President Donald Trump is famous for giving other people nicknames. On April 3, Trump turned to Twitter to tweet about “ Little Jeff [sic] Zuker ,” spelling Zucker’s last name incorrectly. Trump also dubbed former President Barack Obama “ Cheatin’ Obama .” Now Twitter users have decided that Trump himself deserves a new nickname, after Stephen Colbert’s above video named “Trump Has A New Nickname In Washington” swelled to more than 2.3 million views. The video dubbed Trump “President Spanky,” giving Trump a taste of his own medicine, after inventing nicknames like “Lyin’ Ted” and “Sloppy Steve.”
As seen in the above video with a segment featuring Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate special prosecutor, Richard noted that President Trump’s new nickname in Washington is “Spanky.” Whereas Richard said it wasn’t a good thing that Trump would be known as “Spanky,” Colbert quipped that he believed it was a very good thing, but joked that President Trump should be given the respect he’s due and called “President Spanky” instead.
As seen in a search for “ Spanky ” via Twitter, the social media network suggests several variations of the nickname that include “Spanky” as a basis. Whereas “Spanky” alone features an endless stream of tweets about President Trump, hashtags and labels like #SpankyThePresident , #presidentspanky , # SpankyTrump, Spanky McBone , and other spanking related words are also flowing into the social networking site.
As reported by the Hill , Colbert and others who began calling the president by “Spanky” nicknames are referencing adult film star Stormy Daniels’s 60 Minutes interview, where she claimed that she spanked Trump with a Forbes magazine that had his face on the cover.
WATCH: Colbert mocks Trump as “President Spanky” for Stormy Daniels story of spanking Trump with magazine https://t.co/PtvlUr2ieL pic.twitter.com/hJ8lFRYMST
— The Hill (@thehill) March 28, 2018
Now Twitter has taken the attention that Colbert has brought to the video of Ben-Veniste claiming that “Spanky” is Trump’s new nickname being spread around Washington and is using it to create a wide variety of nicknames for Trump based around the Spanky themes.
“People are referring to him here in Washington by a new nickname. He’s famous for giving nicknames. He’s now known as ‘Spanky.’”
The bone spurs variation applies to Trump receiving five deferments from fighting in the Vietnam War , according to the New York Daily News , by citing college obligations and an alleged bone spurs condition.
