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Pennsylvania GOP tweets that Fetterman's use of 'jagoff' is profanity
Kristina Serafini | Tribune-Review
The Republican party blurred out the word in a tweet posted Wednesday showing a picture of a T-shirt that Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, the Democratic Party's nominee for lieutenant governor, sold during his campaign.
Some Southwestern Pennsylvanians say it every day.
But to the state Republican Party, jagoff is a profanity.
The party blurred out the word in a tweet posted Wednesday showing a picture of a T-shirt that John Fetterman, the Democratic Party's nominee for lieutenant governor, sold during his campaign.
The Pennsylvania Primary Election determined John Fetterman as the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor; Fetterman is endorsed by Bernie Sanders and his rise included selling t-shirts with profanity-laced attacks on President Trump!MORE: https://t.co/1kOou24P7N pic.twitter.com/l6M7zUJivR
— PA GOP (@PAGOP) May 16, 2018
The shirt said "Trump is a jagoff." The tweet notes Bernie Sanders endorsed Fetterman, who is the mayor of Braddock, and says "his rise included selling T-shirts with profanity-laced attacks on President Trump." A link to a donation page follows. The Oxford English Dictionary officially defined the word in 2016, with the online entry, "Jagoff, noun: (chiefly in Western Pennsylvania) a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person." Fetterman defeated four other candidates to win the nomination Tuesday. Fetterman tweeted a link to a website selling the shirts in January: Unlike everything Trump sold, these are made. Get your limited edition throwback: https://t.co/239xrhpgTI pic.twitter.com/GCsZXSNsiF— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) January 16, 2018
Wes Venteicher is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at 412-380-5676, wventeicher@tribweb.com or via Twitter @wesventeicher.Copyright ©2025— Trib Total Media, LLC (TribLIVE.com)