The f-word (“the efa word”) is the euphemism with which in English they refer to the word fuck, which undoubtedly is the most popular curse word —or swear word, or blasphemy— in this language and the touchstone of all its vulgar registers. It can be translated as merda, collons, puta (the variant puto, very widespread lately, is a Hispanism) and still a series of other possibilities, depending on the context of the sentence.Trump likes to use the f-word and its derivativeswhen he wants to act tough and politically incorrect. This Sunday he used it against Netanyahu, because the Israeli prime minister was once again on the verge of derailing, with a new bombing of Beirut, the agreement between the US and Iran to stop the war and open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump lamented this in a telephone interview with the digital Axios: “Why did Bibi have to do a fucking attack? I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no fucking judgement” (“Why did Bibi have to carry out a shit attack? I got very angry. I let him know. He has no sense, damn it”). Trump calls Bibi Benjamin Netanyahu because deep down there is an affection. The degradation of language, the normalization of crude language within politics, is, do not doubt it, another tactic and tool of the far-right: they pass off as a sign of supposed “authenticity” what is nothing more than an impoverishment and coarsening of public debate. This suits populists, never democrats.The fact is that Trump's agreement with the ayatollah regime —still pending signature, on Friday in Switzerland— hangs by a thread of Israel's intentions and maneuvers against Lebanon, which the chief of staff of the Israeli army, Eyal Zamir, confirms as the country's “main strategic priority”, as you can read in the information by Ethel Bonet and Núria Vila Masclans in this newspaper. Trump had announced this agreement as imminent on numerous occasions and, in the end, has achieved a preliminary agreement in which he must present as a great triumph having managed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which would not have been closed if he and Netanyahu had not started an illegal war (one more) against Iran. They have managed to return to the point where things were before February 28, when they launched the first attack against Tehran. Of course: with a toll of thousands of deaths and with a global energy, economic, and financial crisis about to be unleashed as a consequence of the brilliant maneuver of these geopolitics speculators.Trump, however, has to present it as a success, and for that he celebrated it with a tweet on his network, Truth Social, which said: "Let the oil flow!"(“Let the oil flow!”). Trump's presidency, in effect, is becoming a succession of invasions, wars, and coups d'état with the purpose of stealing the oil reserves of other countries. Or perhaps he was referring to the oil with which the wrestlers who performed at the White House to celebrate its eightieth anniversary are greased. Be that as it may, a very oily president.
