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It hasn’t been a good week for the guy who decided he was going to be a king and spent his first four months in office ignoring the law, declaring phony “national emergencies” and issuing “royal edicts” disguised as executive orders.

But things didn’t go exactly as he hoped — to put it mildly.

To start, Wall Street, which has been wracked by his on again-off again tariffs, came up with a new moniker for him: TACO. That stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” and is rooted in his failed attempts to pressure the nations of the world — including our longest and most loyal allies — with crushing tariffs to sell goods in the U.S.

Of course this didn’t sit well with his fragile ego and he demeaned a reporter who asked him what he thought of Wall Street’s label, falsely claiming our nation was “stone cold dead” before he took office and warning her to never use the term or ask........

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