President Donald Trump accused the Democratic Party of “Wasting everyone’s time and energy” on ... well, we’ll skip the word he used.
Let’s just say it’s a synonym for “gibberish” and references a male cow. Or, as CNBC described it, Trump use a “barnyard epithet” to describe the ongoing impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives.
What happened: Trump’s comments came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, hosted a press conference discussing ongoing congressional issues and the impeachment probe.
More comments: Trump slammed the inquiry in two follow-up tweets, too.
“Nancy Pelosi just said that she is interested in lowering prescription drug prices and working on the desperately needed USMCA. She is incapable of working on either. It is just camouflage for trying to win an election through impeachment. The Do Nothing Democrats are stuck in mud!”
“Adam Schiff should only be so lucky to have the brains, honor and strength of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. For a lowlife like Schiff, who completely fabricated my words and read them to Congress as though they were said by me, to demean a First in Class at West Point, is SAD!”
Trump previously used the same word — the one including excrement and male cows — to describe statements made about special counsel Robert Mueller and the Mueller report, per CNBC.
Pelosi and the House of Representatives issued an impeachment inquiry into Trump last week after reports surfaced that the president pressured Ukraine in investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, according to Politico. Biden is one of President Trump’s top political rivals and is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2020 election.
Swears: Trump has a history of using profanity. In fact, as The New York Times’ Peter Baker reports, Trump as increasingly added profanity to his remarks.
- “His is the profanity presidency, full of four-letter denunciations of his enemies and earthy dismissals of allegations lodged against him,” Baker wrote. “At rallies and in interviews, on Twitter and in formal speeches, he relishes the bad-boy language of a shock jock, just one more way of gleefully provoking the political establishment bothered by his norm-shattering ways.”
Melissa Mohr, the author of the book “A Brief History of Swearing,” told The New York Times that swearing fits Trump’s agendas.
- “I’d say swearing is part of his appeal,” she said. “It helps create the impression that he is saying what he thinks, ‘telling it like it is.’ We tend to believe people when they swear, because we interpret these words as a sign of strong emotions. In his case, the emotion is often powerful anger, which his supporters seem to love.”
Comparison: Per Time Magazine, Trump has used profanity more often than other presidents, especially during public speeches.
“Past presidents have been known to use indecorous language in private talks with their advisers or unguarded moments that were caught on tape, but none have made such dramatic and repeated use of curse words in public events.”