often as he changes underwear. He’s been registered as a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, and not affiliated with any party at least several times each since the late 1980s.
Trump is motivated by vengeance. Period. And that was definitely triggered during Obama’s little attempt at humor at Trump’s expense during his five-minute speech at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ dinner, addressing 2,600 journalists and Washington power brokers, with this to say about Trump:
“Donald Trump is here tonight and I know he has taken some flak lately. But no one is happier, no one prouder, to put this birth certificate to rest than the Donald. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like, Did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”
Did Trump deserve this dig after months of publicly accusing Obama of falsifying his birth certificate and not being a U.S. citizen? Probably. But unfortunately for us, it was this moment and that public insult that resulted in Trump deciding to run for president, according to his closest friends and confidants.
So thank you, Obama, for activating Trump’s petty and vengeful nature enough to make him run for president … and win. And we all know what has happened since Trump became president in 2016. His vengeance was not quite as evident in his first term, which I believe is mostly because winning surprised him as much as it did everyone else, and therefore, he was totally unprepared to manage a successful revenge tour. Although he tried his best to undo Obama’s legacy, the Affordable Care Act, he never accomplished it, thankfully for the millions of Americans who can afford health insurance because of Obamacare. But after losing to Biden in 2020 and having four more years to learn and plot, in less than six months into his second presidency, he is fully immersed in his successful personal vengeance tour.
You’d think that Democrats would fully understand by now that it is not a sense of duty or humanity or even thinking that he alone can save us all from ourselves that motivates Trump. He is motivated only by words and actions that he feels humiliate him in some way, and now, he has the knowledge and the power to get his revenge. So what do Democrats do?
Just when we think that Trump has backed off on his devastating global tariffs and instead is beginning to take a more reasonable approach and markets are starting to recover and we can breathe a little easier, what can Democrats do to screw it up?
They publicly mock him with their new, oh-so-clever nickname, TACO Trade, with TACO standing for Trump Always Chickens Out. Seriously? What grade are these people in? Does he deserve the name? Maybe. But that’s not the point. The point is that Democrats should have learned that stirring up the hornets’ nest of Trump’s vengeful wrath with public stupid jokes and memes designed to humiliate him is not good for any of us.
Trump is already lashing out at this grade-school nickname and, true to his vengeful nature, he will now have to even more aggressively attack other countries with his high tariffs, which in turn will cause Americans more financial hardships, just to prove to us all that he does not chicken out. And he will crash our markets and ruin our economy with glee, because it will make him feel better about himself. Because that’s what this president is all about: himself. Period.
So thanks, Democrats, for encouraging his vengeance yet again. Hopefully, the little chuckle you get from your TACO Trade joke is worth it.
Margie Slivinske writes to the Sun from Arroyo Grande. Send a letter for publication to letters@santamariasun.com.
This article appears in Jun 19-29, 2025.
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