Trump becomes first US president to drop the F-bomb on live TV

Donald Trump made history on Tuesday, June 24 as the first U.S. president to intentionally use the F-word on live television, telling reporters that Israel and Iran “have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.”
 

His remarks came in response to reports that Iran violated a newly announced ceasefire agreement just hours after it was brokered.


While Trump is the first to publicly drop the F-bomb during a live press event, he’s far from the first American president to use profanity — and has a well-documented history of controversial language.

Trump joins a long line of presidents caught cursing including his immediate predecessor.

In January 2022, President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic calling Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a b****” after the journalist asked whether inflation could become a political liability. Doocy later said Biden called to apologize.

And as vice president in 2010, Biden whispered into President Obama’s ear during the Affordable Care Act signing ceremony: “This is a big f***ing deal.”

President Barack Obama himself was heard calling Kanye West a “jacka**” in 2009 after the rapper infamously interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards. Obama also called Mitt Romney a “bulls***er” in a 2012 Rolling Stone interview.

“I probably curse more than I should,” Obama later admitted, “especially after I became president.”

Though unfiltered language might seem like a modern trend, presidential cursing goes back generations. According to historians, even Abraham Lincoln was known to use salty language in private.

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