I’ve avoided writing this, for fear of appearing hopelessly old-fashioned or being mocked as having a case of the “vapors.” But I can’t let it go without comment: President Trump was appallingly out of line in deliberately saying the word “bulls—” in his rambling East Room soliloquy on Thursday.
Yeah, yeah, I know — it’s a word any TV viewer can hear chanted loudly at almost every college basketball game played today. I know some daily newspapers now fully spell out words considered even more vulgar. And of course, I anticipate the ridiculous “what about” argument from Trump fans that I shouldn’t criticize the president’s language if I haven’t devoted a whole column to being verklempt about Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping up Trump’s speech. (Yeah, whatever.)
