Opinion | Melissa Mohr: Why President Trump's profanity helps him politically — and hurts the rest of us. - NBCNewsTHINK
What are the rules of decorum for a president’s Twitter feed, though? We have previously set high standards for the public speech of presidents, whatever they have gotten up to in private. When linguists want to find examples of formal American speech, they turn to White House press briefings . These sessions were thought to feature Americans’ most elevated diction, our most correct grammar.
, usually a form of f---. Bulls--- is totally appropriate — mild, really — when considered in the general context of other tweets. On some level he seems to want to preserve the high linguistic standards of the presidency, just as when he couldn’t bring himself to saywith the Finnish president, making do with insulting House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff by scoffing, “He couldn’t carry his ‘blank’ strap,” referring to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Yet Trump also wants to keep participating in the coarse idiom of Twitter, which helped him win the 2016 election and shores up support among his base every day.
Decorum, however, doesn’t just stipulate what types of language are appropriate for which types of situations: It is actually a fundamental part of a functioning government. We are discovering every day that what we took for granted as firm procedural rules or bedrock legal principles are actually just the gossamer guidance of decorum.
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