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Last week, President Donald Trump said that newly sworn-in Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) “dishonored” herself when she dropped an eff-bomb about him at an event. On Sunday, CNN’s Jake Tapper challenged new interim White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on whether Trump really has any room to talk when it comes to coarseness.

“The president said her remark, saying that it was time to impeach the mf’er, was quote ‘disgraceful’, President Trump obviously is not known as a delicate flower with his language he uses, he’s sworn publicly quite a bit,” said Tapper. “Take a listen to some of it.”

He then played a montage of clips of President Trump cursing in public events, including the eff bomb, and getting cheers from his crowds. Tapper asked Mulvaney, “does President Trump think that he has played any role in the coarsening of our national discourse?”

“No, no, I think…” began Mulvaney.

“He doesn’t?” Tapper asked somewhat incredulously.

“I think people can be coarse, as clearly this member of Congress is,” Mulvaney continued. “By the way, I was very glad to see some of my former Democrat colleagues distance themselves from that type of language.”

“The president does use coarse language in private a lot with us,” he said. Tapper interrupted to point out that those clips of Trump cursing

using the same word and style as Tlaib were, like hers, in front of a crowd. “Those were public,” he said.

“Many people–I recogni–many people do,” Mulvaney said, without actually addressing the point that contrary to his own characterization the remarks were not private, but public, and were exactly like what Tlaib said, which Trump called “disgraceful” and that he said “dishonored her family.”

“But no, I don’t think anybody blames the president for the coarsening of the language of the —” he continued.

“You don’t think anybody in the country blames the president?” Tapper asked chuckling at the statement.

“Well, you probably do,” said Mulvaney to Tapper, who is in the country. “But I think there’s more important things than to who is coarsening the language.”

Watch the clip above, courtesy of CNN.

[Featured image via screengrab]

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