Joe Biden loses his temper with Vladimir Putin during meeting with donors

Relations between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are not ready to calm down. On Wednesday February 21, the American president described the Russian president as “crazy bastard” during a meeting in San Francisco, California, with Democratic Party donors. In English, Joe Biden used the three letters “SOB”, a shortcut for “son of a bitch”, an insult translatable into French as “bastard” or “asshole”.

“The existential threat is climate change. There’s that crazy bastard Putin, and others, and you always have to worry about nuclear war, but the existential threat to humanity , it’s climate change”, launched the 81-year-old Democratic president, candidate for a second term, during a brief speech attended by a small group of journalists.

He also attacked former President Donald Trump, who will most likely be his opponent in November, and his reaction to the death in prison of Alexei Navalny. The Republican likened his problems with American justice to political persecution and compared his fate to that of the Russian opponent. “If I had said such a thing in front of you 10 or 15 years ago, you would all have thought that I should be forcibly interned”said Joe Biden.