The news came during our morning in South Korea, where headlines carried the acronym “TACO” to recap a whirlwind day in U.S. diplomacy that unfolded while we were sleeping. In Japan, TACO was introduced in news headlines last year during Trump’s repeated tariff announcements and reversals. This week, the word was back in the news, with commentators discussing the difference between TACO and “tako,” which means “octopus” in Japanese. South Korea’s version of Wikipedia, Namuwiki, has an entire entry dedicated to TACO, complete with AI-generated photos of Trump dressed in a chicken suit. Trump has bristled at the term, and the White House and some Trump supporters describe his approach more generously as strategic unpredictability.

Source: Washington Post April 09, 2026 15:39 UTC