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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gary Nunn

Trump dropped an F-bomb this week – and for a moment he seemed human

Donald Trump waves hand at reporters' microphones on the South Lawn of the White House
Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One, 24 June 2025. Photograph: Francis Chung/EPA

I did not get out of bed this morning expecting to praise the public use of an expletive, but such is 2025. If any president was going to break this presidential norm, as NPR put it, it was always going to be Donald Trump.

“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” the president told a group of reporters this week. “Do you understand that?” he asked, before storming off.

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