New York Times reporter and best-selling author Jonathan Swan inadvertently dropped an f-bomb while speaking about Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, the recently released book he wrote with his co-author Maggie Haberman at a Quaker school in Washington, D.C. this week.
Swan and Haberman addressed an audience at Sidwell Friends School on behalf of the legendary D.C. bookstore, Politics and Prose.
The moderator, Tim Alberta with The Atlantic, asked the authors about the book's dark humor.
"I'm wondering if that was intentional or if it was cathartic, or if it was needed for the two of you. Because one of the questions that I saw that was submitted to us is, 'How did the two of you keep your sanity in this process?'" he wondered.
"Well, in order to keep sanity, you have to have it in the first place," Swan said to audience laughter. "And I'm not even being glib. Like, we're not exactly stable people. We both work like maniacs. You know us. We have, you know, killed ourselves for many, many years reporting on this. So, I would just, you know, say that that didn't exist as a condition, a precondition for this book. Maybe it's a precondition to be in our state to be able to do this kind of reporting."