Comedian Jon Stewart said on “The Daily Show” on Monday that former President Trump was “researching nicknames” for President Biden over the weekend.
“Trump has [Vice President] “Kamala Harris,” Stewart said. “He’s been running against Joe Biden for six years. That’s all he’s got. He misses the fight so much. He was even working on a nickname for Joe Biden this weekend.”
Then, Trump’s A recent rally in Montana He asked the audience whether they preferred to call Joe Biden “Crooked Joe” or “Sleepy Joe,” nicknames he has used in the past.
“It’s sad,” Stewart said after the video, “It’s like an old man talking to an empty seat on a bench, and then he realizes that’s where his wife used to sit.”
Harris has been gaining momentum since Biden dropped out of the presidential race last month and holds a slight lead over Trump in an average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk, with the vice president receiving 47.8 percent support overall, compared with 46.4 percent for the former president.
Trump has criticized Harris and questioned her racial identity as her political popularity has grown, and her supporters have complained about what they see as a lack of discipline in her campaign messaging in recent days.
“President Trump’s winning formula is very clear,” former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Monday. “It’s fewer insults, more insights and policy contrast.”
Conway added that Trump has “brought back that hunger, that confidence, that underdog, that undervalued image of 2016,” adding, “And when you layer that with a four-year presidential record of growth — rising wages, low unemployment — you get all nine ingredients that you and I know are there.”
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
