President Donald Trump called Democrats “dumb son of a bitches” at a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, and warned that he and the federal government would be less likely to help the state if Democrats won the midterms.

“Just get out and vote,” Trump said. “If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big, and we’re going to shove it up their ass.”

The rally was for the state’s Republican candidates, with a focus on Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

Trump’s language has grown rougher in speeches and social media posts throughout his second term, with some insults escalating to profanity. In September, he called CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins “sick, treasonous, and demented”; in August, he dismissed Democratic-dominant cities as “dirty”; and in June, he faced backlash for telling reporter Stephen A. Smith that he couldn’t run for president because “you need a high IQ.”

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director emerita of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, told HuffPost that Trump’s increasing use of vulgar language may be a sign that he is disinhibited and very at ease in public spaces.

“Ordinarily, you expect those kinds of vulgar expressions to appear in private, not in public,” Jamieson said. “He’s feeling more comfortable with the audience and less conscious that he may be picked up with an audience that might find it problematic.”

A Washington Post analysis found that in the first one and a half years of Trump’s first presidency, roughly 40% of his speeches featured a vulgar term. In his second term, this has risen to 93%, as of May 21.

“It’s impossible to know any speaker’s intent, but profanity is often used when the speaker is in a state of emotional arousal, or when they’re trying to engage their audience to have an emotional reaction,” said Ben Bergen, director of the Language and Cognition Lab at the University of California, San Diego. “In terms of audience, language like this is likely most effective for listeners who already feel socially or politically aligned with the speaker or their stance.”

Supporters are likely to see Trump as powerful or unfettered by societal norms when hearing him speak like this, Bergen said. Meanwhile, those who are against him are likely to see this as “out of control, uneducated and unintelligent.”

“That means that the most likely result of language like this is to increase the difference in public views of the speaker,” Bergen said.

HuffPost reached out to the White House for comment.

Another Statement Concerned The Experts, Too.

Beyond the profanity, Trump’s warning that Ohio could receive less federal help if Democrats win drew concern from Jamieson, who said that putting such a message explicitly in a campaign context turns it into a threat rather than an action taken after the fact.

She pointed to how Trump has two years left in office and a broad view of presidential power, “including withholding funds that have been appropriated by Congress.” When “faced with a natural catastrophe, do you get comparable help if you’re in a blue state or a red state?” Jamieson asked.

Trump has made similar remarks before. He delivered a comparable message to North Carolina voters in September. In June, he faced backlash for posting on Truth Social that he approved more than $846 million in disaster aid only to states that voted for him in the 2024 election, and then denied blizzard recovery requests from Democratic-led Rhode Island and New York.

Separately, on Saturday, Trump reiterated in a Truth Social video post that, “If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all Adult Citizens in the United States of America $5,000.” He first promised the money at the Republican National Committee’s midterm convention in September.