TACO Man

I admit to giving Trump many nicknames over the last 10 years. All were applicable, but none was simple and defined him for the “real Donald Trump” he has always been. I called him “Trumpenstein,” “Putin’s Puppet,” the “Fuhrer,” the “Destroyer,” a “Con Man,” “The Orange Buffoon,” and, of course, a “sexual predator.” All of these are true, but not as humorous as I would have liked.

This week he has become known as the “TACO Man.” The acronym stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” It’s funny and accurate. He constantly makes a fool of himself. His intellect is far below average, and when he speaks to his supporters it is clear that he is illiterate.

His greatest display of ignorance had become his decision to place tariffs on imports from nearly every nation in the world. Nearly every economist in our nation exposed the fact that tariffs are never effective and are always destructive to economic growth and national security. When his oligarchs began to complain, and Musk resigned, he reneged on the severity of those tariffs. However, the anagram, TACO, hurt his fragile ego. He immediately increased tariffs on the EU again. Flip Flopper extraordinaire.

I can’t count the times I called Trump a bully, because that’s what he is. All bullies are cowards, and Trump is most definitely “TACO man.”

When he was about to be drafted into the Vietnam War, he begged daddy to save him from serving in the military. Fred Trump found a doctor living in one of his high-rise apartments and made a deal. Donny Boy received deferments, claiming that he had bone spurs on his feet.

In 1987, after making poor business decisions, He and first wife, Ivana, were invited to Moscow by the notorious spy agency, the KGB. During this time, Vladimir Putin was a rising star in the KGB.

When he returned to New York, his real estate empire began to flourish thanks to over-priced purchases by Russian Oligarchs. Trump was too ignorant to learn how to do business properly in America, so he allowed a foreign nation to do it for him.

When Trump was badly beaten in the 2020 election, his ego and ambitions superseded the facts. He is the only illegitimate president in history who refused to accept the peaceful balance of power. Courage and doing the right thing are not in Trump’s repertoire.

America needs a leader, not a whiner and a man whose loyalty is to a dictator. Trump could never be that person: he lacks every quality expected and demanded of a President of the United States of America.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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