President Donald Trump vowed this live on air during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
Trump was answering questions from reporters at Friday's meeting and was asked about the conflict with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro when he dropped the expletive.
“He has offered everything,” Trump said, referring to Maduro. “You know why? Because he doesn't want to mess with the United States.”
After using the swear word, Trump quickly ended the press conference.
Broadcasters apologized to viewers for the president's language.
President Donald Trump vowed this live on air during a high-stakes meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. (AP)
In June, Trump lashed out with the same language after a ceasefire deal between Israel and Iran that he had previously announced appeared to fail.
“We basically have two countries that have fought so long and so hard that they don't know what they are doing,” a frustrated Trump told reporters at the White House as he left for a NATO summit in the Netherlands.
According to Trump's analysis, Trump's language became more forceful during his third presidential campaign The New York Times. According to the newspaper, Trump swore in public more than 1,700 times in 2024.
In 2016, Trump told his supporters, “We're getting companies that used to be in New Hampshire and now they're in Mexico. Come back to New Hampshire, and you can tell them to go fuck themselves.”
After using the swear word, Trump quickly ended the press conference and broadcasters apologized to viewers for the president's language (REUTERS)
Friday's outburst was prompted by questions about what else Venezuela's Maduro “could do” to ease tensions with the US after the Trump administration escalated the military campaign against the leader's regime this week.
Trump claimed on Wednesday that he was “authorizing” CIA operations on Venezuelan soil because Venezuela was “emptying their prisons in the United States of America” and flooding the country with drugs.
Last month, the administration declared that the U.S. is formally engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels that the president has called “unlawful combatants,” according to a confidential notice to members of Congress.
The notice appears to invoke extraordinary wartime powers to justify a series of rocket attacks on boats off the coast of Venezuela and in the Caribbean that have killed at least 27 people in recent weeks.
