President Donald Trump’s frustrations with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro spilled into public view throughout a White House assembly with Ukraine’s chief Friday, which noticed Trump commerce military strikes in the Caribbean for an f-bomb in the Cabinet Room.
Pressed on reporting from The New York Times that Venezuela had approached administration officers with a proposal to supply preferential entry to its pure assets in alternate for decreasing the temperature between the two nations, Trump informed reporters Maduro has “offered everything.”
“You know why? Because he doesn’t want to fuck around with the United States,” he stated.
Blue language at the White House is uncommon, however it’s not the first time Trump has deployed that particular expletive to vent his annoyance over diplomatic challenges
In June, following the information Israel and Iran violated a brief ceasefire settlement brokered by the US, Trump informed reporters on the White House South Lawn, “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long, and so hard, that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
Trump has shrugged off many norms as president, and usually used coarse or politically incorrect language, each as president and as a presidential candidate — in 2018, he decried immigrants coming to the US from what he called “shithole countries,” behind closed doorways, later utilizing the similar curse to explain the District of Columbia during a 2024 campaign rally in Iowa.
But he’s hardly the first outstanding politician to deploy the f-word or different expletives from their off-color arsenal in public.
Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, raised eyebrows when, throughout a 2010 press convention with then-President Barack Obama, he was caught telling Obama passage of the Affordable Care Act was a “big fucking deal.”
Democrats later used the gaffe to raise money for the Democratic National Committee.
Later, as president, Biden was again caught on a hot mic calling a reporter in the White House press pool “a stupid son of a bitch,” for asking a query he didn’t like, although he later known as the reporter to apologize.
Obama too raised eyebrows when, throughout an off-the-record portion of a 2009 interview with CNBC, he known as rapper Kanye West “a jackass” after West rushed the MTV stage throughout Taylor Swift’s speech accepting the award for greatest feminine music video of the 12 months.
And in 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney told Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to “go fuck yourself” on the Senate ground throughout Senate image day after Leahy accused the vp of warfare profiteering.
Using profanity on the Senate ground is towards the chamber’s guidelines, however Cheney skirted a violation as a result of the Senate was not in session, a Senate official informed NCS at the time.