JoeMoma
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Just as I grew up in the era where, as Carlin noted, one would have been been slapped or beaten "into next week" were one to have used such language in politie company or in a serious setting, so it was for every person in that room.
You know as well as I do that nobody, most especially not a POTUS, utters a word that is considered vulgar and everyone within earshot does not bristile or somehow notice precisely what was said. Hell, a very reason for using such words is to emphasize in the most brusque way possible ones idea(s). Not only is one's idea stressed by using such language, so too is the fact that one used such language.
And, no, I don't have a problem with Trump's specific choice to say sh*t "whatever." I am taking exception with these people who are attempting to convince the American public that they don't recall what Trump said. Their not recalling that, how and why Trump used the language he did is no more so than is Man in the Moon." Their saying they don't recall is to condescend that the American people are stupid enough to believe they don't remember.
I respect when people don’t remember something, because often people remember things that never happened.
There're all sorts of things one can and does forget. That one's "CEO" in a meeting, roughly one akin to a board meeting or executive committee meeting, specifically calling someone, a place, or something as a "sh*thole," "sh*thead," etc. isn't among the things I or you would, in less than a week, forget. One might forget that someone muttered or uttered "sh*t" as an interjection/exclamation, but not that they explicitly called someone one of the terms I noted in the prior sentence.
And really, is there any doubt that the man who said "grab them by the p*ssy" would use the word "sh*thole?" Come on....
Oh, I believe Trump probably uses profanity often in his meetings. I also believe there were probably many “big f’ing deals” discussed in Obama’s presidential meetings. Believe me, cussing like sailors is commonplace in many boardrooms.
That being said, if ten different people attend @ meeting, there will be ten different recollections of what transpired during that meeting.
You OP is that no one did not recall that he said it, not that he didn’t say it.
That's true, and I don't for a minute believe that in the time between when he said it and yesterday anyone who was in that meeting forgot that he said it or didn't hear him say it.
You may very well be correct. As someone who was not in the room to be aware of all the conditions of the meeting, I don’t know.