Donald Trump 'loses his sh*t' after reporter asks him 'nasty' TACO question

Donald Trump is back in the headlines once again after his right-hand man, Elon Musk, resigned from his Republican administration.

The unexpected move, which broke in the early hours of this morning, comes five months after the tech boss was made one of Trump's Department of Government Official co-leads.

But it’s a bad week that got even worse for the American president after things got heated at a press conference on Wednesday (28 May).

Feathers were undoubtedly ruffled when a reporter brutally asked Trump a ‘nasty’ question about the ‘TACO trade,’ which is a new acronym making its way around Wall Street.

It stands for 'Trump Always Chickens Out,’ so you can see why the president wasn’t too impressed.

The saying is referencing Trump’s habit of threatening high tariffs on imported goods, before later choosing to pause or water them down.

The president’s stance on tariffs has been a key point of conversation after he introduced strong changes, including impacting relations with countries such as Canada, China and Mexico as well as the UK.

And now, a clip has gone viral of his ‘unhinged’ reaction to the new turn of phrase, where he ‘loses his sh*t’ after a reporter brings it up.

Not holding back, the reporter asked: “Wall Street analysts have coined a new term called the Taco Trade. They are saying ‘Trump always chickens out.’ What’s your response to that?”

The video of Trump's outburst has already done the rounds on social media (CNN)

Fuming, Trump hit back with: “'Don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question. To me, that's the nastiest question.”

Launching into a rant, he continued: "I've never heard that - you mean because I reduced China from 145 percent that I set, down to 100 and then down to another number. And I said, you have to open up your whole country?

“And because I gave the European Union a 50 percent tax – tariff – and they called up and they said, "Please, let's meet right now. Please, let's meet right now." And I said, Okay, I'll give you till June 9.

“I actually asked them, I said, What's the date? Because they weren't willing to meet. And after I did what I did, they said, we'll meet anytime you want, and we have an end date of July 9.

“You call that chickening out? Because we have $14 trillion now invested, committed to investing. When Biden didn't have practically anything.”

He seemed to get visibly angrier as he slammed the reporter and branded his new poultry nickname as ‘nasty’.

“This country was dying. You know, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world - Six months ago, this country was stone cold, dead,” he raged.

He didn't take too kindly to the 'nasty' question about the new acronym (CNN)

On the defence, he added: “We had a dead country. We had a country people didn't think was going to survive. And you ask a nasty question like that.

“It's called negotiation. You set a number, and if you go down, you know, if I set a number at a ridiculous high number, I go down a little bit, you know, a little bit they want me to hold that number, 145 percent tariff even. I said man, that really got up.”

Of course, the video has already done the rounds on social media and people are finding his explosion hilarious.

One user wrote: “LMAOOO, trump just lost his sh*t because a reporter told him Wall Street created a new phrase, TACO: trump Always Chickens Out.”

And another chimed in with: “Trump becomes even more unhinged when he hears “TACO” (Trump Always Chickens Out). Share the hell out of this clip. #TACOTrump”.