Our new book is The Comeback: The 2024 Elections and American Politics.
"The tone with which he dropped it reveals that he really might have thought he had something there. He thought he had his Nobel Prize and it's running into the reality of a centuries-old conflict."@Timodc and @samstein talk Trump's f-bomb: pic.twitter.com/9j46teL2Qh
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) June 24, 2025
Increased use of foul language is a symptom of dementia.
In October, Peter Baker and Dylan Freedman reported at NYT:
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.
