Trump drops the f‑bomb live on TV breaking another presidential norm, Internet says ‘what a legend’

WASHINGTON, DC: Don­ald Trump may have just giv­en Amer­i­ca a mas­ter­class in pres­i­den­tial rage.

Don­ald Trump drops f‑bomb on live TV

Stand­ing before reporters out­side the White House, Don­ald Trump unleashed a tirade that had jaws drop­ping across news and social media.

They [Iran] vio­lat­ed it [the cease­fire], but Israelvio­lat­ed it, too,” he fumed. “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve nev­er seen before. The biggest load that we’ve seen.”

“I’m not hap­py with Israel, you know, when I say, ‘OK, now you have 12 hours,’ you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop every­thing you have on them, so I’m not hap­py with them,” he con­tin­ued. “I’m not hap­py with Iran either, but I’m real­ly unhap­py if Israel’s going out this morn­ing because of one rock­et that did­n’t land that was shot, per­haps by mis­take that did­n’t land. I’m not hap­py about that.”

He then con­clud­ed, “We basi­cal­ly have two coun­tries that have been fight­ing so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing.”

It’s worth not­ing that Trump has made head­lines for col­or­ful lan­guage before, but a casu­al f‑word dropped inten­tion­al­ly and on cam­era was a first. Amer­i­can pres­i­dents have cursed in pri­vate, sure. They’ve even been caught on hot mics. But this was clas­sic Trump.

This is a pres­i­dent that has sel­dom felt bound by the nor­mal con­straints of the office, and the use of pro­fan­i­ty is typ­i­cal­ly one of those con­straints,” Rus­sell Riley, a pres­i­den­tial his­to­ri­an at the Miller Cen­ter at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia, told NPR.

Pol­i­tics is some­times a dirty and ugly busi­ness, and so peo­ple use lan­guage there that might be bet­ter pre­served in the lock­er room — but in no instance do I recall a pres­i­dent open­ly using this term in a pub­lic forum,” Riley explained. “Espe­cial­ly this par­tic­u­lar curse word.”

Inter­net reacts as Don­ald Trump drops f‑bomb on live TV

Pre­dictably, Trump’s fans on social media couldn’t get enough.

“Just when you can’t love Trump enough, he drops an F bomb on live TV,” one gushed on X.

Trump say­ing the F word to the media is the fun­ni­est thing I’ve seen all week,” anoth­er post­ed.

One fan declared, “Trump said the f word live on air. What a leg­end. Mean­while, the usu­al loonies on the left are in tears about it.”

Anoth­er chimed in, “Trump drop­ping actu­al f bombs but refer­ring to nuclear as ‘the n word’ is 10/10.”

Riley, who co-chairs the Pres­i­den­tial Oral His­to­ry Pro­gram at the Miller Cen­ter, says curs­ing is com­mon behind closed doors. “I’ve heard that word come out of the mouths of for­mer White House staff plen­ty over the years,” he not­ed. “A num­ber of pres­i­dents have been known to use exple­tives behind closed doors.”

Sure, there have been hot-mic mishaps over the years. Joe Biden, when he was VP, told Barack Oba­ma that pass­ing the Afford­able Care Act was a “big f*****g deal.” That moment even­tu­al­ly became a meme, a fundrais­ing slo­gan, and a Biden trade­mark.

In 2022, then-Pres­i­dent Biden again slipped on a hot mic while sur­vey­ing hur­ri­cane dam­age, say­ing, “no one f***s with a Biden.” How­ev­er, his back was to the cam­eras.