“We have a sense of the dignity of the office of president that has consistently been violated to our horror over the course of American history,” said Cal Jillson, a politics expert and professor in the political science department at Southern Methodist University. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the subject of poems that leaned into racist tropes and allegations of bigamy. Grover Cleveland faced chants of “Ma, Ma Where’s my Pa?” in the 1880s over rumors he’d fathered an illegitimate child. And if you object and are taking it too seriously, go away.” America’s presidents have endured meanness for centuries “But it’s done with a little bit of a class. “Unless you are living in a cave, you know what it means,” he said. Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.” Southwest said in a statement that the airline “takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, and respectful environment” and that “behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive is not condoned.” On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers. Two protesters dropped the euphemism entirely, holding up hand-drawn signs with the profanity. This past week, Biden’s motorcade was driving past a “Let’s Go Brandon” banner as the president passed through Plainfield, New Jersey.Īnd a group chanted “Let’s go, Brandon” outside a Virginia park on Monday when Biden made an appearance on behalf of the Democratic candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe. When the president visited a construction site in suburban Chicago a few weeks ago to promote his vaccinate-or-test mandate, protesters deployed both three-word phrases. NASCAR and NBC have since taken steps to limit “ambient crowd noise” during interviews, but it was too late - the phrase already had taken off. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: “F- Joe Biden.”
The reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. The crowd behind him was chanting something at first difficult to make out.
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Brandon Brown, a 28-year-old driver, had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter. 2 NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.
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