Just because President Trump compared several nations to holes filled with excrement on Thursday, and even though CNN felt comfortable putting the word "shithole" up on screen, that doesn't mean CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer will sully himself by quoting the president of the United States on cable news.
At a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump had asked a bipartisan group of senators, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" — referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and nations in Africa. Blitzer wasn't alone — David Muir at ABC News said Trump had used "a profanity we won't repeat" — but several "media outlets on Thursday took the unusual step of allowing the word 'shithole' to be used in print and on air," including CNN's Jim Acosta, The New York Times reports. "Just f--ing say it, Wolf," The Daily Show said in the caption of its compilation of Blitzer studiously not saying it. Stay strong, Wolf.