Trump, no stranger to vulgarity, calls for Samantha Bee to be fired for her 'horrific language'

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published 1 June 2018

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee apologized Thursday for calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless c--t" while urging the president's daughter and senior adviser to change her father's approach to immigration policy. On Friday morning, however, President Trump said Bee should also lose her show:

While it is certainly understandable that he would be upset over such a crude insult directed at his daughter, Trump's offended sensibilities would likely garner broader sympathy if he did not have such a well-known habit of personal vulgarity. Indeed, the president has been accused of using the same word Bee employed to refer to "at least three women since the 1980s," The Daily Beast reports, "including a journalist, a former acting attorney general, and a woman who has accused Trump of groping her aboard an airplane."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.