President Biden’s reelection campaign has dubbed former President Trump “Broke Don,” taking a strategy out of Trump’s playbook that his political rivals know all too well.
Trump has used nicknames — from “Little Marco” to “Crooked Hillary” to “Lyin’ Ted” — to put down a variety of opponents. For much of 2020, Biden’s moniker, courtesy of Trump, was “Sleepy Joe.”
Now, the Biden team is seeking to turn the tables in attempting to make one stick to Trump while it worked this week to highlight the former president’s lagging fundraising numbers in the 2024 race.
It’s honestly embarrassing that our political landscape has been reduced to this.
If you think this is the first time in American history that our politicians have resorted to petty name calling I’m going to have to assume your lessons in American history stopped sometime in the third grade, right after you traced your hand and colored it in with crayons to look like a turkey.
Things were worse before, so you cant ever ask for more
Really should just be Biden’s campaign slogan at this point, he’d at least get points for being upfront about it
Hey, democrats tried “when they go low, we go high” for 40 years and look where that got them.
Now they’re trying “when they go low, we knee them in the fucking face.” I say good on them for trying something different for a change.
Yeah, but republicans don’t care if you’re a rapist. They definitely care if you’re poor.
Who’s rapist Brock Turner? Is it the same rapist as rapist Brock Allen Turner who is currently using the name Allen?
Ugh. If you’re going to go low, workshop the name-calling. Go with alliteration or rhyming. And nothing too fancy, like Destitute Don.
At least make it flow a bit, like Broke Donny.
Or go sing-songy, like: Donny Chapter 11, Don-o Busto, or Donny The Cheat.
But if you really want to get under his skin, you can’t go wrong with: Dirt-Poor Donny.
Repeat 1000 times.
You can’t use big words here. The right that are smart enough to know the word destitute, know why they’re voting republican. Broke Donny would be my choice though. I already call him Donny or orange Jesus, to aggravate my parents when they start to talk about all the good he’s doing now. It’s Easter Sunday next week, I look forward to testing each variation.
I don’t know if that’d go over well with the many struggling broke Americans.
Yeah, broke might really anger Trump, but it’s a bad look for a wealthy guy to be calling someone broke as an insult. I don’t know that Trump could capitalize on it, but his surrogates in the media might.
Biden is playing to an audience that gets upset when Trump attacks folks who are disabled or checks notes have a son killed in Iraq. I doubt it will hit the same, especially when so many Democrats are also broke.
Even broke people tend to feel a fair amount of pity and disgust when someone goes broke because of their own stupid decisions. When those stupid decisions include breaking the law, the ratio tends to have more disgust and less pity. Now top that with the person in question being notorious for disparaging broke people, and I think the only people who will get their hackles up about this are his rabid supporters.
He called himself “Honest Don” on Truth Social. Biden should just play on that and go with Dishonest Don.
