I don't get what that means. Is it supposed to be an insult? I don't know of "DJ" being an insult. Also, it could be confusing with the president being D. J. Trump.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

DJ is not an insult per se, of course. But calling Vance a DJ is surely an insult, as you don’t get him seriously, and mocking him instead.

I have never heard anyone calling Trump a DJ, but yes, makes sense, I guess. I’ve heard him being called an orange ape or monkey though. It seems, it differs from culture to culture.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

D. J. are Trump's first two initials. It's not calling him a "disk jockey". It's literally from his name.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That was obvious. What I meant is it’s weird people don’t morph his name for the sake of mocking him. The guy is obviously very sensitive to his appearance (look at his eye lashes, lol), so name morphing is an obvious bullying. I thought that’s universal among cultures to morph names to sound silly. I’m against bullying (of kids and regular people), but the idiots in the current US administration are an obvious bullying target, especially when we ‘enjoy’ (not really, frankly) the show outside the US.

Especially giving all you need is to call him DJ instead of JD. It looks like disc jockey is his profession, which is a serious downgrade from vice president. With all the respect to all real disk jockeys out there, vice president of the US is quite a position of power. Even when it’s a complete loser clown on that position.

I’m coming from a culture where people never use initials to seriously name anyone in any situation, so DJ Trump is simply not a thing. He’s just Donald Trump, or just Trump. So it’s never pronounced this way. It’s only the written form you may find it.