Newsom taunts Trump’s Greenland TACO as Donald hits back at governor ‘sitting in the cuck chair’
Gavin Newsom ignited a war of words with the White House after Donald Trump’s ‘boring’ Davos speech where he backed off from his threat to use military force to seize Greenland.
The California Governor was in the audience watching Trump’s speech at the Davos summit when the president pledged to not use force to take Greenland from Denmark.
Newsom, the only prospective 2028 Democratic candidate for president positioned in Davos, bolted toward reporters immediately after the speech’s conclusion to taunt Trump.
‘It was remarkably boring,’ Newsom said of Trump’s speech. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going to invade Greenland. It was never real…Honestly I was really disappointed.’
The White House Rapid Response account on X also took a shot back at Newsom by mocking him for watching the president’s speech.
‘The failing Governor of California (rampant with fraud) watches from the corner cuck chair as @POTUS delivers a true masterclass in Davos,’ the rapid response account wrote on X alongside a picture of Newsom at Trump’s speech. ‘Embarrassing!’
Nonetheless, Trump’s Greenland remarks reignited the popular moniker attached to deployed by detractors when the president backs away from his biggest threats: TACO.
‘Trump Always Chickens Out’ was coined by Wall Street traders last May after the president repeatedly flip flopped on tariffs.
Gavin Newsom taunted Donald Trump for his ‘boring’ speech at Davos where the president pulled back from his threat to use military force to take Greenland
The White House mocked the California governor by claiming he was watching Trump’s Davos speech from his ‘cuck chair’
The TACO term stands for ‘Trump Always Chickens Out.’ Japanese traders celebrated on social media by posting TACO memes after markets begun soaring following Trump’s speech
This week, it was a frenzy of Japanese stock market traders posting ‘TACO’ celebrations on X following Trump’s de-escalation.
Traders anticipated Trump would live up to his TACO nickname long before the opening bell in New York as investors in Tokyo posted gleeful memes.
‘Japan stocks and US stocks both going up!! So glad I believed in Trump-san’s TACO,’ wrote one Japanese trader using the honorific Trump-san, a polite and respectful form of address for the president.
Wall Street Investors and financial experts also forecasted on Tuesday night that Trump would have a ‘TACO’ moment ahead of his Davos speech.
‘The [market] decline is small, given the gravity of the situation,’ said Stephen Dover, chief market strategist at Franklin Templeton.
‘What that implies to me is that most investors are thinking TACO.’
Trump, a former New York real estate tycoon with a keen eye on Wall Street, closely tracks the markets and is likely aware stocks tumbled amid the Greenland controversy.
Shares later rebounded after the president pledged not to use force.
Despite vowing to not use force, Trump still doubled-down at the speech on his pledge to take control of the Danish territory.
The president claimed the US would still take control of Greenland but would not use military force
The president claimed Greenland would be used to build the infrastructure for a ‘Golden Dome’ defense system that would protect the Western Hemisphere from ballistic missiles.
The president over the weekend imposed tariffs on eight European nations over their support for Greenland. The tariffs will start at 10 percent next month and rise again to 25 percent in June, remaining in place until a deal is reached.
