Donald Trump seemingly had a meltdown during a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday after a “nasty” reporter asked whether he was familiar with Wall Street analysts’ new term, “TACO trade,” an acronym suggesting “Trump always chickens out” under tariff threats.
I mean, that really wasn’t a “meltdown” but sure.
The word does seem overused. Any time he raises his voice or writes in all caps it’s a “meltdown”
Lemmy poster VICIOUSLY ACCUSES poster of BLASTING THEIR VOICE in a SCORCHING comment!
Looking at the video I wouldn’t call it a meltdown. He seemed upset, but also kind of out of it, like grandpa who doesn’t necessarily have dementia but you can tell that engine ain’t getting full RPM’s anymore.
Narcissists cannot stand being made a mockery of. This is the way to get under his skin. He will rage and rage over this, tweeting at 4 in the morning for as long as we keep this up lol
Call him a pedo, a rapist, a felon, and you get nothing.
Call him a chicken and he loses his one braincell.
I feel like this kind of crap is put out there so opposition to this regime can feel like they are having a victory, while the world order is being overturned.
Don’t celebrate this junior-high level mockery. It accomplished nothing. It changes nothing.
Grind, grind, grind, until these evil bastards are overturned or we’re all dead.
It doesn’t accomplish nothing. It chips away at the image of him as a strongman, which is one of the things his supporters care about the most. It’s obviously not going to solve the problem, but those small victories do matter and help keep morale up when things feel otherwise hopeless. The key is to keep pushing and pushing in any and every way possible.
Rage rage rage against the dying of the light
On the other hand, the term is a good summary of his complete lack of negotiating skill.
I love that we found a nickname that gets under his skin, but I just hope he doesn’t retaliate by targeting Mexicans specifically. Because tacos are a Mexican food and that’s all the connection he needs
Because he’s not already targeting Mexicans??
Targeting them more
The beauty of a smooth brain
My favorite part:
“[China was] doing no business whatsoever, and they were having a lot of problems,” Trump declared.
How daft can one be?
Millions of Americans bought it.
Think of how absolutely stupid the average person is, with average intelligence. Likely, they can barely read at a high school level in most cases and can barely make good decisions about, well, anything, especially things outside their limited area of expertise/influence.
Now, we need to realize that half the people in the US are dumber than that.
I have a job working with the public and I know I’m thick as shit but some people I serve I truly do wonder how some of them even tie their shoes in the morning.
Yup, it’s truly horrifying some days.
Same same. They walk out the door and I honestly wonder if they will make it home.
More than half of Americans read at a middle school grade level or lower. Around a half of those are at a elementary school level.
Just over 10% read at a level 11th grade or higher level. Which is shocking given that over half of Americans have some level of college education. Americans are educated but not well educate.
It’s common to blame the education system but given how wide spread the problem it is far more likely it is a cultural failure and most Americans lack the qualifications to evaluate this issue (or any issue) but flap their jaws about it anyway.
I don’t think it’s cultural. I think it’s republicans repeatedly targeting education for decades. I mean have you ever been in a teachers’ subreddit or community? Modern American education is a fucking dumpster fire.
Remember Trump’s “I love the uneducated”? It’s not because he’s friendly, it’s because they’re more manipulable.
These are far worse stats than I had expected haha, appreciate the context; and agreed that it’s a multiple of variables, not just education. Cultural issues are a real problem, especially in the more entrenched southern states/towns.
That’s “Ghina.”
Chai-nuh
The only appropriate use of AI is to lampoon dirt bag politicians.
One of our customers is using it to develop medications for Parkinson’s. Is that appropriate?
If chatgpt is developing medicine, absolutely the fuck not.
If it’s a neural net they’re calling Ai, go for it.
“AI” is a great tool for drug discovery. It can come through the insane dataset that is all published materials and recommend molecules based on their structure in comparison to the enzymes they are trying to interact with.
Once researchers have a shortlist of options, then they can do all the necessary bench work to test efficacy and safety.
Neural nets are AI, and so are LLMs. They haven’t reached AGI, but it’s silly to make that the threshold for something to be “AI”.
People really need to understand the history of the field better.
Calling everything machine learning related AI is how we have a glorified predictive keyboard smashed into everything right now. It’s become a buzzword, and whenever someone uses the term I automatically assume enshittification.
I saw my father whither away from Parkinson’s. It’s an awesome goal to use AI for, fuck Parkinson’s
Fine. You can have it this one time. As a treat.
Oh god, we’re so fucked.
What meltdown are we on for the year? The toddler in chief seems to have one every couple of weeks.
They’re all selfish fucks. Don’t want to take responsibility for anything. Doesn’t matter if it’s the environment, masking to save lives, or the laws they break.
In town halls hosted by Republicans (the very few of them who is hosting or did since Trump has been inaugurated) when people ask about issues being caused by Trump they either say agree or try to grease their words around it to sound less important without denouncing it, its the party of gaslighting and manipulation because thats the thing they are most competent at
They were ahead of the curve!
This float needs to be found.
China: bears
USA: chickens
This I what AI should be used for and nothing else, and making Vance memes, and musk memes, and Putin memes, and…
Why is the word “trade” in the headline?
new term, “TACO trade,” an acronym
And what is it doing here?
If I’m not mistaken, the origin of the phrase was wallstreet traders who used it to refer to the trades that happened when trump rolled back tariffs (or paused them, again).
Thus, TACO trade.
Interesting. That’s a good origin, and makes sense. They should have explained that a bit in the article, though.
Thanks for the extra info.
ROFL I love it. It’s a technique that t uses to control people - to make them always be on edge. It creates survival mode. He’s not doing it intentionally, it is a narcissistic trait.
Great job everyone. We sure showed trump. /$
I will never understand why dems love latching onto extremely lame insults like this.
Yeah cuz Dems came up with Sleepy Joe, Laughing Kamala, Brandon, Crazy Nancy and all the rest of the childish bullshit names drumpf came up with in his tiny little brain…
Doing it because of fomo over the middle school insults is even more pathetic.
drumpf
he’s gonna be so mad when he reads this. totally epic sir
Generative AI slop is bad, no matter what.
What poor artist should have to live through doing such a cruel job of drawing Donald’s face. Have some humanity.
I wouldn’t blame artists for wanting to avoid drawing Trump, he looks like he is mid way through melting Raiders of the Lost Ark style.
Sometimes I feel like the people who say ai is always bad for everything, no matter what, kinda remind me of horse buggy salesmen putting down automobiles at the turn of the century. There are many instances in which ai would actually be a benefit, and many jobs are pretty much obsolete and ai is gonna give them that last push to die. Those jobs were always gonna go. You can’t stop the future.
Artists and other jobs people worry ai will steal are safe, so long as you’re good enough to be better than shitty ai artists, you shouldn’t worry. If ai is funnier and better than you, that’s kinda on you.
Most companies are realizing ai can’t match a human employee for quality. If ai can obsolete you, you were likely on your way out
That said an artist was acccused of using AI but wasn’t https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/art-subreddit-illustrator-ai-art-controversy
and if AI was good enough to replace artists we’d have AI rotoscoping. Still hasn’t managed this one job that should be able to be done by AI and they’ve been trying to for decades.
no artist wants to rotoscope. Not even AI wants to.
Who the fuck wants this punishment
