Donald Trump is very proud of his talent for nicknames. In a recent interview in New Hampshire he explained, "I do a lot of names for people, some people say I'm very good at that."

I suppose that's true. His followers do seem to love it when he bestows some juvenile nickname on one of his rivals. This seems to be the extent of his "branding" expertise which makes some sense since his acclaimed success at that was due to him slapping his own name on everything in sight, from meat to ties to con games and buildings. Put a name on it and it sticks, I guess.

There is nothing Trump won't lie about and there is just too much evidence of it to believe that his ardent followers don't see any of it.

When Trump first ran for office his penchant for silly nicknames was jarring but it's so common now that nobody much notices the fact that he really seems to have lost his touch since the halcyon days of "Li'l Marco" for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., "Pocahontas" for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and "Lyin' Ted," for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex. His nickname for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was "Ron DeSanctimonious" or sometimes "Ron DeSanctus" neither of which made much sense. I'm not sure he even knew what the words meant. Calling former Cabinet member Elaine Chow "Coco" and New York Attorney General Tish James "Peekaboo" was weird. And let's face facts. Recycling "Crooked Hillary" to "Crooked Joe" was just pathetic. This is the best the "master brander" can do these days?

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But we must give credit where credit is due. He has finally come up with a nickname that is so outrageous that it will go down in political history as his piece de resistance: he's now calling himself "Honest Don." I'm not kidding:

The man who is going to go down in history as the president who incited an insurrection with something widely known as The Big Lie is now calling himself "Honest Don." You couldn't make this up.

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Trump's new "Honest Don" nickname can't distract from his obvious decline

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13.03.2024

Donald Trump is very proud of his talent for nicknames. In a recent interview in New Hampshire he explained, "I do a lot of names for people, some people say I'm very good at that."

I suppose that's true. His followers do seem to love it when he bestows some juvenile nickname on one of his rivals. This seems to be the extent of his "branding" expertise which makes some sense since his acclaimed success at that was due to him slapping his own name on everything in sight,........

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