Harris-linked group urges younger liberals to cease calling Trump ‘TACO’

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A Kamala Harris-linked group desires younger liberals to cease referring to President Donald Trump by an abbreviation that claims he "chickens out."

Earlier this yr, the previous vp relaunched her Kamala HQ social media presence used throughout her 2024 White Home run as "a web-based organizing undertaking for next-generation campaigning." The account, now dubbed Headquarters, goals to "mobilize pro-fairness, pro-democracy, younger individuals towards far-right extremism."

Headquarters has solely printed three items of content material because it launched, with the latest coming Wednesday with the blunt headline , "Cease calling Trump ‘TACO.’"

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A Kamala Harris-linked group desires younger liberals to cease referring to President Donald Trump as "TACO."

Trump critics have used the acronym TACO for "Trump All the time Chickens Out" to irk the president. The time period was in full swing this week as liberals instructed the president obtained chilly toes by agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran after beforehand threatening that a complete "civilization will die tonight."

As liberals mocked Trump with TACO memes and social media jabs, the Headquarters staffers made clear they did not approve.

"That framing just isn't solely essentially incorrect, however dangerously shallow," Headquarters wrote within the un-bylined submit.

"Firstly, such a notion packing containers Trump right into a obligatory must strike in order to show his phrases carry actual weight," Headquarters continued. "Secondly, and extra importantly, it misses the price of efficiency."

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The Harris-linked group, which refers to members of Gen Z as "we," rattled off issues that Democratic voters would usually oppose, similar to deploying ICE brokers "to indiscriminately goal individuals based mostly on the colour of their pores and skin," and the warfare with Iran.

"Trump’s technique of blasphemous statements to extract concessions and keep away from battle had, inadvertently, given him no selection however to assault. To name yesterday’s back-down a TACO second invitations such a second to come back once more, besides there ultimately received’t be an off-ramp. It additionally fails to acknowledge Trump’s inherent and omnipresent hazard," Headquarters wrote.

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A protester wears a shirt that claims "Let's Taco 'bout Tariffs" exterior the White Home on June 3, 2025. (Kevin Carter/Getty Pictures)

Headquarters believes that "not one of the ache inflicted by Trump’s wars of selection and financial warfare might be unwound simply because he modified his thoughts."

"The genie is out of the bottle. Subsequent time, (as a result of with Trump we’re all-but-guaranteed a subsequent time,) de-escalation received’t be doable," Headquarters wrote.

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Harris is the chair emerita of Headquarters in an honorary position with among the workers behind Kamala HQ reuniting on the brand new undertaking. The previous vp does not have editorial control over the posts.

The TACO phrase was first coined by Wall Avenue analysts when referring to Trump's tariff insurance policies, suggesting Trump will stroll again the steep reciprocal tariffs he introduced in 2025.

Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

Brian Flood is a media editor/reporter for FOX Information Digital. Story suggestions might be despatched to brian.flood@fox.com and on Twitter: @briansflood.