During the 2016 election, Donald Trump effectively dismissed his primary opponents as Low Energy Jeb, Little Marco and Lyin’ Ted. During the general election, his nickname for Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton – Crooked Hillary – stuck like glue.

More recently, Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as Little Rocket Man, mocking the unstable foreign leader’s threats to destroy the United States with nuclear weapons.

This week, The Donald introduced the world to his newest enemy: “Sloppy Steve” Bannon.

Trump lashed out at his former chief strategist over Bannon’s comments in excerpts for the new book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff, who admitted on the “Today” show Friday that he was willing to say whatever was necessary to gain access to the White House, according to The Washington Post.

 

“I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book!” Trump tweeted late Thursday. “Gull of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!”

In the book, Bannon unloads on Trump and his seven months as a strategist in the White House, attacking the president, his daughter and son-in-law, and others as inept fools bumbling their way through the presidency.

Bannon also said an alleged meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials and a group of Russians during the 2016 election was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” and he predicted “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,” according to The Guardian.

Bannon, the head of Breitbart News, also criticized Trump’s firing of former FBI director James Comey, and alleged special counsel Robert Mueller is setting his sights on taking down Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband.

“You realize where this is going,” Bannon said in the book. “This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose (senior prosecutor Andrew) Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to f**king Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s as plain as a hair on your face.”

Bannon alleged “It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy. They’re going to go right through that. They’re going to roll those two guys up and say play me or trade me.”

Bannon also insinuated he may run for president in 2020.

Wolfe alleges he received unprecedented access to the White House during key points in Trump’s young presidency and quoted numerous folks – from Republican power brokers and donors to those who still work in the White House – who paint the president as an idiot.

“He’s not only crazy,” Wolff quoted billionaire Thomas Barrack Jr., “he’s stupid.”

Many folks have already come out to deny comments attributed to them in the new book, and Wolff acknowledges in the prologue that some of it might not be true, according to Business Insider.

“Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book,” Wolff wrote.

“Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in the accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true.”

Regardless, the White House has strongly disputed Wolff’s reporting, and the president himself has worked to set the record straight about Wolff and “Sloppy Steve.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told Fox & friends Trump and Wolff “spoke once by phone for a few minutes, but it wasn’t about the book.”

Wolff, she said, “is a guy who made up a lot of stories to try to sell books and I think more and more people are starting to see that his facts just simply don’t add up,” according to Newsmax.

Sanders told reporters that Trump is “furious, disgusted” by Bannon’s comments about Don Jr., which she called “outrageous” and “completely false.”

Trump, meanwhile, has attacked Bannon, who has lost the support of Republican benefactors in response to his comments in Wolff’s book.

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” Trump said in an official statement.

“Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans.”

More recently, Trump mocked “Sloppy Steve” for losing his financial backers, the Mercer Family.

 

“The Mercer Family recently dumped the leaker known as Sloppy Steve Bannon!” Trump tweeted Friday. “Smart!”

Rebekah Mercer, who supports Breitbart News, also made a rare public statement Thursday.

“I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected,” she said, according to The Washington Post. “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements.”