President Trump has long been known for breaking norms with his crude language — and used a variant of the word in a startling Easter Sunday message to Iran just this week. But it turns out that Democratic politicians are now far more likely than Republicans to spice up their public statements with the particular swear word, according to a New York Times analysis of social media posts made by governors and members of Congress since 2020.

Exhibit A: Representative Susie Lee of Nevada, reacting to news that Mr. Trump would attend a Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship.

“So fucking fucked up,” she wrote on X last week in a post that she later deleted. “Sorry, I say fuck a lot these days.”

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January 2026 was the month in the six-year window analyzed by The Times that Democratic officeholders used the F-word most frequently on the social media platform X, with 23 instances from 12 different lawmakers. (Democrats swear on Facebook and Instagram as well, but it occurs far less often than on X and was not part of the analysis.)