Donald Trump might think he has a premium on withering nicknames, but his White House aides are catching up, and fast.

Text messages between high-ranking White House officials, obtained Saturday by The Minnesota Star Tribune, reveal a harsh moniker is now being used behind the MAGA administration’s closed doors to describe FBI Director Kash Patel.

Anthony Salisbury, a deputy of top GOP adviser Stephen Miller, is understood to have described Patel in a Signal exchange with colleagues as a “giant douche canoe.”

Salisbury levelled the Succession-esque putdown at the FBI director over his decision to can several agency employees who’d been photographed kneeling at protests in 2020, even as Miller’s deputy agreed President Trump was almost certain to look kindly on the firings.

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