Newsmax Correspondent Grills Karoline Leavitt About Trump’s Profanity Following Moment of Silence at Air Crash Briefing

Newsmax correspondent James Rosen pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday about President Donald Trump’s profanity after the D.C. airplane crash.

On Thursday afternoon, Trump joined the press briefing room where he asked for a moment of silence to honor the victims of the Washington, D.C. collision. However, Trump then went on a profanity-laced rant bashing former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for DEI hiring.

Rosen asked Leavitt whether Trump uses profanity because he is frustrated or because he views it as “an effective communications device.”

ROSEN: Just on the President’s use of 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. It was the same expletive that I saw him use in the East Room in 2020 when he famously held up the Trump acquitted headline. My question is, if you 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 regarded as an effective communications device part of his appeal? Or is it something that he lapses into inadvertently, perhaps in times of frustration and later regret?

LEAVITT: 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 save 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.

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