Biden is trumped, by Pilar Garcés

It had to come, and it came, the day when polite Joe Biden he did good to his predecessor in the Oval Office, the descended Donald Trump. The president of the United States called a Fox News reporter who asked him about inflation a few days ago a “stupid son of a bitch”. No one will say it’s an issue that could unleash such an aggressive response from the Democrat who will turn 80 in November, and who has presented himself as the reverse face of the histrionic and incensed Republican businessman leading the critical press on social networks. made angry. talks about his projects, and the White House correspondent of the ultra-conservative channel Peter Doocy came up with a topic that is not going very well for his government, which has just turned one year old. Maybe he believes he mumbles softly, maybe thinks the microphone is closed, over the question of whether he believes that inflation rising to seven percent “at the end of the year will be an obstacle to the legislative elections,” Biden replied : “This is a big trick… more inflation. Damn son of a bitch.” This is not the first wrestling match he has had with Doocy, who likes to get the president into trouble with annoying questions. as if he does not believe his administration is “doing too much left-wing politics.”

Trump has systematically insulted all journalists except those of Fox, and Biden speaks well of everyone except Fox, coincidences exist. The aggrieved party revealed that, after the dust storm caused by the publication of the video with the explosive, at night the president called him to apologize. That it was nothing personal, he told her. Of course not, he is professional. A leader who is able to speak without outbursts about Vladimir Putin, the pandemic or whatever, can not resist the scrutiny of those he considers his ideological opponents and jumps like a feather and becomes what he is. most despised. Biden does not present himself exuberantly in front of the media. He has held several solo press conferences in 12 months. Perhaps the art of accountability has become rusty.

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One week ago, the new President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, They decided to make an appearance without question after their first contact in Strasbourg, so the reporters left the room in defense of the right of citizens to know anything more than canned information in propaganda cabinets. La Moncloa a few days ago denied the accreditation of half a dozen media outlets to the law in which the distribution of European funds will be explained, claiming a problem of space with the current restrictions. Oddly enough, all those excluded have a tendency against the Government of Pedro Sánchez, who fell in love with television monologues during the health crisis, He accepted no answer after explaining the ministerial remodeling and last December selected the questions from six media in his balance sheet of management, none of them critical of his management. More coincidences.

Peter Doocy assures that he has forgiven the North American leader without resentment, warn you that you will continue to ask other questions than others. “Biden encouraged me, ‘You have to do this,’ so now I have a presidential term,” he believed.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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