Donald Trump has shortened Hillary Clinton's nickname from 'Crooked Hillary' to 'Crooked'

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton 2016.
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Some people are so well-known, they need only one name. For instance, there's Adele, Cher, Beyoncé, Bono, Oprah, and now — thanks to Donald Trump's nicknaming genius — "Crooked." Yes, that's "Crooked" as in "Crooked Hillary Rodham Clinton," Trump's chosen nickname for the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

In a tweet Thursday, Trump took the liberty of treating "Crooked" as just another part of Clinton's given name, with an image that read, in parentheses, "Crooked has spent $500,000 a day in TV ads":

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