Schiff: Trump cannot criticize language after turning my name into a profanity

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump “is not in a position to talk about language” because “no one has done more to debase the political sphere than Donald Trump.”

“I’m in a unique position to say this,” Schiff noted, “considering the president turned my name into a profanity.”

Trump in a November tweet labeled Schiff as “little Adam Schitt.”

{mosads}Trump last week criticized Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who just took office, after she said the new Democratic majority would “go in and impeach the motherf—er.”

“I thought her comments were disgraceful,” Trump said Friday.

Several Democrats have distanced themselves from Tlaib’s remark, including Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who earlier in the CNN program said his constituents would never speak that way about the president.

“Even the most progressive of the constituents I have,” he said. “They know better than to use that kind of language about the president of the United States, regardless of the coarse language that the president uses in public.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) previously said of Tlaib’s remark that “I wouldn’t use that language,” but added that she is “not in the censorship business.”

Trump’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, also on CNN’s Sunday show, defended Trump’s use of “coarse” language, saying it did not mean he is “coarsening” public discourse overall.