Potty mouth president: 3 takeaways on Trump's 'bloodbath' rhetoric

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : At a rally in Georgia, for example, Trump said everything Biden touches "turns to sh--.
49% : Metaphor or nah, Trump uses this sort of language -- a lot
47% : Trump said.
41% : "Your victory will be our ultimate vindication, your liberty will be our ultimate reward and the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge," Trump said during this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February.
39% : Trump raised the possibility of "bedlam" overtaking the country in the face of legal challenges to his candidacy; "potential death (and) destruction" when the Manhattan district attorney was pursuing the ongoing hush-money case; and sharing images of him carrying a baseball bat near Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's head in a since-deleted Truth Social post.When speak about Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who's prosecuting the Georgia election fraud case against Trump, the former president mocked her name during the Ohio rally, for instance.
37% : But it is something that alarms detractors and frightens experts who described it as an authoritarian-leaning campaign, especially in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol led by Trump supporters.
37% : Yet that use of language and imagery is something Trump has intensified in his increasingly personal grudge rematch against Biden this year.
34% : This is what authoritarian thugs and terrorists do," Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University and author of "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present" said in March 29 post on X.She was referring to Trump sharing a video this past week of a pickup truck that had a decal with President Joe Biden hogtied.
34% : As USA Today reporter Sudiksha Kochi noted, Trump has helped usher a new era of foul-mouthed elected officials and candidates who would have made previous generations blush.
29% : "We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected," Trump said.
28% : "The Jan. 6 anxietyPart of the reason Democrats, anti-Trump Republicans and political observers pounce on every word out of Trump's mouth is a broader anxiety about the state of American democracy.
27% : Trump employed that signature tactic during his infamous June 2015 announcement speech when he described some Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, which he later admitted was planned.
27% : As far back as 2016, Trump alluded to "riots" by supporters if he didn't win the Republican nomination.
24% : In March alone, Trump raised eyebrows when he said some undocumented migrants coming to the U.S. were "not people."
20% : Republican Donald Trump has been open about deliberately using inflammatory words to attract attention in the 2024 presidential race.
9% : "Biden has joined in using expletives too, but behind the scenes according to a February report in Politico which said the president called Trump a "sick f---.

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