Reporter Asks Karoline Leavitt About Trump’s Use Of Public Profanity

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked during Friday’s press briefing about President Donald Trump’s use of profanity while making remarks in public.

“On the president’s use of sign language in this room yesterday — and without seeking to cast myself as some kind of moral exemplar, because it’s rather late in the day to try — nonetheless, this was an event yesterday that began with a moment of silence for the victims of the air crash and the president’s own invocation of quote ‘a loving God,’ and then he uncorked that expletive to insult a former cabinet officer,” the report said.

“It was the same expletive that I saw him use in East Room in 2020 when he famously held up the Trump acquitted headline,” he continued.

The reporter asked if Leavitt could “shed any light for us on how the president perceives his use of public profanity, which is a practice that certainly sets him apart from all of his predecessors.”

“Does he regard it as an effective communications device?” the reporter asked. “Part of his appeal? Or is it something that he lapses into inadvertently, perhaps in times of frustration and later regrets?”

Leavitt responded: “I think one of the things that the American people love most about this president is that he often says what they are thinking, but sometimes lack the courage to say themselves.”

“And I think yesterday at this podium, you heard President Trump express great frustration, perhaps even anger, with the previous administration’s policies, many of which have led to the crises that our country is currently facing and that this president is focused on fixing,” she added.

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The question came in response to Trump slamming former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in response to the tragic accident that happened this week with the plane crash in Washington, D.C.

“The FAA website shows that the agency’s guidance on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23rd of ’22,” Trump said. “They wanted to make it even more so. And then I came in and I assumed maybe this is the reason the FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a real winner, guy’s a real winner.”

“You know how badly everything’s run since he’s run the Department of Transportation? He’s a disaster,” Trump continued. “He was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his city into the ground and he’s a disaster now. He’s just got a good line of bulls***.”