President Donald Trump listens to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a cabinet meeting at the Cabinet Room of the White House October 21, 2019 in Washington, DC.
President Donald Trump listens to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a cabinet meeting at the Cabinet Room of the White House October 21, 2019 in Washington, DC.
  • Trump is famous for giving the people in his life nicknames.
  • He would call Mike Pompeo "My Mike." Pompeo's friends called him "Pomps." 
  • Pompeo wondered whether he'd eventually earn a new nickname in his new book "Never Give An Inch." 

Former President Donald Trump is famous for calling people by nicknames he comes up with, many of which stick or get under his opponents' skin. 

But he had a simple one for Mike Pompeo, his former CIA director and Secretary of State. He called him "My Mike."