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Trump's 'incredibly vulgar' threat reveals secret tactic: Ex-State official
Trump’s Private Rage Is Public PolicyThe President as the ThreatThe source material is built around one fact with real institutional weight: Donald Trump is not a commentator yelling into the void. He is the president of the United States, and he used that office’s platform to threaten to “decimate and destroy all areas of Iran” after a report about an alleged assassination plot. That matters because power, not tone, is what turns language into danger.Richard Stengel’s alarm is justified, but the larger problem is not that Trump sounded “vulgar.” It is that a sitting president treated mass…
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