Donald Trumps Evil Ron DeSantis Nickname, Rank

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Usage: Trump debuted Ron DeSanctimonious at a rally in Pennslyvania a few days before the 2022 midterm elections. The Times reported at the time that it was one of several options Trump was workshopping with friends and advisers; Roger Stone tried this in a Truth Social post days before the rally.

“Ron DeSanctimonious” pic.twitter.com/b7jek5597R

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 6, 2022

The nickname was not well received by Republicans because (a) they were annoyed that Trump was attacking a GOP governor for re-election and (b) it was offensive. However, Trump continued. He’s been using it a lot on Truth Social ever since.

DeSantis laughed off the nickname in a March 21 interview with Piers Morgan. I don’t know how to spell DeSanctimonious. I don’t really know what it means, but I kind of like it, said the Harvard and Yale graduate. It’s long, it has a lot of vowels. I mean, all right, all right.

Feedback: There isn’t much to like about Ron DeSanctimonious: Its long, its clunky, and it feels inauthentic. When Trump tweeted an attack on Sanctimonious James Comey, in 2018 it sparked an online debate over whether he had actually come up with the five-syllable insult himself.

Its message is also old. Trump launched the nickname shortly after DeSantiss’ wife tweeted a hilariously over-the-top video suggesting her husband was literally sent by God to bully woke Floridians. Sanctimonious certainly fits then. But now Trump has floated the allegation that DeSantis had inappropriate relationships with high-school girls when he was a teacher. And he reportedly plans to accuse his rival of being lax on child pornography cases while serving as assistant US Attorney. So is Trump saying that DeSantis is a sleaze or that he is self-righteous?

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