The mainstream press has pilloried President Donald Trump for announcing that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "died like a dog," and "a coward." To put icing on the mockery cake, Trump has invited "Conan," the military working dog that tracked al-Baghdadi and cornered him in a tunnel, to the White House and referred to Conan as "beautiful" and "talented."
...Churchill is also famous for referring to Gandhi, who had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as "a seditious Middle Temple lawyer of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace . . . ."
British First World War Prime Minister Lloyd George apparently so loathed his political rival Churchill and considered him so unprincipled that George publicly announced that Churchill "[w]ould make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises."
...Other noted American statesmen have used similar insults to describe their opponents. John Quincy Adams referred to Thomas Jefferson as "a slur upon the moral government of the world." His father, John Adams apparently called Alexander Hamilton, of $10 bill fame, "a bastard brat of a Scotch peddler.
President Lyndon Johnson attacked then-House minority leader and future President Gerald Ford as "a nice guy [who] had played too much football with his helmet off."
Theodore Roosevelt, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating peace between Russia and Japan, thereby ending the Russo-Japanese War, is supposed to have referred to his boss, and then President, William McKinley as "having the backbone of a chocolate éclair."
Current British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was a sitting member of Parliament, is also on record as having won a £1,000 prize for the "President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition" with the following entry: "There was a young fellow from Ankara, Who was a terrific wankerer. Till he sowed his wild oats, With the help of a goat, But he didn’t even stop to thankera."
...Any commenter with any knowledge of history would recognize that mocking, and even taunting an opponent, even at the highest levels of the political class, is a long-standing tradition.
Even when Trump follows these norms, he is pilloried. But perhaps, he should continue. After all, if he continues along this path he stands a good chance of earning a Nobel Prize in Literature like Sir Winston Churchill and a Nobel Peace Prize, just like fellow President Theodore Roosevelt. Judging by the standards applied to former President Barack Obama when he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump has certainly met or surpassed the requirements. 
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