The ideal president drinks and gambles during prohibition. The ideal president excersises his civil disobedience.
In America we begin with the idea that the government is overstepping it's bounds, it's bound to. It's not beyond individual morality to know the difference between civil disobedience and impulchritudinous behavior, crime, immoral mayhem, and of course, the citizen takes responsibilities for the declared penalties.
Of course some disagree with that view.
They disagree sometimes on the basis that it's hypocritical to allow other's to be punished for something illegal that you yourself are doing, that a person in the position of power of a president that felt a law was not worth observing should act on that in a public way, and I entirely agree.
But of course cursing isn't illegal. It's just civilly unacceptable
admission: This thought came to me from reading hidden comments.