The
recent tirade filled with expletives by President Trump’s henchman, Anthony
Scaramucci, against other Trump-appointed operatives, showed not only a White
House in disarray but a remarkable low-point in public discourse.
When
White House Communications Director Scaramucci mouthed off to a reporter during
a New Yorker interview, he
used incredibly disrespectful language to describe Chief of Staff Rance Priebis,
labeling him a “fucking schizophrenic, a paranoiac” and said of presidential advisor Steve Barron, “I’m not trying to suck my own cock.”
Ladies
and gentlemen, what’s going on here?
Instead of leadership exuding from the top, we have the opposite. We have a bombastic, egotistical, maniacal,
power-hungry, intellectually-absent, morally-bankrupt president endorsing such
tactics and making it open season on respectful dialogue.
Such
tactics are spreading and infiltrating other areas of our society. We hear coarse language everywhere, from our
television sets and movie theaters to our musical lyrics and tweets from celebrities. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a prude with virgin ears. There is a time and place for colorful
language. But it’s never okay for high-ranking public servants to speak that
way, so freely and out in the open, especially with the media. These comments are then rebroadcast at 10 year
olds who need to ask parents why that man said someone is a fucking idiot.
Book
publishing is no better. It’s chosen to
take the low road when it comes to using curse words and blue language on its
covers.
A
hot book right now is The Subtle Art of
Not Giving a Fuck. Another one is
called Fuck Feelings. Then you have Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Bill the Bastard, Fucking Martin, Good
Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes
Say Fuck, Fucking Apostrophes, Fuck Off!, I Love to Fucking Color, The Way of Fuck It, An Encyclopedia of
Assholes, Cunt Coloring Book, Car is the Fuck Up…well, you get the point.
This
is not a recent phenomenon for book publishing, but it’s part of an ugly
trend. A few years ago, a children’s
parody for adults, Go the Fuck to Sleep,
was a hit sensation. Over a decade ago you
had these titles screaming at us: Fuck the Navy; Fuck, Yes!; the F-Word;
English as a Second Fucking Language; They
Fuck You Up; The Greatest Fucking Moment in Sports; The Fuck-Up; and other
lovely titles.
The
F-word is in the dictionary and is used often by most people, so it can’t be
ignored, demonized, or eliminated but do we have to listen to the White House
rant insanely with such language? It’s
disrespectful to the F-word itself.
The
bigger issue here, it would seem, is why is the White House disgracefully
dysfunctional and needing the media to settle its in-house fights? Why must the nation be soiled by their
filthy, debasing arguments just so a man-baby can get what he wants? We have an infant bully in the pulpit and he
is bringing down the nation one tweet, press release, and interview at a time. He’ll
be impeached without passing any legislation but he’ll leave a stench that will
never be cleansed.
Trump
may leave his legacy with the thing he’s most proud of – his name. Whereas Trump used to mean real estate,
casino, celebrity television or even boastful and wealthy, the name will take
on the flavor of a verb. To Trump will
now mean to belittle, to curse, to lie, to humiliate. His name is now synonymous with the undershirt
we call a “wife-beater.” His image is one of a hot-air balloon, inflated by
bluster, ego, and greed.
His
name is also a substitute for the F-word and he’s saying to all of us, Trump
You!
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