Former American President George W. Bush is widely known to use nicknames to refer to journalists, fellow politicians, and members of his White House staff.
Nickname | Personal name | Notes |
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Poppy | George H. W. Bush[1] | 41st President of the United States, George W. Bush's father |
Bushie | Laura Bush[2] | 43rd First Lady of the United States, George W. Bush's wife. Nickname is mutual. |
Nickname | Personal name | Office |
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Dino | Jean Chrétien[3] | 20th Prime Minister of Canada |
Pootie-Poot | Vladimir Putin[4][5][6] | President and former Prime Minister of Russia |
Ostrich Legs | ||
Bandar Bar | Bandar bin Sultan[7] | Former ambassador to the United States from Saudi Arabia |
Landslide | Tony Blair[8] | Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Man of Steel | John Howard and Kevin Rudd[9] | Former Prime Ministers of Australia |
Juni | Junichiro Koizumi[10] | 56th Prime Minister of Japan |
Saak | Mikheil Saakashvili[11] | 3rd President of Georgia |
Nickname | Personal name | Notes |
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Bama | Barack Obama[31] | 44th President of the United States |
Rock | ||
Boner | John Boehner[32] | Republican Majority Leader, later Speaker of the House |
No. 3 | Nancy Pelosi[33] | Speaker of the House |
Big Boy | Chris Christie[34] | United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, later Governor of New Jersey |
Jazzman | John Conyers[35] | Michigan United States Congressman |
Pablo | Paul Wellstone[36] | Minnesota Senator |
Pedro | Peter King[8] | New York Congressman |
Hogan[37] | John McCain[8] | Arizona Senator, Republican nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election |
Big George | George Miller[1] | California Congressman |
Freddy Boy | Fred Upton[1] | Michigan Congressman |
Freddo | ||
Congressman Kickass | John Sweeney[38] | New York Congressman |
Nellie[39] | Ben Nelson[40] | Nebraska Senator. "Nellie" was superseded by its alternative. |
Benny[39] | ||
Benator | ||
Ellis | Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer[41] | New York Senator |
Ali | Barbara Boxer[8] | California Senator |
Frazier | Dianne Feinstein[8] | California Senator |
Sabertooth | Barney Frank[42] | Massachusetts Congressman |
Red | Adam Putnam[43] | Florida Congressman |
Nickname | Personal name | Notes |
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The Cobra | Maureen Dowd[44] | New York Times columnist |
Stretch | David Gregory[45][46][47] | Television journalist formerly with NBC, currently with CNN |
Little Stretch | ||
Stretch | Dick Kyle[47] | Political correspondent with Bloomberg News |
Super Stretch | Bill Sammon[47] | Former White House correspondent for The Washington Times and The Washington Examiner, current Fox News editing manager |
Mikey | Mike Emanuel[48] | Fox News White House correspondent |
Shades | Peter Wallsten[49] | Political reporter with the Wall Street Journal. Bush mocked him for wearing sunglasses inside, not knowing Wallsten is partially blind. |
Panchito | Frank Bruni[50] | New York Times reporter who covered the Bush campaign in 2000 |
Nickname | Personal name | Notes |
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Kenny Boy | Kenneth Lay[51] | Enron Corporation CEO |
Weadie | Doug Wead[52] | Author |
Weadnik | ||
The Englishman | Peter McMahon[53] | Dana Perino's husband |
Flies on the Eyeballs Guy | Cofer Black[54] | Director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center |
Rosey | Jack Rosen[55] | Chief Executive of Rosen Partners LLC. |