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Today in Politics, Bulletin 141. 5/29/25

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 141. 5/29/25 Ron Filipkowski May 29 ∙ …  TACO Trump  is all the rage on social media after CNBC reporter   Mary Cassella  asked Trump this question about him always backing down on tariffs: “Wall Street analysts have coined a new term called the ‘TACO’ trade. They’re saying Trump always chickens out, and that’s why markets are higher this week. What’s your response to that?” … Trump came unglued: “I chickened out? I’ve never heard that. Because I reduced China from 145% down to 100 and then down to another number? 6 months ago, this country was stone cold, dead. We had a dead country. We had a country, people didn’t think it was going to survive. And you ask a nasty question like that! It’s called negotiation. We were doing no business because of the tariff, because it was so high. But I knew that. But don’t ever say what you said. That’s a nasty question.” … Seems a bit touchy about this subject. …  Robert Armstrong  of the Fina...