One of the articles in the Globe and Mail today compares the relationship between presidents and prime ministers. It had a quote from Lyndon Johnson that was vulgar to me - Lyndon Johnson yelling at Lester Pearson to not come into his house and piss on his rug when Pearson suggested the bombing of Vietnam should be paused. That was an example of a difficult relationship.
We have a difficult relationship now. And it seems that quoting Trump or showing a video clip often comes with vulgar language. Is this the new normal in the U.S in the Trump second term? I guess the answer is yes. Trump's first term brought many articles on his vulgar language. Most of the articles point to Lyndon Johnson as the most vulgar president in U.S. history.
Quoted expressions that demonstrated how vulgar he was are in the Nation Post article HERE. Its main theme was Trump's vulgarity in 2018.
Once I started to look, for Johnson's vulgar expressions, it is clear that they are not collected in one place - they are scattered. No one seems to want to gather them together for history.
I don't remember any of these expressions when I was young. I would remember them as they are distinctively shocking. Why didn't our newspapers have any of these in print? Maybe newspapers thought they were protecting us. Maybe they were protecting Lyndon Johnson. Maybe protecting themselves from lawsuits.
There is even "the story where Lyndon B. Johnson showed "jumbo" to a ..." group of journalists. That was in response to questions about Vietnam.
Here's a "what if" scenario: can history repeat itself on something like this?
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