From legal analysts to political strategists,
Social Media erupted on Sunday with people eager to pin
Donald Trump with a new nickname. Trump, who has long been considered the king of political nicknames, has previously dubbed President
Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe" and then, ultimately, "Crooked Joe." Now, the internet would like to bestow a name upon the former president as he faces a crucial deadline to pay get a bond for hundreds of millions of dollars a court ordered him to pay for fraud. The name is Don "Poorleone." The name appears to reference Trump's recent financial woes, as well as allegations that he has conducted himself like a mob boss. ALSO READ : A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes On X, formerly known as
Twitter, the nickname had been floated in 2022 by various individuals. But it didn't catch
fire until recently, March 21, when a user named @TheJackGreen used the nick name. It was used a couple more times before a now-viral post by Tim Hannan , @TimHannan , who said, "It would be a shame, it really would, if Trump’s new nickname Don Poorleone doesn’t stick." From there, it went everywhere. A parody account of Special Counsel Jack Smith wrote, "I made an offer everyone refused" along with the nick name. Mike Madrid, who served as the Golden State's GOP political director before co-founding the group of current and former anti-Trump
Republicans known as the Lincoln Project, said, " #DonPoorleone is starting to trend!" Similarly, Republicans Against Trump wrote, " #DonPoorleone is now trending on Twitter." "Well done, all," said Allison Gill, a veteran and comedian better known as Mueller, She Wrote, along with a screenshot of #DonPoorleone" trending. The nickname has even found its way off social media, and onto a cable news show. "There is a reason why some people are calling Donald Trump, Don Poorleone right now," former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal said on MSNBC Sunday. If Eric Trump was looking for some sympathy over his family being unable to find anyone willing to back a half-billion-dollar appeal bond by Monday, he won't find too many shoulders to cry on if he checks out X, formerly known as Twitter. During a Sunday morning appearance on
Fox News with host Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump's middle son went on an extended rant about the unfairness of the penalty after the Trump Organization was found guilty of committing financial fraud by Judge Arthur Engoron. Where he might have lost any shred of sympathy he was seeking was when he whined that financial institutions laughed at the half billion dollar request aimed at keeping
New York Attorney General Letitia James from seizing the family's assets with a deadline set for Monday. ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes Specifically, he complained, "Maria, they were laughing. They were laughing. Top executives of the largest surety companies had never seen anything of this size. And what, they're going to start seizing assets if he can't put up something that's not available in the United States?" That opened the door for critics of the Trump family to pile on, with one commenter writing, " They wouldn’t have laughed at real Billionaires ." After that, came the deluge of snarky comments. "I can’t imagine why no one would want to give a billion dollar loan to someone who went bankrupt in the 80s and again in the 90s then spent 20 years falsely inflating the value of everything he owned to secure fraudulent loans ," wrote Pro Lib. Darren Kaplan imagined the conversation went, "Hi, we're some of the most notorious deadbeats on the planet. Can I have a bond to stay a judgment that found us liable for defrauding our lenders for decades? Why are you laughing? " With one X user writing, "They were laughing AT you, Eric," SnarkTank added, " Oh my God he’s so close to getting it ." "This is what happens when you stiff everyone that you do business with," Critically Independent helpfully offered . "His daddy just said he has a half billion in cash why is out there begging for it? Why doesn’t his sister loan it to him? " another added. Don Green suggested an alternative way to raise the money, writing, "I'd pay to watch a video of that. They should have recorded the 30 rejections. IT would be gold . Might be able to raise the $500M." "So Eric, most people ask relatives to help with things like bonds when they get into trouble. Do you have any brothers in law who may have access to a half billion? I seem to remember one of them got hold of some Saudi money for an inexplicable reason ," Roberto Gee asked. Tom Dunn suggested the laughter was " The moment when he realized the grift was up." Another said it all with a meme: — (@) CONTINUE READING Show less Former
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus blamed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other fringe members of the GOP caucus for causing "chaos" for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, Priebus reacted to Rep. Mike Gallagher's (R-WI) decision to retire early. "Here's the deal, though, and it's happening all over the country," Priebus said of gerrymandering. "435 House seats, only 20 are in play. I mean, what that means is that they're almost all really, really Democrat, or all really, really Republican." ALSO READ: Marjorie Taylor Greene to federal
election regulators: get bent over ‘MTG’ "Now, second problem, division is pure profit," he continued. "The two top-grossing probably members of the House or the
Senate is AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene because the division is pure profit." Priebus insisted Republicans did not hold a "real majority" in the House. "I mean, you have 8 or 10 people that run around the Capitol and cause chaos for the speaker," he said. "And last thing, the speaker rules just create a very weak speaker, the by rule." "All of that together creates this chaos," he explained. Watch the video below from ABC or at the link . CONTINUE READING Show less The U.S. government is not ruling out consequences for Israel if it goes ahead with plans for a ground offensive in Rafah, plans that the
White House, Israel's main backer, strongly opposes. "I am ruling out nothing," U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview broadcast on Sunday when asked by a journalist whether there would be consequences from the U.S. if the
Israeli operation in the overcrowded city in the south of
Gaza goes ahead. "We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major
MILITARY operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake," Harris said. CONTINUE READING Show less