Trump's Unoriginal Nickname For Bernie Sanders Falls Flat: 'The Best You Can Do?'
President Donald Trump once again resorted to name-calling as he passive-aggressively wished Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) well in his bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee for 2020.
Crazy Bernie has just entered the race. I wish him well!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2019
Of course, it’s not the first time Trump has used the “crazy” moniker on Sanders:
Open enrollment starts today on lower-priced Medicare Advantage plans so loved by our great seniors. Crazy Bernie and his band of Congressional Dems will outlaw these plans. Disaster!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2018
The real story on Collusion is in Donna B's new book. Crooked Hillary bought the DNC & then stole the Democratic Primary from Crazy Bernie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
Hillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to beat Crazy Bernie Sanders. Is she allowed to so collude? Unfair to Bernie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2017
I don't want to hit Crazy Bernie Sanders too hard yet because I love watching what he is doing to Crooked Hillary. His time will come!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2016
Big wins in West Virginia and Nebraska. Get ready for November - Crooked Hillary, who is looking very bad against Crazy Bernie, will lose!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2016
However, Trump’s tweet followed a report by The Associated Press that the president was workshopping nicknames for the 2020 Democratic candidates. His apparent failure to find a new epithet for Sanders led to ridicule on Twitter:
All that workshopping and 'Crazy Bernie' is the best he could come up with? https://t.co/ytBUNX4ojA
— Daniel Orton (@MisterOrton) February 20, 2019
Welcome back to 2016 https://t.co/KLDhbmB5if
— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) February 20, 2019
Imagine a man in his 70's, who thinks Twitter is work, calling another man crazy.
— Jon Hopper (@Hoppalicious) February 20, 2019
Crazy Bernie is right up there with Trump's great nickname for Nancy Pelosi: Nancy.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) February 20, 2019
New nicknames for this election? https://t.co/WYqx32PfvD
— Leah Linscheid (@news3leah) February 20, 2019
#BREAKING: President Pot Calls Senator Kettle Black
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) February 20, 2019
Fixed it for you pic.twitter.com/n6eR41oAOK
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) February 20, 2019
The man who literally was almost removed by the 25th Amendment is calling another man "Crazy". LOL!
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 20, 2019
Trump's nickname for Sanders is "Crazy Bernie."
America's nickname for Trump is "Traitor Trump."
I'll take "Crazy" any day.— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) February 20, 2019
How can Trump wish someone welll while literally in the same tweet label that person crazy with a bullying nickname? Extremely weird, childish, and unpresidential.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) February 20, 2019
If Bernie is "crazy," then I don't want to know what you would refer to yourself as being!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) February 20, 2019
That's the best you can do?
— Marvellous Mark Monro (@MMMonro) February 20, 2019
Sanders announced his run on Tuesday.
In an interview on “CBS This Morning,” he said it “is absolutely imperative” that Trump be defeated “because I think it is unacceptable and un-American — to be frank with you — that we have a president who is a pathological liar.”
He also called Trump “a racist,” “a sexist” and “a xenophobe.”
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