Meatball Head: Trump Humiliates DeSantis

America’s Lawyer E41: The recent train derailment in Ohio that spread toxic chemicals over an entire town has more and more people calling out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg – we’ll explain why he’s the target of the public’s anger. Microsoft is having a world of problems with their new artificial intelligence bot that has started comparing journalists to Hitler. And a weird trait of Donald Trump’s could prove that he understands human psychology better than other politician. All that, and more is coming up, so don’t go anywhere – America’s Lawyer starts right now.

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Hi, I'm Mike Papantonio and this is America's Lawyer. The recent train derailment in Ohio that spread toxic chemicals over an entire town has more and more people calling out transportation secretary Buttigieg. We're gonna explain why he's a target. Microsoft is having a world of problems with their new artificial intelligence bot that has started comparing journalists and other people to Hitler and Pol Pot. And a weird trade of Donald Trump's could prove that he understands more human psychology than most politicians. All that and more, it's coming up, don't go anywhere. America's Lawyer starts right now.

Donald Trump has a new nickname for Ron DeSantis and there might be a good reason why he does this. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about what's happening, and along with a lot of other topics, but this Meatball Ron. Now I've heard two different versions. Some are Meatball Head Ron, Meatball Head, and the other was Meatball. Just, just regular Meatball Ron. First, it's usually the first step we see Trump take where it comes to attacking his opponent, and there's a good reason he does it. People might be saying he's crazy, which he is. He's obnoxious, which he is. He's vulgar, which he is. But he has a political reason, doesn't he? Go ahead and talk about it.

He really does. And this is actually a very interesting story because it does show that the one thing Trump is good at is getting people. And he knows that people, same thing you and I have been talking about for 20 years now, the American public has very short attention spans. So if you can capture that attention for any period of time, whether it's with a stupid little nickname or a catchy slogan, you've got 'em.

Mm-hmm.

Like that's all you need. And that's why these other nicknames he has, like, you know, crooked Hillary is still something you see. Lyin' Ted Cruz, plenty of people on the left still use Lyin' Ted Cruz. Those are all nicknames that Trump came up with. And he, as far as we know, has never publicly said Meatball Ron. But everybody in the media has now used that phrase.

It's, it's out there.

It is.

We're gonna talk about that. It's out there. Now, he was smart enough to put it out there and says, oh, I'm not gonna call him that. It's all over. You know, I see Meatball Head and Meatball. I, I don't know which one's going to hit, gonna stick, but I see emojis with Meatball Head and you name it. But I mean, it, he, it kept with Sleepy Joe, you know, Sleepy Joe Biden. Little Marco.

Yeah.

Little Marco definitely stuck. So you mentioned, you mentioned the attention span. It's more complicated than that. When you really take a look at what, why the shrinks are saying this works. They're saying that at this point in time, the average American has a reading and a comprehension ability of about a sixth to seventh grader. So they're always going to gravitate towards the easiest thing. So Meatball Head here may, Trump may not call him Meatball Head, but at this point, we're already seeing it. We're seeing it in social media. We're seeing comments that are coming out where they've got emojis with Meatball Head. So he's really kind of accomplished what he wants to say. Here's what's really important, I think. The, the shrinks say it's all about placing a visual with a word.