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Robert Tait in Washington

Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open

Extreme close-up of Donald Trump's face with his mouth open, squinting in sunlight
Trump at the White House last year. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

With a lifetime of political memories stretching back to John F Kennedy’s assassination and the Black civil rights struggles of the 1960s, Cheryl Johnson had one complaint above all else about today’s politicians: the swearing.

“All this cursing in politics, we never heard that before,” said Johnson, a retired social worker living in the Pittsburgh area. “Words are very powerful, and the past 45 presidents of this country, have not used such vile language.

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