Rino Charles Kirk

"RINO" redirects here. For other uses, see Rino.
The word "RINO" inside a circle, with a red slash indicating negation
Celeste Greig's 1993 "No RINOs" button design
"RINO Hunter" shirts advertised for sale at the 2007 Iowa Straw Poll
"No More RINOs!" sign at a 2010 Tea Party movement protest in Minnesota

In US politics, "Republican in name only" is a pejorative used to describe politicians of the Republican Party deemed insufficiently loyal to the party, or misaligned with the party's ideology. Similar terms have been used since the early 1900s. The acronym RINO became popular in the 1990s, and both the acronym and the full spelling have become commonly used by sitting president Donald Trump and his supporters to refer to his critics within the Republican Party.