Edwin L. Battistella

Edwin Battistella teaches at Southern Oregon University. His most recent book is Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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Insulting the President Is a Tradition as Old as the Nation

Donald Trump shares at least one thing with other presidents: They have almost all been the targets of wonderfully vile and terribly colorful insults.

Edwin L. Battistella