Why Trump Is Calling DeSantis ‘Meatball Ron’

Daily Beast: “For Donald Trump, the first step is always to label his victim. Indeed, assigning a good bad nickname appears to be a sine qua non in the Trump playbook. Once he gets that part right, the job is half-done.”

“For example, ‘Crazy Joe’ (which gave way to the superior ‘Sleepy Joe’) never resonated the way ‘Crooked Hillary’ (or Lyin’ Ted, Low Energy Jeb, and Lil’ Marco) did. And now that ‘Meatball Ron’ has become his leading moniker for Ron DeSantis, Trump might have landed on another keeper…”

“But what does ‘meatball’ even mean? The New York Times calls it ‘an apparent dig at his appearance,’ which I take to suggest a shorter, pudgier frame—while hinting at a lock of social grace. But ‘meatball’ is also a slur against Italian-Americans (all eight of DeSantis’ great-grandparents came here from Italy).”