He had not yet heard the term, according to a senior White House official who acknowledged to CNN that the president was caught off guard. Trump had said as much at the time, saying “I’ve never heard that” before calling it the “nastiest question.”

“He thought the reporter was calling him a chicken,” the official said, adding that Trump was “reasonably” frustrated with the phrase.

The acronym was coined in early May by a Financial Times columnist and is now used as shorthand by some on Wall Street to indicate that traders shouldn’t fret too much about Trump’s tariff threats, since he usually backs down.

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    Because he always acts this way when someone asks him a question he doesn’t like. Refuses to answer, then gaslights and calls them “nasty”. Typical narcissist shit.

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    🎶🎵 O-o-o-orange! Ch-ch-ch-chicken!

    Trump’s an orange chicken and he’s stupid as hell!

    Ooh, mamacita, he sees the economy fell!

    Stock prices falling, and others are giving us flack!

    Ooh, orange chicken’s having a TACO attaaaaaaaaack! 🎵 🎶

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    If trump always chickens out, might it also be appropriate to call him Orange Chicken? 🤭

    Edit: someone already mentioned orange chicken

    Please stop making fun of trump, he gonna ban tacos!!!

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          The New York Times, NPR, NBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Politico have been removed or had their access to briefings limited. Replaced with friendly right wing news sources. The Elon Ketamine use news is from an NYT article, the TACO phrase was from a Financial Times article.

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          The timing says everything. Elon is ‘out’ and media is throwing shade to pull negative sentiment from trump. Otherwise would have done it earlier. Mainstream media that is

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            Musk was always meant as a lightning rod for Trump’s tariffs and doge cuts, nothing more

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    Our fucking president throws a hissy every “though” question, wait “nasty” question. Starts to insult the reporter and dodges the question in the end. Or just giving a nonsensical answer.

    Relies on catchphrases on his socials for support.

    What a fucking joke.

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    Um… yeah. Most of us outside of the media’s self-imposed truth filter already knew there’s a reason for it - because he’s a thin-skinned crybaby.