Trump pins a nickname on Bernie Sanders

Touting his Tuesday night victories, Donald Trump unveiled a new moniker for yet another political adversary: “Crazy Bernie.”

“Big wins in West Virginia and Nebraska,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee tweeted Wednesday morning. “Get ready for November - Crooked Hillary, who is looking very bad against Crazy Bernie, will lose!”


Minutes later, Trump gave the Vermont senator, who won West Virginia on Tuesday, a backhanded compliment.

“I don't want to hit Crazy Bernie Sanders too hard yet because I love watching what he is doing to Crooked Hillary,” Trump wrote. “His time will come!”

The “Crazy Bernie” nickname comes as Trump signals that he wants Sanders' supporters to back him in the fall, aping the Vermont senator's attacks on Clinton's "judgment" and picking up on some of his other rhetorical tropes.

“I think a lot of the young people that are with Bernie Sanders are going to come to my side because they want jobs. Bernie Sanders and I agree on one thing, trade, that we don’t know what we’re doing on trade,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “The difference is, I’ll make great deals out of it. He doesn’t know what to do. The people that are with Bernie Sanders, the young people, I really believe they’re going to come over and vote for me. I think we’re going to have a lot of crossover.”

The “Crazy Bernie” nickname rounds out the list of Trump’s renamed opponents — “Crooked Hillary,” “Lyin’ Ted,” “Little Marco” and “Low-energy Jeb.”