had to arrive, and it has arrived, the day that the polite Joe Biden did good to his predecessor in the Oval Office, the foul-mouthed Donald Trump. The president of the United States a couple of days ago called a Fox News reporter who asked him about inflation a “damn son of a bitch.” Nobody would say that it is an issue that could unleash such an aggressive reaction from the Democrat who will turn 80 in November, and who presented himself as the reverse face of the histrionic and inflamed Republican businessman who used to outrage the critical press on social media. The man came to answer what he considered “too many questions” about Ukraine because he appeared to talk about his projects, and the White House correspondent of the ultra-conservative channel Peter Doocy came up with a topic that is not exactly going well for his governmentwho just turned a year old. Perhaps believing that he was muttering softly, perhaps thinking the mic was offTo the question of whether he believes that inflation skyrocketing to seven percent “will be a drag on the legislative elections at the end of the year”, Biden replied: “It is a great asset… more inflation. damn son of a bitch”. It is not the first quarrel he has with Doocy, who likes to put the president in trouble with irritating questions such as if he does not consider that his administration “makes policies too left-wing.” Trump systemically insulted all journalists except those from Fox, and Biden speaks well to everyone except Fox, coincidences exist. The aggrieved himself revealed that, after the dust storm caused by the publication of the video with the expletive, at night the president called him by phone to apologize. That it was nothing personal, he told her. Of course not, he’s professional. A leader capable of speaking without outbursts about Vladimir Putin, the pandemic or whatever comes next cannot withstand the scrutiny of those who he considers his ideological opposites and jumps like a spring, becoming what he most despised. Biden does not lavish himself before the media. He has given a couple of solo press conferences in twelve months. Perhaps the art of accountability has become rusty.
A week ago, the new president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, decided to offer an appearance without questions after their first contact in Strasbourg, so that the reporters left the room in defense of the right of citizenship to know something more than canned information in propaganda cabinets. La Moncloa denied a few days ago the accreditation of half a dozen media outlets to the act in which the distribution of European funds was going to be explained, alleging a problem of space with the current restrictions. Curiously, all those excluded have a tendency contrary to the Government of Pedro Sánchez, who became fond of televised monologues during the health crisis, did not accept any reply after explaining the ministerial remodeling and selected the interpellations of six media in his management balance of last December, none of them critical of his management. More coincidences.
Peter Doocy assures that he freely forgave the American leader, warning him that he will continue to ask different questions from the others. “Biden encouraged me: ‘You must do it’, so now I have a presidential mandate,” he ironically.
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