A Trump TACO Tuesday Truck in D.C. Offered Out Fully

June 4, 2025

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Seems, our KFC-loving president does have a meals following. As an ode to his flip-flop tariff commerce tendencies often known as TACO (“Trump At all times Chickens Out”) — an acronym coined by Monetary Occasions in Might — a meals truck celebrating Taco Tuesday was an obvious lunchtime hit on Capitol Hill yesterday.

The Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) booked the truck from Pittsburgh-based Vagabond Taco, which drove all the way down to sling — What else? — grilled rooster on smooth corn tortillas.

Vagabond ready 200 tacos (restricted to at least one per individual), and the noon-to-2 p.m. freebie ran out one hour in, a DNC spokesperson tells Eater. Anticipate “extra activations for certain,” he provides, declining to say whether or not which means further “TACO” Tuesdays.

“It’s previous time Trump realizes the economic system is critical enterprise — not a recreation of rooster,” per an announcement on Monday from DNC chair Ken Martin.

Tuesday’s edible political assertion arrange store a block from the Republican Nationwide Committee’s Southeast headquarters. Vagabond Taco is a part of the Western Pennsylvania Meals Truck Alliance, in outspoken Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s dwelling state. With a Breaking Unhealthy-branded menu, Vagabond’s truck is roofed in decals, a Heisenberg emblem, and on Tuesday, a short lived banner of Trump wearing a rooster go well with.

The broadly publicized poultry poke at Trump, first reported by Axios, naturally drew backlash from Republicans.

“LMFAO. A taco truck? Are they going to be giving out free vasectomies once more too?” added RNC spokesperson Zach Parkinson, pointing to the DNC’s previous pro-abortion advertising marketing campaign.

On Monday, the DNC teased out the lunch with a taco emoji-led press launch mocking the newest TACO subject: “Trump as soon as once more flip-flopped on his personal unaffordable nationwide tax — lower than a day after Trump’s Commerce Secretary swore no adjustments have been coming — throwing small companies and the American economic system into chaos.”

Scroll on for extra images from D.C.’s inaugural TACO Tuesday (plus Vagabond’s roving menu).