How did we get to the point where a US president can say and do things that put American culture and political system at risk, and it’s just shrugged off as if it were normal?
In social media posts and unscripted press comments, Donald Trump uses language that would have been unimaginable coming from a president in any other period of American history. In just the past few months, Mr Trump was photographed making an obscene gesture and mouthing a vulgarity at a demonstrator; demeaned a popular TV personality who had just been murdered; called a Somali-American member of Congress “garbage”, adding that all Somalis were garbage; called the governor of Minnesota “retarded”, an especially hurtful slur as that governor has a son with a disability; and insulted female reporters who asked him challenging questions, calling them “ugly”, “obnoxious” and “stupid”.
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