The Great Pumpkin Gets a Nickname

Whew, TGIF, Friends,

We've come to the end of the slowest week in months in terms of election activity, and next week will be much the same. But it's been an eventful week nonetheless.

Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination by attaining 1,237 pledged delegates.

Also, the results of one of the active investigations of Hillary Clinton, this one conducted by her own State Department, were released. They weren't pretty.

The independent inspector general's report stated that Hillary broke federal rules on internet use and made no effort to have her personal email server approved by anyone. She also instructed underlings not to talk about it.

It's just another example of Hillary's decades-old pattern of misbehavior and of conducting herself as if the law doesn't apply to her. This will result in her ultimate fall from grace, hopefully sooner rather than later when she's already president.

Of all the monikers Donald Trump has bestowed upon his rivals, Hillary's hit the bullseye--"Crooked Hillary."

We're all familiar by now with most of the others: Lyin' Ted, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb, Goofy Elizabeth, etc., etc.

The Donald is very skilled at picking out peoples' flaws and using them to get under their skin. Yet, so far, only one such not-so-successful counterattack has ever rattled Trump at all.

Before being absolutely torn to pieces by him, Marco Rubio caused some actual damage when he mocked The Donald's smallish hands (and implied they were indicative of his penis size).

Gee, Marco. Nobody's perfect. Why'd you have to go ahead and talk about my hands?
That wasn't very nice, Marco. Besides, they're not that small. Are they? Melania?

I've studied Trump's hands, and indeed his index fingers are about a half inch or so shorter than one would expect from the size of his palms; not very dramatic. But because The Donald insists on giving his opponents belittling nicknames, I think he deserves one too.

Trump's index fingers are short and stumpy. They look more like little nubbins rather than man-sized index fingers. And he habitually gestures with them, so we get to see them all the time.

I've come up with a nickname for Donald Trump, which I hope really gets to him.

I'm going to start calling our potential next president, 'Nubbs', in honor of his nubby little index fingers, and I hope you'll help me get his new nickname out there. He won't be able to handle it.

So Nubbs, this post's for you.