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The sight of the slur shocked and alarmed the mother of a young boy with special needs.

Kimberly Steffes of Joliet never imagined a sitting president would use the “R-word,” a derogatory term long reviled by the intellectual disability community and its advocates.

Yet in a Thanksgiving message on Truth Social, President Donald Trump lobbed the anachronistic insult at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, calling the former Democratic nominee for vice president “seriously retarded.”

A few days later, amid a firestorm over the remark, Trump stood by his use of the word when questioned about it by reporters on Air Force One.

“If you have a problem with it, you know what, I think there’s something wrong with him,” Trump responded, referring to Walz.

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