Fox News hosts were visibly rattled Tuesday morning as they tried to shut down a growing nickname aimed at Donald Trump: “TACO,” short for “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
The insult, coined by Wall Street insiders and amplified by Democrats, took off online — and sent Fox & Friends into full defense mode. Rachel Campos-Duffy tried to mock it, but couldn’t shake how serious it sounded.
“Democrats are really off-kilter,” she said. “They’ve come up with this really cringy response, which is ‘TACO,’ OK?”
She then admitted the obvious problem. “No, first of all, when you have to explain it, which I’m like gonna have to do right now, it’s probably a sign. It’s not the best campaign for them.”
Campos-Duffy introduced a video of Rep. Eric Swalwell eating a taco to drive the point home — a social media jab mocking Trump for backing down on issues like tariffs.
“So if you’re negotiating and creating deals, they’re trying to present it as chickening out,” she said, defending Trump’s policy shifts as strategic rather than cowardly.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade then pointed fingers at an unexpected source: The Wall Street Journal. “The Wall Street Journal started it, actually,” he said. “The Wall Street Journal was at war with the president when it comes to tariffs.”
The paper had reported that some on Wall Street had started using “TACO” to describe Trump’s flip-flops on tariff threats — policies his own White House once called non-negotiable, only to later walk them back.
Despite struggling to counter the mocking acronym, the Fox News hosts ended the segment with full-on praise for Trump. Campos-Duffy even went so far as to declare him “the bravest man in the world.”
Trump’s critics may have landed a hit, and even his biggest defenders were forced to play defense. But on Fox & Friends, the message stayed on-brand — mock the insult, blame the press, and double down on Trump.
Watch the full segment below from Fox News:
Fox News hosts are losing their minds with the nickname TACO. They say that the Dear Leader is not chickening out and instead the tariffs are working.
LOL! pic.twitter.com/o6fk6t8lTq
— Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) June 3, 2025
