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Trump’s latest TACO moment puts his increasingly erratic temperament in the spotlight
CNN ^ | January 21, 2026 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 01/21/2026 6:57:08 PM PST by Trump20162020

President Donald Trump’s climbdown on Greenland capped one of the most erratic episodes involving a modern president on the world stage.

Within hours Wednesday, Trump flipped from demanding “right, title, and ownership” of the semiautonomous Danish territory to celebrating an “infinite,” “forever” framework deal over its future.

Outside the right-wing bubble, Trump is being mocked for another “TACO” (“Trump always chickens out”) moment after dropping the threat of tariffs on European nations until they agreed to give him Greenland. Just as with his “Liberation Day” tariffs, the president may have been spooked by the result of his own actions.

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1 posted on 01/21/2026 6:57:08 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

CNN. Not worth the time.


2 posted on 01/21/2026 6:57:54 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesolmalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: Trump20162020

TACO is the best this Childish News Network maggot could come up with?


3 posted on 01/21/2026 6:59:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesolmalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“CNN. Not worth the time.”
Never was, never will be.


4 posted on 01/21/2026 7:00:18 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Trump20162020

Cartoon News Network.


5 posted on 01/21/2026 7:00:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: Trump20162020

CNN;s soooooo stupid. They make Kamala and Gavin look intelligent... (and that ain’t easy)


6 posted on 01/21/2026 7:00:56 PM PST by GOPJ (Trump's a Rorschach: for good or ill people see thier hidden selves in him. Protector? Bully? Savior)
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To: Trump20162020

Moving the Overton Window by making outrageous demands and then proposing a compromise is straight out of The Art of the Deal.


7 posted on 01/21/2026 7:02:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: Trump20162020

“ Trump is being mocked for another “TACO” (“Trump always chickens out”) moment”

So these people wanted a war with Denmark?
Strange


8 posted on 01/21/2026 7:03:19 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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To: Trump20162020

Nonsense, it was CNN or theior fellow brethren in the Democrat Party that started the fear mongering about Trump invading Greenland. Trump never uttered that, but he never rfuted it. He just let them utter their nonsense.


9 posted on 01/21/2026 7:03:34 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hahahaha...the same, childish, useless people who think this is worthwhile as something to consider.


10 posted on 01/21/2026 7:09:45 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: Trump20162020

They have no point.


11 posted on 01/21/2026 7:10:22 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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CNN calls it TACO but I call it walking away with chunks of Greenland’s Sovereign Territory.

Watch, in a year or two the Greenlanders will vote for independence, and seeing how great the Americans in their American enclaves in Greenland are, will vote to join the USA. And there is nothing Denmark will be able to do about it. Buahaha


12 posted on 01/21/2026 7:11:31 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: FlingWingFlyer

At all.


13 posted on 01/21/2026 7:13:35 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Trump20162020

Typical of the commie news network.


14 posted on 01/21/2026 7:13:57 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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“ Trump is being mocked for another “TACO” (“Trump always chickens out”) moment”

They should ask Nicolas Maduro about PDJT's "TACO" tendency.

Oh yeah. They can't. He's in federal custody.

15 posted on 01/21/2026 7:14:13 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t know why any country would take Trump’s tariffs or threat of tariffs seriously.


16 posted on 01/21/2026 7:15:31 PM PST by Kleon
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To: Trump20162020

Lying Media (MSM) loves their cake and they eat it too.


17 posted on 01/21/2026 7:15:31 PM PST by Racketeer
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To: Trump20162020

Hey, it’s CNN. They’re still upset because Hillary isn’t president-for-life.


18 posted on 01/21/2026 7:18:18 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Steely Tom

Good point


19 posted on 01/21/2026 7:19:53 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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To: wjcsux

The only question is if the CNN a-holes believe this or they are pretending they don’t know it was part of a strategy


20 posted on 01/21/2026 7:20:10 PM PST by iamgalt
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