
President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office With a lifetime of political memories stretching back to John F Kennedy’s assassination and the Black civil rights struggles of the 1960s, Cheryl Johnson had one complaint above all else about today’s politicians: the swearing. “All this cursing in politics, we never heard that before,” said Johnson, a retired social worker living in the Pittsburgh area.
“Words are very powerful, and the past 45 presidents of this country, have not used such vile language.
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