By
Margaret Hartmann,
senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012
The days of Donald Trump bestowing stupid-yet-iconic nicknames on his opponents — like “Low-Energy Jeb,” “Lyin’ Ted,” and “Liddle Marco” — are long gone. In recent years, he’s come up with only one truly great nickname: “Meatball Ron.” But tragically, Trump was too woke to use it. Instead, we’ve been stuck with boring and confusing insults like “Crazy” Nancy Pelosi, Mitch “Broken Old Crow” McConnell, and Letitia “Peekaboo” James.
Now Trump’s nickname game has hit a new low with his moniker for Georgia senator Jon Ossoff. The president posted this on Truth Social today after learning that the Republican he endorsed in the Senate runoff, Representative Mike Collins, will challenge the incumbent Democrat in November:
