Joe Biden called a Fox News reporter a ‘stupid son of a bitch’

US President Joe Biden insulted a conservative Fox News reporter on Monday at the end of a White House photo session, possibly believing the microphone was off.

As the reporters left the room, a journalist from Fox News, the favorite channel of conservatives and one of the favorites of former Republican President Donald Trump, asked him if he thought inflation could be a political handicap.

“It’s a big plus. More inflation,” Joe Biden replied wryly, possibly unaware that the microphone was on.

“What a stupid son of a bitch,” muttered the president, who is facing a sharp drop in popularity in public opinion, according to polls, at the start of a year of midterm elections in which Democrats could lose the vote. narrow majority in Congress.