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Especially with the crassness and vulgarity routinely emanating from the nation’s ill-mannered chief executive?

"Knowing the vulgarity of the old world, today I try to avoid being listened to by the new world – so that I don't come across as detestable," he told the court.

The real marvel, in this instance, being the avoidance of vulgarity.

But he was also deeply controversial - and, by his own admission, an "aggressive and reckless man", routinely accused of promoting vulgarity, debauchery and violence through his music.

His inauguration unfolded like a grotesque pageant, a theater of excess where power and cruelty met on a stage gilded in vulgarity.