The unusual nation: Joe Biden insulted a Fox News journalist

Possibly without realizing that the microphone was on, the US president Joe Biden murmured the insult to a reporter who asked him a question: "What a stupid son of a bitch", in the middle of a fuss at the end of a round table in the houseWhite.

When the reporters left the room, a Fox News journalist, the favorite channel of the conservatives and one of the favorite of former Republican President Donald Trump, asked if he believed that inflation could be a political handicap.Biden, in a low voice and without getting up, began saying with irony: “It is a great advantage.More inflation ”.

This slip is a new sign of the nervousness of the 79 -year -old Democrat, who faces an index of popularity between public opinion under and tries to give bellows to the presidency.Inflation, at an unprecedented level in 40 years, greatly affects Americans when less than ten months are missing for medium mandate elections, which promise to be complicated for Democrats.

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Bombarded with criticism

The tone departure on Monday contrasts with the usual affability of this president who has promised to reconcile the United States and usually avoids the excess of Donald Trump's language.Joe Biden was immediately bombarded with criticism of the Republicans.

"So presidential," Conservative Congressman Josh Hawley tweeted sarcasm, while some of his colleagues reproduced with irony calls to Biden's moderation.Known for the incisive tone of his questions, the insulted journalist, Peter Doucy, took it with humor.

"No one has yet verified the veracity of his words," he said in his channel minutes later.Doucy later said that Biden had called him after an hour and said: "It's nothing personal, friend."

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Last week, after a very long press conference in which he had promised to get closer to the Americans, Joe Biden had already been irritated in a moment."What a stupid question," he muttered after another Fox News journalist asked him something.

In that press conference he also made several imprecise comments on Ukraine and the legitimacy of the elections that forced the government to make clarifications.Donald Trump was vilified by his verbal excesses and his diatribes against the media.After a rifirrafe with the Republican billionaire, a journalist from the CNN chain was temporarily without accreditation before the White House.

Joe Biden's false steps, from the presidential campaign, have arisen doubts about his mental skills.The majority of his voters seem to forgive the folly, consider him a comprehensive and authentic person and accuse the media of enlarging the controversies.

Source: AFP.