Trump Embraces Biden’s ‘Great MAGA King’ Nickname and Conservatives Follow Suit

Zachary LeemanMay 12th, 2022, 10:44 am
 

Donald Trump Embraces Great MAGA King Nickname

President Joe Biden has provided Donald Trump with a new nickname, and it took only hours for Trump and other conservatives to rally around the term: “Great MAGA King.”

In a Wednesday speech, Biden continued blasting the “MAGA” crowd by taking at at his predecessor and dubbing him with his new title.

“Under my predecessor — the great MAGA king — the deficit increased every single year he was president. The first year of my presidency, the first year, I reduced the deficit, literally reduced the deficit by $350 billion, first year,” he said while speaking in Chicago.

The insult isn’t much of an insult to Trump, as the former president took to the social media app Truth Social and posted a meme showing a bearded Trump holding a sword in a mock poster for the 2003 film Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King. For the meme, the title is appropriately changed to The Return of the MAGA King.

Conservatives quickly spread the meme beyond Truth Social onto platforms like Twitter, and they jumped on the nickname, getting it trending with a mix of mockery and full-on embracement.

“The only surprise is that Joe Biden is not responsible for New Coke,” Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro tweeted, including a list of other terms deployed by Biden during his presidency, including the recent “Ultra MAGA.”

Biden also recently blasted what he called the extremists of the Republican Party, labeling them “ultra MAGA.” He called the vague group of Trump loyalists in the party “the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history” while speaking at the White House earlier this month.

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Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.