In politics, words are never far from the action: How to describe the upcoming legislation? How to set the tone for the party’s convention? How to address reporters when descending from Air Force One? “Word eruptions” – words about words about words – are a constant thing as a result and that was even truer when Donald Trump became president: One of his supporters, Roseanne Barr, lost her TV show after making racist allusions about an Obama staffer; Melania Trump wore a coat declaring “I really don’t care. Do U?” which also caused a stir; comedian Michelle Wolf prayed that White House staffer Kellyanne Conway would be hit by a tree and also described Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as “an Uncle Tom for white women”; Robert De Niro went on a rant against Trump at the Tony Awards; and Peter Fonda imagined ripping “Barron Trump from his mother” and putting him in a “cage with pedophiles.”1 Cruel words, incessant words, ineluctably political words.