So much for the new Donald Trump. A basket mouth of republican party presidential candidate who's scared of by notable party members that's more capable than him.

The former president is back, after a brief pause, to the insults and personal attacks that characterized his last two presidential campaigns — less than two weeks after the attempted assassination that allies and aides insisted had left him a changed man.

Facing a new top-of-the-ticket opponent in Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump returned this week to the rhetoric for which he’s known.

He called Harris “dumb as a Rock,” “crazy,” “nuts” and “Laughing Kamala,” in reference to the jovial memes of the vice president that have dominated social media in recent days. He even repurposed an old insult of President Joe Biden, labeling his new opponent “Lyin’ Kamala.”

It’s the latest example of what’s become a familiar cycle for Trump that has played out on a metronomic loop throughout his time on the national stage. Some thought the presidency would change him (it didn’t) or that he would evolve after Jan. 6 (he didn’t).

Through it all, his pugnaciousness has persisted — something that spokesperson Steven Cheung shrugged off in a statement.

“President Trump is a truth-teller, and there is nothing more unifying than telling the truth about a weak, failed, incompetent, and dangerously liberal Kamala Harris and her destructive policies,” Cheung said in response to questions about his latest attacks on the campaign trail.

Still, it’s striking since it wasn’t long ago that his allies were saying that he really had changed. After the July 13 shooting, which killed a man attending the rally, wounded two others and left the former president with a bandaged ear, GOP allies in roughly a dozen interviews with POLITICO used words like “emotional” and “serene” — even “spiritual” — to describe Trump in the days since the attempt on his life.

There were early indications that he may not have been so changed after all. His speech at the Republican National Convention started with a call for unity, but then veered into the kind of bitter, meandering soliloquy that is a staple of his rallies.

This week brought a reversion to the mean — and the mean, with not just the ad hominem attacks on Harris but on Biden as well.

“Does Lyin’ Kamala Harris think Joe Biden is fit to run the U.S.A. for the next six months? She must answer the question,” he said in a social media post. “Now it appears Joe is delegating his Presidential Authority to unelected Washington Bureaucrats! He doesn’t even trust his Vice President. WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?”

His new, new tone came as the political ground has shifted beneath him in a matter of days. Harris raised $100 million in 24 hours — the largest such haul of any candidate in history — from donors seemingly energized over Biden’s decision to drop out of the race.

His own campaign acknowledged a “Harris Honeymoon” in a memo from the campaign’s chief pollster Tony Fabrizio.

“Given what has happened over the past couple of days and her impending VP choice, there is no question that Harris will get her bump earlier than the Democrat’s Convention,” Fabrizio wrote. “And that bump is likely to start showing itself over the next few days and will last a while until the race settles back down.”

There is also the matter of his new running mate, JD Vance. The Ohio senator went through his own transformation from a vocal critic — he once compared Trump to Hitler — to a MAGA attack dog. But the rollout has been less than stellar, with some initial polling calling him the “least liked VP nominee (non-incumbent) since 1980.”

Harris, unlike Biden, has in the early hours of her campaign waged a steady and disciplined case against Trump that he has not seen this year: She has positioned herself as a prosecutor, noting he is a “convicted felon.”

What seemed to bother Trump the most, though, was that Biden, by stepping down from the campaign and elevating Harris, had wrested away from him a most-prized moniker, a title that he had never quite been able to achieve before: hero.

“I can’t believe it!,” he posted to Truth Social. “They’re turning Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, into a “Hero” - He was pushed out of power like a dog, and look what the Radical Left is able to do. MAGA2024!”

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People Are Calling Out Trump For His Lackluster 2-Word Nickname For Kamala Harris

Donald Trump, in keeping with his tradition of coming up with unflattering nicknames for his presidential rivals, recently debuted his new title for Vice President Kamala Harris. But people are calling it a weak insult ― even by his standards.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, held his first campaign rally since his assassination attempt earlier this month in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday. During his speech, he dubbed Harris “Laughing Kamala,” while mispronouncing her first name.

“From the moment we take back the White House from Crooked Joe Biden and Kamala ― I call her ‘Laughing Kamala.’ You ever watch her laugh? She’s crazy,” he said, according to a clip of the speech shared online. “You can tell a lot by a laugh. No, she’s crazy, she’s nuts.”

But, he added: ”She’s not as crazy as Nancy Pelosi — Crazy Nancy.’”

Other Republicans and conservative media figures have mocked Harris’ laughter for years.

On Sunday, “Libs of TikTok,” a right-wing social media account, reposted a video montage of Harris laughing, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “They want this woman to be President.”

President Joe Biden officially endorsed Harris as the new Democratic nominee on Sunday, shortly after he announced that he was no longer running for reelection.

Trump has long been known for his monikers. He often refers to Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” and he previously called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “Ron DeSanctimonious” (a nickname he’s since “retired”), to name a few.

But some people on X have since called out Trump for promoting a particularly unoriginal nickname for Harris that doesn’t quite seem like an insult ― especially since Harris’ laugh and gleefulness has delighted a lot of her supporters online.

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