Donald Trump denies workshopping 'Meatball Ron' name for Gov. DeSantis
Reports that Donald Trump has been cooking up spicy new nicknames for Ron DeSantis have been exaggerated, the former President is asserting.
In a post on his Truth Social account Monday, the former President tried to knock down a New York Times story that accused him of calling the Florida Governor “Meatball Ron” and “Shutdown Ron” in private.
“All of the Fake News is reporting that I spend large amounts of my time coming up with a good ‘nickname’ for Ron DeSanctimonious, who is obviously going to give the presidential ‘thing’ a shot. They are all 100% wrong, I don’t even think about it — A very unimportant subject to me!!!”
The claim from reporters Maggie Haberman and Michael Bender was tha...
