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    'Slimeball' Is Trump's Ooziest Insult

    In a tweet targeting former FBI Director James Comey, the president used an epithet whose origins date back 1,000 years.
    by Ben Zimmer Apr 13, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Susan Walsh / AP

    President Trump has added a new epithet to his seemingly endless arsenal of invectives directed at political foes. In a tweet sent early Friday morning, he called former FBI Director James Comey an “untruthful slime ball.”

    It was inevitable that Trump would come up with something colorful to sling at Comey, after details from Comey’s new tell-all began leaking on Thursday. In the book, titled Trump is portrayed in an unflattering light. Not only

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