There is little Donald Trump won’t say — at least if p*ssygate is anything to go by.

Just yesterday, he tweeted the word “BULLS**T” with no asterisks — something that
even we at this humble Australian news site refrain from.
But in a recent press conference, the President of the United States finally revealed that
one word crosses the line for him: jockstrap.
You know, those everyday undergarments with the cutout? Any professional cyclist, NRL
player or Inner Sydney Gay traipsing home from Rezerection at sunrise can tell you all
about them.
But alas, the humble jockstrap is somehow too racy an object for the President to name in
full.
During a press conference delivered yesterday alongside Finnish President Saul Neonist,
Mr Trump defended his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff accused him of not complying with congressional
subpoenas in the Ukraine scandal.

President Trump on Schiff and Pompeo: "There's an expression. He couldn't carry his blank strap.
I won't say it."

"He couldn't carry his blank strap. Do you understand that?"

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Upon being told the whistle-blower's complaint was consistent with the rough memo of
his July 25 phone call, the President launched into the following rant: “No, no he didn’t
say that, you have to take a look, he did not say that. If you look at what he said he found
everything to be very normal. He’s a good man … He found it to be very normal.
“I saw Schiff trying to go — we all call him ‘Shifty Schiff’, we don’t call him Shifty
Schiff for nothing — he’s a shifty, dishonest guy who by the way was critical of one of
the greatest secretaries of state, graduated number one in his class at West Point,
graduated one of the top in his class at Harvard Law School, the most honourable person,
Mike Pompeo, and this guy was negative on Mike Pompeo.”
And then: “You know, there’s an expression: He couldn’t carry his blank strap. I won’t
say it, because they’ll say it was so terrible to say. But that guy couldn’t carry
his blank strap. You understand that? So you’re dealing with bad people.”
Yes, he literally said the word “blank” both times.
Cue this look of existential dread on the President of Finland’s face:

‘Why am I here? 'source: Twitter

‘Why did I get into this awful, awful business?’Source:Twitter

‘WHY DID I NOT BECOME A PROFESSIONAL CYCLIST WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE?’Source:Twitter

Political leanings aside, this is … weird, right? Jockstrap is not in itself a vulgar word.
Like, you can literally find it on Target’s website in the dowdy men’s underwear section.
And just for argument’s sake, even if it was up there with swear words like sh*t or b*tch,
the President has already shown he has no qualms with using those words in CAPITAL
LETTERS:

The Do Nothing Democrats should be focused on building up our Country, not wasting everyone’s
time and energy on BULLSHIT, which is what they have been doing ever since I got
overwhelmingly elected in 2016, 223-306. Get a better candidate this time, you’ll need it!

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The direct omission, jock,is also a common everyday word. Believed to have emerged in
the early 1960s as a way to describe “an athletic man”, the word is now commonly used
as a lighthearted stereotype for sporty frat boys.
According to The Atlantic, there is a more coarse definition. Jonathon Green, the author
of Green’s Dictionary of Slang, contends that jock is an abbreviated version of the slang
term jockum,which is a slang word for male genitalia dating back to 1560.
The colourful sentence signifying its original use was: “He tooke his Jockam in his
famble, and a wapping he went.”
But given we’re talking about the same bloke who didn’t know Nepal was a country, it’s
probably safe to assume Mr Trump isn’t keeping up on his 16th century.
Thus, for this to be Mr Trump’s benchmark for verbal impropriety was confusing to
many: