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Let's call it what it is, the Beast rides in it, but from now on I'm calling it 'The TACO Truck' [1]
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Date: 2025-05-31
In 2018 General Motors delivered a new presidential limousine to the Executive Branch for use by President Donald J. Trump. This is the 10 ton 1.2 million dollar vehicle formerly known as ‘the Beast.’
A week after attending Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, the newly inaugurated 47th President went to the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, for the Daytona 500 where he was part of the pre-race festivities and where the Secret Service was allowed to chauffer the 47th President on a lap around the raceway. I understand that he loved it. Since the President loves to attend popular sporting events, even those that he really has zero interest — provided he can be seen and adored, I’m a bit surprised that he didn’t reprise that Daytona lap with another one at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway prior the the Indy 500 on May 25th.
The vehicle formerly known as “the Beast” taking Mr. Trump on a lap at Daytona in Feb. 2025
But then again, Trump has a history at the Indy 500. Back in 2011, Donald Trump agreed to drive the pace car at the Indy 500, but then abruptly changed his mind — chickened out so to speak - and turned down the offer, calling it "inappropriate" for a presidential candidate (my how some things have changed).
The changing his mind thing though — that is still running strong, especially with respect to tariffs. Leading folks to refer the the President — particularly with reference to his on an off again tariffs as - TACO — an acronym for TRUMP ALWAYS CHICKENS OUT. That tongue-in-cheek term for the 47th President was coined by the Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong back on May 2nd, following the financial market’s yo-yo responses to his extreme tariff threats — which were almost always rescinded shortly after the announcement in response to negative market forces. Trump’s staff had heard the term but shielded him from it until May 28th.
When a reporter used the term TACO during a Q and A session in the White House on May 28th following the swearing in ceremony for his interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, Trump was to say the least, not happy.
The president has spent years cultivating a reputation for political muscle. So when he was asked by a reporter in the Oval Office on Wednesday whether the term might be a valid description of his approach to tariffs, Mr. Trump reacted with ire. “I chicken out? I’ve never heard that,” he said. “Don’t ever say what you said,” he told the reporter. “That’s a nasty question. To me, that’s the nastiest question.” www.nytimes.com/...
The TACO moniker is going to stick — so to help with that, and further irritate Mr. Trump, I suggest that from now on the vehicle formerly known as ‘the Beast’ should be lovingly and mockingly referred to as “The TACO Truck”
While many folks will still think that a Taco Truck looks like this — that will change.
Until Elon Musk builds him an armored Tesla or Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) or some other despot gives him a gold plated bullet proof limo, Mr. Trump will be stuck with the the same old clunker that Joe Biden used. That has got to infuriate him, but not as much as this diary will, after we relentlessly call it the Taco Truck.
Why would I want to mock the President? Because there is very little if anything I can do to alter any of his horribly misguided and mismanaged policies and proposals. But this, this I can do.
Although I’m a U.S. citizen — born and raised in Ohio 70yrs ago-, and have reliably paid all my taxes, and have a clean criminal record, there is more than a small chance this little vignette will land me on Mr. Trump’s naughty list — the one that gets you audited for several years or visited by the FBI or even deported to a prison in South Sudan or El Salvador or a black ops site in Greenland or who knows where. So if you don’t see a post from me again anytime soon — that could be why. In the mean time, I’d seriously appreciate it if you could help me with this notion. If we can no longer call the Gulf of Mexico by the name it has had since the 1550s, surely we can change the name of the presidential limo.
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