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Donald Trump became widely known during his 2016 presidential campaign, his first presidency from 2017 to 2021, his inter-presidential period and 2024 presidential campaign for using nicknames to criticize, insult, or otherwise express commentary about media figures, politicians, and foreign leaders.[1][2][3][4][5]
The list excludes commonly used hypocorisms such as "Mike" for "Michael" or "Steve" for "Steven", unless they are original to Trump. Nicknames that Trump did not originate are annotated with footnotes.
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| Nickname | Personal name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Britain Trump[108] | Boris Johnson | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Rocket Man[1] | Kim Jong Un | Supreme Leader of North Korea |
| Little Rocket Man[6][109][110] | ||
| Juan Trump[111][112][113] | Andrés Manuel López Obrador | 65th President of Mexico |
| Governor Trudeau[114][f] | Justin Trudeau | Prime Minister of Canada |
| Nickname | Personal name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Crazy Mika Brzezinski[115] | Mika Brzezinski | Co-host of Morning Joe; wife of Joe Scarborough |
| Dumb as a Rock Mika[116] | ||
| Dopey Graydon Carter[117][118][119] | Graydon Carter | Former editor of Vanity Fair |
| Allison Cooper[120] | Anderson Cooper | Host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° |
| Fredo[121] | Chris Cuomo | Former host of Cuomo Prime Time on CNN; Host of Cuomo on NewsNation |
| Maggot Hagerman[122][123][124] | Maggie Haberman | American journalist, White House correspondent for The New York Times. |
| Crazy Megyn[116] | Megyn Kelly | Host of The Megyn Kelly Show, former host of The Kelly File and Megyn Kelly Today |
| Sloppy Michael Moore[125] | Michael Moore | Filmmaker and political documentarian |
| Morning Psycho[126] | Joe Scarborough | Co-host of Morning Joe; former U.S. representative from Florida; husband of Mika Brzezinski |
| Psycho Joe[1] | ||
| Lil' George[g][127][128][129] | George Stephanopoulos | Chief anchor and chief political correspondent of ABC News; former White House communications director and senior advisor to President Bill Clinton |
| George Slopadopolus[130][131] | ||
| Fake Tapper[132][133] | Jake Tapper | Host of The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN |
| Sleepy Eyes[1][134] | Chuck Todd | Former moderator of Meet the Press |
| Lyin' Brian[135][136] | Brian Williams | Former anchor of NBC Nightly News; former host of The 11th Hour |
| Little Jeff Zucker[1] | Jeff Zucker | Former president of CNN Worldwide |
| Nickname | Group members | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Angry Democrats[137] | Names of attorneys
|
Attorneys working on Robert Mueller's investigation of potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. The press identified thirteen of the seventeen attorneys as either being registered to vote as Democrats or making contributions to Democratic candidates. Those not identified as such are denoted with a star(★).[138] It is unclear whether this was the criterion Trump used to distinguish 13 out of 17 individuals since Trump did not detail which thirteen individuals he included in the nickname. |
| 17 Angry Democrats[139] | ||
| AOC Plus 3[140][h] | The Squad (2018–2021): Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ilhan Omar Ayanna Pressley Rashida Tlaib |
Informal political grouping of four Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives elected in 2018 |
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| Nickname | Personal name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Little Mac Miller[142] | Mac Miller | Rapper; released the song "Donald Trump" in 2011, which caused Trump and Miller to feud for years, with Trump demanding royalties since Miller used his name |
| Jeff Bozo[143] | Jeff Bezos | Chairman of Amazon; Owner of the Washington Post, which frequently criticizes Donald Trump |
| Horseface[144][145] | Stormy Daniels | Pornographic actress whom Trump paid to cover up an alleged affair[146] |
| Alexander the Great[147][148] | Alexander Ovechkin | National Hockey League captain for the Washington Capitals |
| Dopey Sugar[149][150] | Lord Sugar | British business magnate and politician; host of the BBC reality competition series The Apprentice |
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| Nickname | Official name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Globalist's Club for NO Growth[151] | Club for Growth | Conservative organization |
| Clinton News Network[152][i] | CNN | Multinational cable news channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery |
| Fake News CNN[154][j] | ||
| Low ratings CNN[156] | ||
| Communist Left[157] | Democratic Party | American political party |
| Democrat Party[158][k] | ||
| Lunatic Left[159] | ||
| Radical Left Democrats[160] | ||
| Radical Left Lunatics [161] | ||
| Lincoln Pervert Project[151] | The Lincoln Project | Political action committee working against the reelection of Trump, which targets conservatives |
| Failing Forbes Magazine[162][163] | Forbes | American business magazine |
| MSDNC[164] | MSNBC | American news-based pay television cable channel owned by NBCUniversal |
| Failing New York Times[1] | The New York Times | Newspaper |
| Amazon The Washington Post[165] | The Washington Post | Newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, founder and former CEO of Amazon |
| Unselect Committee[166] | United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack | A select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 |
| Concast[167][168][169] | Comcast | American multinational telecommunications and media conglomerate |
| ABC Fake News[170][171] | ABC News | News division of ABC owned by The Walt Disney Company |
| Nickname | Official name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deface the Nation[172] | Face the Nation | A weekly political talk show on CBS |
| Meet the Fake Press[173] | Meet the Press | A weekly talk show on NBC |
| Meet the Depressed[174] |
| Nickname | Official name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| A very stable genius[175][176] | Donald Trump | Self-epithet, antonomasia. Trump repeatedly described himself as "a very stable genius" from 2018 through 2019.[177][178][179][180] A Very Stable Genius, a 2020 book by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig about Trump's presidency used the nickname.[177] |
| Green New Scam[181] | Green New Deal | Biden’s policies to fund renewable energy projects, to infrastructure projects like bridges and dams.[182] |
| Kung Flu[183] | SARS-CoV-2 | A virus whose first case was diagnosed in China. |
| The Chinese Virus[184] | ||
| The China Virus[185] |
- Brown has had the nickname "Moonbeam", coined by Mike Royko, since the 1970s, predating Trump's use of the nickname.[20]
- The name was in reference to the fact that George P. Bush was the only member of the Bush family to support Trump publicly. Most of the Bush family, including George's father Jeb Bush and former presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, denounced Trump.[23][24]
- The name was about Kasich winning only one state during the Republican primaries.
- "Mad Dog" is not original to Trump; Mattis acquired the nickname during his service in the Marines.[66]
- The nickname has been in use since at least 2010. During Strange's U.S. Senate campaign in 2017, Trump incorrectly implied that he was the first to use it.[100]
- This was said by Trump after he joked that Canada should become the 51st state.
- The nickname "AOC Plus 3" was originally coined by Laura Ingraham before Trump first used it days later.[141]
- The nickname has been in use since at least 2007.[153]
- Hillary Clinton has been credited with using the term "Fake News" prior to Trump. She was documented to have used the term on December 8, 2016, in what was believed to have been a reference to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Trump was documented to have first used the term on January 11, 2017.[155]
- Not original to Trump. See the article Democrat Party (epithet) for more details about the use of the term as an epithet.
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