Trump is a motherf***er, says former prime minister of Canada
Kim Campbell's remarks follow similar assertion by newly elected Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib
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Kim Campbell, the former prime minister of Canada has described Donald Trump as a “motherf****er”, apparently in support of a Democrat congresswoman who recently used the same expression to describe the divisive US president.
Ms Campbell wrote on Twitter: “He really IS a motherf****er,” in relation to Mr Trump’s government shutdown amid a battle with Democrats over funding for a wall on the border with Mexico.
Her pronouncement came days after Rashida Tlaib, the new representative of Michigan’s 13th district, said hours after being sworn into Congress: “We’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf***er.”
Mr Trump called Ms Tlaib’s remark “disgraceful”, during a press conference, and said she “dishonoured her family using language like that.”
But Ms Tlaib has stood my her comments and some Democrats have supported her. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives, said she “wouldn’t use that language” but added she is “not in the censorship business.”
Actor Samuel L Jackson – perhaps the world’s most famous user of that particular profanity, and a harsh critic of Mr Trump – lent his support to Ms Tlaib, writing on Twitter: “I just wanna wholeheartedly endorse your use of & clarity of purpose when declaring your Motherf***ing goal last week. Calling that Muthaf***ah a Motherf**er is not an issue, calling that Muthaff**ah President Is!!! #motherfu**eristoogoodtowasteonthatcankersore.”
Ms Campbell, Canada’s first female prime minister, has been a vocal critic of Mr Trump, describing him as a “sexual predator” to CBC News, following the Access Hollywood tape in which Mr Trump was heard boasting he would grab women “by the pussy”.
Canadian politician Dean Del Mastro, who served as former prime minister Stephen Harper’s parliamentary secretary and as an MP, said Ms Campbell’s tweet was “simply unacceptable.”
Ms Campbell’s tweet describing Mr Trump as a “motherf***er” has since been deleted, though screengrabs captured it before it was taken down.
Mr Trump has himself used the term publicly. In 2011, addressing a crowd in Las Vegas and explaining why America should introduce particular taxes on Chinese goods, he said: “I could say, ‘Listen, you motherf***ers, we’re gonna tax you 25 per cent.’
And in January last year, Mr Trump made headlines around the world after describing nations in Africa as “s***hole countries”.
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The term “motherf***er” came into use in the US in the late 19th century, with the Oxford English Dictionary’s first citation of the profanity coming from court documents in an 1889 Texas murder case, in which the victim had apparently called his assailant a “God damned mother-f--king, bastardly son-of-a-bitch”, before he was killed.
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