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What do you do when the president drops an f-bomb?

Poynter · Tom Jones · last updated

“F-bomb” was trending on X on Tuesday. Not the word that “f-bomb” stands for, but the actual phrase: the letter f dash bomb.

Of course, it was trending because someone said the actual word that the f-bomb stands for. That someone? The president of the United States. On live television. In what could be considered an official statement.

Stopping on the White House lawn to briefly speak to reporters on Tuesday morning, Trump aired his frustrations over the fact that Israel and Iran appeared to be violating the ceasefire that Trump helped put in place, a ceasefire that Trump celebrated in a social media post Monday night.

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