With less than a week to go before Election Day in the crucial 2024 Presidential contest, the topic on many voters minds a deals with ther potty mouth of Donald John Trump and his oscenity-;aced rally in af Madison Square Garden this past weekend.
Four-letter words were flying everywhere,” reports The New YorkTimes. “One speaker flipped his middle finger at the opposition. Another made what was interpreted as an oral sex joke regarding Vice President Kamala Harris. Another suggested she was a prostitute. Still another discussed the supposed sexual habits of Latinos rather explicitly..”
The report by Peter Baker and Dylan Freedman continues:
All in all, former President Donald J. Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was a cornucopia of crudeness, punctuated by the kind of language that once would have been unthinkable for a gathering held to promote the candidacy of a would-be president of the United States. But among the many lines that Mr. Trump has obliterated in his time in politics is the invisible boundary between propriety and profanity.
Mr. Trump has always been more prone than any of his predecessors in the White House to publicly use what were once called dirty words. But in his third campaign for the presidency, his speeches have grown coarser and coarser. Altogether, according to a computer search, Mr. Trump has used words that would have once gotten a kid’s mouth washed out with soap at least 140 times in public this year. Counting tamer four-letter words like “damn” and “hell,” he has cursed in public at least 1,787 times in 2024.
What minimal self-restraint Mr. Trump once showed in his public discourse has evaporated. A recent New York Times analysis of his public comments this year showed that he uses such language 69 percent more often than he did when he first ran for president in 2016. He sometimes acknowledges that he knows he should not but quickly adds that he cannot help himself.
He often relates that Franklin Graham, the evangelical leader and son of the Rev. Billy Graham, has chided the former president about his language. “I wrote him back,” Mr. Trump said at a rally this month where he discussed the golfer Arnold Palmer’s penis size and invited the crowd to shout out a four-letter word to describe Ms. Harris. “I said, I’m going to try to do that, but actually, the stories won’t be as good. Because you can’t put the same emphasis on it. So tonight, I broke my rule.”
The crowd typically does not mind; quite the opposite. The thousands on hand at Madison Square Garden cheered and laughed at the F-bombs, S-bombs and other bombs thrown out by the various speakers and warm-up acts for Mr. Trump. It clearly is part of the testosterone-driven appeal: Real men curse. Mr. Trump is a real man. What they want is a real man for president.
In total, a computer search of 17 of the speakers at Madison Square Garden found epithets used at least 43 times. One of the most prolific was Sid Rosenberg, a conservative radio host. “What a sick son of a bitch,” he said of Hillary Clinton. “The whole fucking party, a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew haters and lowlives. Every one of them.”
Scott LoBaido, an artist, flipped the bird to the Democrats and called Mr. Trump “the greatest fucking president in the world.”
Tony Hinchcliffe, the comic who made insulting jokes about Latino sexual practices, likewise disparaged Jews and Palestinians and called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage,” the only comment the Trump campaign later disavowed.
Mr. Trump himself was somewhat more reticent at Madison Square Garden, deploying an “ass,” a couple of “damns,” eight “hells” and a “shit.” But at other recent rallies, he has called Ms. Harris “a shit vice president” and used the same word at a Catholic charity dinner in front of New York’s cardinal.
At one appearance in February before the Conservative Political Action Conference, Mr. Trump spiced his speech with no fewer than 44 epithets. “I got indicted four times by this gang of thugs for nothing, or as I say respectfully to the people from foreign countries, for bullshit,” he said at one point.
Trump, by his very nature, is an obscenity, a crude, lewd and rowdy trouble maker who uses his profanity to whip his hardcore followers into a frenzy that lacks sustenance, manners or morality. He curses at religious gather-rings, using the crudest language possible against his enemies and substitutes hubris for humility.
The Times says this about the other side:
By comparison, Ms. Harris, 60, is practically prim in public. The computer search found only 10 instances of her using a swearword in public this year, most of them “damn” or “hell.” At one forum in May, she did suggest that young people who run into obstacles “need to kick that fucking door down.”
President Biden is a little freer with his tongue, using such language 450 times, but all but two of them were “damn” and “hell.” Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ms. Harris’s running mate, mocked Elon Musk last week for “skipping like a dipshit” onstage while promoting Mr. Trump.
Neither Mr. Biden nor Ms. Harris is all that reticent to swear behind the scenes. Asked last month what her favorite curse word was, Ms. Harris laughed and said she could not say but “it starts with an M and ends with ‘uh.’” In his new book, “War,” Bob Woodward quotes Ms. Harris telling an associate that Mr. Biden is comfortable with her “because he knows that I’m the only person around who knows how to properly pronounce the word ‘motherfucker.’”
But both she and Mr. Biden generally follow the old rules that such language is inappropriate in public from the mouth of the president or vice president, who are in theory supposed to be role models for the next generation. Presidents who strayed were usually called on the carpet and often apologized.
President Harry S. Truman pushed the boundaries when a supporter told him to “give ’em hell, Harry” and he replied: “I don’t give them hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s hell.” When he talked about “manure” at a horticulture show, a scandalized friend of his wife, Bess, asked if she could get him to use a less salacious word. “Heavens, no,” Mrs. Truman said. “It took me 25 years to get him to say ‘manure.’”
Many Trumpets claim the disgraced and convicted felon is “more honest” in his use of language but one could, and should, recognize that honesty is not a term that should be used with his actions and language.
“it is an unending obscenity and blight upon the nation that this grotesque buffoon is a candidate for president,” New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch posts on “X.” Trump is a walking and talking obscenity, as are his hardcore followers.
Let’s silence this obscenity on Nov. 5th with a vote for Harris and throw him out with the trash.
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