The following week, Trump posted on Truth Social: "Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags [ie, Iranians] today. They've been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!" The crudity, here, is the point. Sociolinguists say that the use of dysphemism violates social norms and taboos, and Trump is nothing if not the taboo-buster-in-chief...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/trump-using-dysphemism-language-against-iran
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