The president of the United States, Joe Biden, launched harsh criticism against his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, whom he called a “crazy son of a bitch,” at a public fundraising event held this Wednesday in California.
“We have a crazy son of a bitch like that guy Putin, and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is the climate,” Biden said in a brief speech before a small group of journalists in the event held in San Francisco.
Biden used the acronym “SOB” in English, which is equivalent to “son of a bitch,” a vulgar expression that can be translated into Spanish as “son of a bitch.”
The American president did not spare his insults towards the Russian leader, whom he had already described as a “butcher” and “war criminal” for ordering the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Biden announced that this Friday the United States will impose new and severe sanctions on Russia for the death in prison of opponent Alexei Navalny.
This is not the first time Biden has used foul language in public. In January 2022, when she had the open microphone, she called a Fox News reporter a “son of a bitch.”
Biden’s insult took place after reporter Peter Doocy asked him if he believed that inflation in the United States could be a “political burden” for his party in the legislative elections to be held in the country in November.
“Will you accept questions about inflation? Do you think inflation is a political liability in the face of the midterm elections? Doocy asked Biden when the rest of his colleagues were already leaving the White House room where the press conference was held.
“No, it’s a great value. More inflation,” Biden said sarcastically, before adding: “What a stupid son of a bitch.”
It’s unclear whether the president realized his microphone was still on, given that he made his comment as reporters were already leaving the East Room of the White House, where they had attended the start of a Biden meeting on how to get them down. prices in the country.
After Biden complained that all the reporters’ questions referred to the crisis in Ukraine, and as his colleagues were preparing to leave the room, Doocy asked that question regarding inflation and the president unleashed his outburst.
The incident immediately became the topic of the afternoon on Fox News and even on rival network CNN, and in the first of them they interviewed Doocy, who joked about the topic. “No one has verified so far (what Biden has said) and has said that it is not true (that I am a stupid son of a bitch),” said the White House correspondent.
Doocy has been involved in several tense exchanges with White House spokesperson Jen Psaki, because her questions reflect the conservative tendency of the Fox News network and are sometimes based on premises based on misinformation.
However, despite Biden’s tendency to speak off-tone at times, until now he had not had similar disrespect with any journalist, although last week he said that the question posed to him by another Fox News reporter was “stupid”.
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