(As I've said before - if Trump can successfully navigate the American ship of state through his own party's 'Israel first' minefield - he would be the greatest American president ever - if not, he will preside over the collapse of America and all of Western Civilization. - CL)
Neon Revolt observes that the reason the TACO acronym has landed so powerfully is because President Trump has an observable pattern of reliably chickening out and failing to implement both his literal and implied promises:
Full text: https://voxday.net/2025/06/06/trump-always-chickens-out/
.....There would be nothing easier than for Trump to force Kiev to surrender. He could have ended the war in 24 hours by announcing an end to all arms sales to any country that supplied Kiev with support, accompanied by 100 percent tariffs, US withdrawal from the NATO treaty, and the immediate removal of all US troops from Europe. Kiev and the EU would have been begging Putin to give them decent terms for surrender within 12 hours, and Putin would have given them a much better settlement than they’re going to end up with in 2026 after Russia takes the entire Black Sea coast and all the land east of the Dnieper.
But Trump chickened out.
If the President doesn’t want TACO to be his legacy, there is an easy solution. Do what you said you would do. Stop chickening out because some clown on your staff tells you it’s a bad idea. This isn’t that hard; the American people elected you, not anyone on your staff, or in the US military, or in an executive-branch agency, or at some conservative think tank.
And remember, it’s your legacy that will suffer, not theirs, when you take their bad advice.