Yes, this is frivolous, so feel free to scold. Anyway: I know the middle names of my immediate family members, a few Great Writers (e.g., Henry WADSWORTH Longfellow) - and almost all of the US presidents of my lifetime, and several before my lifetime. I know the middle names of only two or three Canadian Prime Ministers, even though I'm Canadian. There seems to be a sense in the American media that uttering the middle name of a president - or even a would-be president, such as Hilary RODHAM Clinton - lends a kind of gravitas to the personage. Occasionally this seeps over the northern border: this morning on the CBC, a reporter, in delivering the big, serious news that the border is being (almost) closed, said that this had just been announced in a Tweet from "President Donald J. Trump" - um ... as opposed to President Donald Q. Trump? - we don't want any confusion ....

Reminds me of exasperated mothers calling out the full names of their recalcitrant children, when I was a kid: "Robert Mortimer Aloysius Jones - you get in this house right now!" (Was/is that a universal thing?).

Anyone else amused or bemused by this?