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The White House has defended Donald Trump’s response to a scammer who called him a “pedophile protector” during a visit to a Ford factory. A person was heard shouting something containing these two words at the US president during his visit to an auto factory in Michigan on Tuesday, January 13.
Mr TrumpHe was revealed to have responded in a video published by TMZ He mouthed “Fuck you” The person then raises his middle finger. White House spokesman Steven Cheung said today: “A lunatic was screaming profanities wildly in a full-on rage, and the President gave an appropriate and clear response.”
The United Automotive Workers (UAW) union told CBS News that the fraudster, whom US media calls TJ Sabula, has been suspended. ford.
“We believe in free speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our members in protecting their voices at work,” the UAW said in a statement.
Since the abusive outburst, two GoFundMe pages have raised more than $700,000 (£521,000) for Mr Sabula from 30,000 donors.
Mr. Sabula reportedly identified himself as the person who yelled at the president and told the Washington Post that he did not regret what he said.
The publication reported that Mr. Sabula yelled at the president over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, only some of which were made public despite a law ordering the U.S. Justice Department to release them in full.
This wasn’t the first time Mr. Trump swore while the cameras were rolling.
Mr Trump dropped the F-bomb in June last year when he expressed disappointment at the apparent violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
“You basically have two countries that have been at war for so long and so hard that they don’t know what they’re doing,” he told reporters at the White House.
The Republican president isn’t the only US leader caught swearing.
When Joe Biden was Vice President, he told then-President Barack Obama that the passage of the Affordable Care Act was “a big deal.”
This statement was made next to a microphone that was still open. He swore once again in 2022, saying “Nobody fucks with Biden.”
