Trump Angrily Insists He Spends Almost No Time At All Coming Up With Mean Nicknames About Ron DeSantis

If you’ve been conscious for the last half a decade and change, you are well aware of the fact that one of Donald Trump’s “things” is coming up with mean, infantile nicknames about his perceived enemies. Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, Lyin’ James Comey, and Crazy Nancy are some of the most well-known ones, but these only represent a fraction of the man’s oeuvre. Not surprisingly, the former president took to calling Ron DeSantis, his would-be competition for the GOP presidential nomination, “Ron DeSanctimonious” last year, and more recently, he’s apparently been referring to the Florida governor as “Meatball Ron” and “Shutdown Ron,” the first being an apparent reference to his somewhat squat appearance, and the latter the restrictions he put in place at the start of the pandemic.

On Sunday, in a piece about DeSantis’s strategy for dealing with Trump’s attacks, The New York Times wrote:

Mr. Trump, who has spent weeks trying to goad Mr. DeSantis into a fight with rude nicknames like “Ron DeSanctimonious,” is stepping up his social-media-fueled assault, even as polls and interviews show that Mr. DeSantis has become the leading alternative to the former president for many voters and donors.

Mr. Trump’s efforts to undermine Mr. DeSantis began with the “DeSanctimonious” nickname as the governor concluded his successful reelection campaign. Many conservatives—who had cheered Mr. Trump’s behavior when it was directed at Democrats—reacted angrily and were protective of Mr. DeSantis.

There was nothing in there about how long it took Trump to come up with DeSanctimonious, or any of the other nicknames he’s given the governor, and yet on Monday night, he took to Truth Social to angrily write: “All of the Fake News is reporting that I spend large amounts of my time coming up with a good ‘nickname’ for Ron DeSanctimonious, who is obviously going to give the presidential ‘thing’ a shot. They are all 100% wrong, I don’t even think about it—A very unimportant subject to me!!!” Setting aside the question of where Trump read or thinks he read reporting that he’s been devoting large amounts of time to nicknaming, it’s obvious he’s got a strong fear about people thinking he works hard on these things, as opposed to just coming up with them spur of the moment. Which no one was probably thinking in the first place, until he took to social media to protest too much, and now we’re just going to assume he spends every waking hour on this shit.

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

As a reminder, Trump has reportedly called Mitch McConnell a “piece of shit” and recently made racist attacks on his wife

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