Trump Redefines the ‘N-Word’ for Fox News

President Donald Trump discussed a definite “n-word”—this 1 meaning “nuclear”—in a Fox News interrogation Friday.

The president went backmost to that spot of his portion discussing the caller ceasefire betwixt India and Pakistan—two nuclear-armed nations—with Special Report anchor Bret Baier.

After Baier framed the May 10 ceasefire—which Trump said was mediated by the U.S.—as a “foreign argumentation success,” the president described the escalating contented with an unusual prime of words.

“They were angry, and the adjacent signifier was probably—did you spot wherever it was getting? It was tit-for-tat. It was getting deeper and more, I mean, much missiles. Everyone was stronger, stronger, to a constituent wherever the adjacent ones are going to beryllium you cognize what: the n-word,” Trump said.

“You cognize what the n-word is, right?” helium asked Baier, who replied: “nuclear.”

“Yeah,” Trump affirmed, arsenic the 2 chuckled astir it.

“Thank you for the clarification,” Baier said.

“I figured you’d privation to cleanable that up,” continued Trump, who has been accused by his niece, his nephew, and a shaper connected The Apprentice of utilizing the radical slur.

“No, it’s the n-word. It’s a precise nasty word, right? In a batch of ways. The n-word utilized successful a atomic sense—that’s the worst happening that tin happen,” helium said.

The Trump administration’s mediator relation successful the struggle was reportedly sparked successful portion by what Vice President J.D. Vance had said connected Fox: that what was happening betwixt the 2 countries was “fundamentally nary of our business.”

That caused alarm successful the medication that things could get retired of manus if the U.S. sat connected the sidelines, The New York Times reported.

And truthful the adjacent day, Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged apical officials successful some countries to extremity the fighting.

Hostilities betwixt the neighboring countries had ramped aft an April violent onslaught successful Indian-controlled Kashmir killed 26 civilians. India blamed Pakistan, which denied involvement.