It has been noted New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman has expressed alarm that children are exposed to former President Donald Trump cursing and nasty signs at rallies that are “really vulgar” toward President Joe Biden via Mediaite.
President Biden recently spoke out regarding the vulgarity that kids are exposed to at Trump rallies, telling the crowd in Philadelphia “Did you ever think you’d hear people talk the way they do? Look, it demeans who we are.”
On this week’s edition of CNN’s King Charles, co-hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley asked Haberman for her insights on Trump, beginning with his comments at a campaign rally Tuesday.
Later in the interview, Haberman told the hosts she finds the escalation of hate at Trump rallies “striking”:
KING: So, I happen to believe that, we, as Americans have more in common than not. And I think most people really do want to do the good thing — do the right thing. And I think most of us really are in the middle as a country.
And we all want the same things for each other — health happiness, good — good jobs. You want, you know, your kids to do better than you did or you want people to be mentally healthy and all of that seems to be In jeopardy to me when we look at what’s happening in this country.
HABERMAN: I think you just raised something that I think is really important and really striking about these Trump rallies that is different than what we saw eight years ago.
KING: I don’t like the us versus them.
HABERMAN: That is — that is —
BARKLEY: That’s how you win elections, though.
HABERMAN: But it — in a very —
KING: We can have an us versus them and we can disagree, but we don’t have to hate each other with the way that I see it happening in this country.
BARKLEY: A hundred percent. And that’s what bothers me.
HABERMAN: Yeah, there’s two things I’d say on that I had a line in the book that I wrote about him when he was stoking all of this anger against the teenagers arrested in the Central Park jogger case, who were exonerated and their confessions coerced. One of whom is now a City Council member that it Trump saw hate as a civic good. That was basically his ethos.
And I think you have seen that carry through now for years. But you have at these rallies where he is cursing more often. He is saying as I said —
KING: And applauded for it.
HABERMAN: And applauded for it. A lot of kids — there’s a lot of kids at these rallies. The signs have gotten coarser. They’re really — they’re really, really vulgar about President Biden and that is really a change.
