Watch: Trump calls Biden a ‘dumb son of a b****’

It feels as if almost every American presidential election is billed as the ‘nastiest in US history’. Steerpike, contrarian that he is, would like to reject this lazy media characterisation. Politics is always nasty and American politics has its own particular viciousness.

When it comes to the likely Trump vs Biden rematch in 2024, however, all bets on civility are truly off. It was deeply unpleasant in 2020 and will be even worse this time.

Here’s Donald Trump in Pennsylvania calling his rival, the President of the United States, a ‘dumb son of a b****’.

Not satisfied with dissing Biden, Trump also called Ron DeSantis a ‘son of a b****’ – though he rather tellingly left out the word ‘dumb’.

The MAGA crowd lapped it up of course; they always do. They come to be entertained by Trump’s willingness to shock. And Trump loves to give fans what they want.

Trump also did his now familiar riff, another fan favourite, on ‘the Biden crime family’, bitterly contrasting his own treatment at the hand of the Justice Department with that of the Democratic Commander-in-Chief.