Politicians do curse - and that's a fact.
In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has warned US President Barack Obama not to question him about extrajudicial killings, or “son of a bitch, I will swear at you” when they come face to face at their scheduled meeting in the ASEAN summit forum in Laos.
Obama's aides later cancelled the talks and Duterte has since issued a statement that he "regrets" such remark.
Not quite the language you'd expect from a politician, but Duterte was not the first statesman to go on a wild cussing spree. In fact, several of the US presidents did, according to international news agency, CNN.
Here's a list of US politicians who seemed to have enjoyed some political profanities:
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In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has warned US President Barack Obama not to question him about extrajudicial killings, or “son of a bitch, I will swear at you” when they come face to face at their scheduled meeting in the ASEAN summit forum in Laos.
Obama's aides later cancelled the talks and Duterte has since issued a statement that he "regrets" such remark.
Not quite the language you'd expect from a politician, but Duterte was not the first statesman to go on a wild cussing spree. In fact, several of the US presidents did, according to international news agency, CNN.
Here's a list of US politicians who seemed to have enjoyed some political profanities:
- 1 President Barack Obama. In 2010, as the BP oil spill resulted in severe environmental, health and economic consequences, Obama said in an NBC TV show interview, "I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose a** to kick."
- 2 President Richard Nixon. In an April 1972 recording, Nixon who was discussing National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger's meeting with Ivy League college presidents concerning Vietnam, told Kissinger: "The Ivy League presidents? Oh, I won't let those sons of bitches ever in this White House again. Never. Never. None of them. They're finished. The Ivy League schools are finished."
- 3 President Harry S. Truman. In the 1960s, Truman reportedly fired Gen. Douglas MacArhur "because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president." Truman explained, "I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail."
- 4 President Lyndon B. Johnson. During a discussion about Cyprus in 1965 with Greek Ambassador Alexandros Matsas, "f*** your parliament and your constitution." He continued: "America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fellows continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good."
- 5 Presidential candidate Donald Trump. In 2011, the business-mogul-turned-presidential candidate had his share of profanity during a Las Vegas speech when he said, "They (OPEC) want to go in and raise the price of oil because we have nobody in Washington that sits back and says you're not going to raise that f***ing price, you understand me?" he said. And when it came to Iraq, Trump said, "We build a school, we build a road. They blow up the road. They blow up the school. We build another school, we build another road, they blow them up. We build again, in the meantime we can't get a f***ing school built in Brooklyn." (Yup, we know... Trump's not the president yet, but we kinda thought to include him anyway :D )
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