In his address to the top U.S. military officials in Virginia earlier this week, War Secretary Pete Hegseth let it be known that the Trump administration is “done with that shit.”
He was referring to the so-called “woke culture” that he said had infiltrated the military.
That a curse word would be used so intentionally and publicly by such a senior political figure is something that would have seemed out of place not too long ago.
But such colourful language among U.S. politicians, particularly during the Trump administrations, seems more commonplace.
Trump himself, who may have toned down his public cursing since entering the presidential race a decade ago, still can let some expletives fly. Indeed, he made political history in June when he became the first president to publicly drop an F-bomb when expressing frustration over the Israel/Iran conflict.
Both countries “have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing,” Trump told reporters.