'If Your Children Are Watching, Be Warned': Here's How Networks Covered Trump's F-Word To Iran |
'If Your Children Are Watching, Be Warned': Here's How Networks Covered Trump's F-Word To Iran
Some hosts avoided reading the president's expletive use verbatim on TV while others freely dropped it, breaking from tradition to stress the president's unprecedented behaviour.
Donald Trump’s deranged call for Iran to “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” on Sunday led some major news networks to do something that’d be otherwise stunning — cursing on live TV — if it were not to accurately depict the president’s wild online behaviour.
Nearly an hour after Trump’s unhinged Easter morning post where he threatened to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure should the regime not open the Strait of Hormuz, CNN’s Jake Tapper emphasized the “extraordinary graphic” nature of Trump’s words.
“If........