US President Joe Biden, during private meetings, spoke ironically about the leaders of countries, in particular about President Vladimir Putin, informs NBC channel. Biden described Putin as “a guy with nuclear weapons and no friends.”
Speaking of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Biden said he was “not Angela Merkel”; Biden also believes that the head of France, Emmanuel Macron, “wants to be Charles de Gaulle,” and that British Prime Minister Boris Jones’s manner is “noisy.”
US National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne told NBC that these “anonymous rumors in no way reflect what the president says or thinks about his colleagues, whom he respects and appreciates.”
