News outlets don’t usually publish the f-word. Then came Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire rant.
Mainstream outlets generally don’t include profanity in their news reports. But when President Donald Trump condemned Israel and Iran for breaking their ceasefire Tuesday, some outlets broke from tradition.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing,” Trump told a group of reporters Tuesday morning just outside the White House. He was railing against Israel and Iran for launching attacks against each other just hours after he had announced a ceasefire agreement.
Some broadcasters, like CNN, aired Trump’s full remarks. Others, like ABC 7 in Chicago, censored his use of the f-word, either bleeping it out or removing it entirely. Several split the difference, airing the word on certain news shows but not others.