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Trump's nickname.

portlandatheist said:
It is Bunker Boy. I cannot speak for Dann, but I think it has a nice ring to it.
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Stacyhs said:
Bunker Boy.

I like it.
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Yeah, but are you going to start using it?

Mumbles refers to President Trump as "Dolt 45" almost exclusively. Someone else here, I forget who, is pretty consistent with the "Cheeto Benito".

I haven't noticed any of these other nicknames, outside of singular mentions in this thread (and quotes of those posts). Where is the courage to go with these convictions?
 
theprestige said:
Yeah, but are you going to start using it?

Mumbles refers to President Trump as "Dolt 45" almost exclusively. Someone else here, I forget who, is pretty consistent with the "Cheeto Benito".

I haven't noticed any of these other nicknames, outside of singular mentions in this thread (and quotes of those posts). Where is the courage to go with these convictions?
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I usually refer to him as just Trump but you are right, I should be more consistent and use my favorite nickname: The Orange Menace.
 
theprestige said:
Yeah, but are you going to start using it?

Mumbles refers to President Trump as "Dolt 45" almost exclusively. Someone else here, I forget who, is pretty consistent with the "Cheeto Benito".

I haven't noticed any of these other nicknames, outside of singular mentions in this thread (and quotes of those posts). Where is the courage to go with these convictions?
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I don't think the President ( or Oompa Troompa, if you prefer) referring to Secretary Clinton as Crooked Hillary exemplifies courage. Quite the opposite, IMO.
 
Thermal said:
I don't think the President ( or Oompa Troompa, if you prefer) referring to Secretary Clinton as Crooked Hillary exemplifies courage. Quite the opposite, IMO.
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It's a figure of speech. Besides, courageous or not, it actually stuck in your head.

It doesn't take much courage to make a good nickname stick. Or even to make a bad nickname stick. All you have to do is use it repeatedly.
 
theprestige said:
It's a figure of speech. Besides, courageous or not, it actually stuck in your head.

It doesn't take much courage to make a good nickname stick. Or even to make a bad nickname stick. All you have to do is use it repeatedly.
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It did stick in my head, but associated with how undignified our Chief Executive is. When I hear "Crooked Hillary" the first thing that comes to mind is that the President has the mind of a spoiled, bratty child.

A clever/witty nickname may have done wonders. But he is not a clever or witty man, as he reminds us daily.
 
Thermal said:
It did stick in my head, but associated with how undignified our Chief Executive is. When I hear "Crooked Hillary" the first thing that comes to mind is that the President has the mind of a spoiled, bratty child.

A clever/witty nickname may have done wonders. But he is not a clever or witty man, as he reminds us daily.
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I think you've said it more often than I have, at this point. I'll take your word for it that it comes out as an anti-Trump thing to you, when you say it.
 
I just like the name John Barron or David Dennison, two of his aliases.

I think there's something about an alias that hits harder than a nickname made up by political opponents. They allude to events that are potentially embarrassing to Trump and that may make them more powerful than just "Don the Con" or simply flipping Trump's nicknames back at him.
 
theprestige said:
It's a figure of speech. Besides, courageous or not, it actually stuck in your head.

It doesn't take much courage to make a good nickname stick. Or even to make a bad nickname stick. All you have to do is use it repeatedly.
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And after all, that's all it takes for Trump Trash to follow Trump:

If Trump uses it repeatedly, Trump Trash will believe!
 
theprestige said:
I think three syllables works better than four. Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Hmmm...that didn't stop you from repeatedly pimping "covidfefe" on the previous page, for some reason. And let's face it, "covidfefe" doesn't roll off the tongue anywhere near as well as "Bunker Baby".
 
Venom said:
I just like the name John Barron or David Dennison, two of his aliases.

I think there's something about an alias that hits harder than a nickname made up by political opponents.
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Interesting hypothesis. I wonder if there's any way to test it. My impression is that aliases don't carry much weight at all, unless they're really hammered home by a consistent and long-running narrative that emphasizes them. Like if the media were running weekly stories about the aliases, and repeating phrases like, "Donald Trump, a.k.a., John Barron", then yeah.

Otherwise... who's going to notice or care? Probably any nickname that relies on the events of a single weekly news cycle isn't going to have much staying power.
 
I’m starting to like FourFlusher.

Especially because it can refer to two things.
 
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