Nicknames are Donald Trump’s stock in trade on the campaign trail. Here’s why they work. The question came during an Oval Office media scrum on Thursday with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, and Donald Trump had prepared his retort well. What did the president think of the announcement that Beto O’Rourke would like to have his job? “I think he’s got a lot of hand movement,” Trump replied, seated, arms at his sides. “I’ve never seen so much hand movement. I said: ‘Is he crazy? Or is that just the way he acts?’” It was a fitting welcome to the race for the endlessly profiled, social-media-happy ex-congressman, fresh off a losing Senate campaign and vision quest across the country. Though O’Rourke, 46, lost some steam by publicly vacillating on whether to run, his youthful flair has many Democrats looking at him as the next Barack Obama. |