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Chas Danner (May 5, 2019). "Biden Stumbles Into Trump's Nickname War". NY Mag. Trump's name-calling is prolific enough to have its own Wikipedia page, but the names themselves often seem lazily conceived, focusing on people's physical appearance or demeanor, or just reusing the same prepositive adjectives for different people, like "crazy," "wacky," or "lyin'."
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I just reverted an addition of this nickname, but it feels worthy of discussion here. I don't think reliable sources describe Trump's emphasis on Obama's middle name as a nickname, but there has been lasting coverage and sustained usage of Trump using this rhetorical trick. What do other editors think? Dingers5Days (talk) 14:04, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I tried doing the same. Dingers5Days removed the entry, citing that "Trump used the nickname in one Truth Social post", and that "we can’t add nicknames if they’ve only been used once (so far)". WiiDS (talk) 19:25, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And that’s not even true, yes he used it in a Truth Social Post but he’s also used it in at least one other occasion while having dinner with Trudeau. Mwh11 (talk) 20:59, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
[1][2] Sources from Fox News that Trump claimed Justin Trudeau could be the governor of Canada, with an additional CBC news source that reiterates Trumps taunts while at Mar a Lago, the first such incident of the “Governor” nickname Mwh11 (talk) 21:51, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To illustrate my point-- the 2021 RfC [3] (as seen on the top of the talk page) states that "Trump should have used the nickname on at least two separate occasions". This Fox News article does not describe Trump as calling Trudeau "governor", just that "he could still be governor of the 51st state". It's rather semantic, but it's debatable enough that we should wait until he clearly uses the nickname twice (which he later did). Dingers5Days (talk) 17:17, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As of Trump's Truth Social post about Chrystia Freeland's firing the nickname now meets the criteria, as Trump has used the nickname multiple times. Dingers5Days (talk) 17:08, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Should this article really contain nicknames Trump did not invent?
Easy to imagine the page getting very long if we cataloged every nickname ever used by Trump. https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/videos/2114637965245968/ For example here's a video of Trump calling Edwin Aldrin by his nickname "Buzz." It has very little to do with the described phenomenon of Trump nicknames but currently fits the criteria for the list. Gazingo (talk)
