After Hurricane “Ian” passed through the state of Florida, US President Joe Biden personally got an idea of the destruction – and dropped pithy words that an open microphone recorded.
“No one fucks with a Biden,” the high-ranking visitor from Washington stated when speaking to Fort Myers Mayor Ray Murphy after the latter thanked him for coming. Translated conservatively, this means: “Nobody messes with a Biden”. “Yeah, you’re goddamn right,” Murphy replied no less briskly.
The president’s conversation with the mayor happened to be recorded after Biden had just wrapped up a joint press conference with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Biden and Murphy stood a little apart in the port of the city that had been hit hard by “Ian” and talked casually, apparently with the feeling that nobody would hear them.
It’s not the first time Biden has been caught using expletives. Earlier this year, a microphone left on after a press conference recorded the 79-year-old calling Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a “dumb prick” after he asked a question about inflation. Doocy later said Biden called him after the incident, apologized and the two had a “nice chat”.
In what is perhaps his most well-known blunder on the mic, the then-vice president told then-president Barack Obama in 2010 that signing the healthcare reform bill was a “big fucking deal” — a “damn big deal.”
“Ian” hit Florida last Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane. The cyclone caused massive devastation in the state in the south-east of the USA, large areas were flooded and numerous houses were destroyed.
The exact number of fatalities is not yet clear. The authorities recently spoke of 93 confirmed deaths, the media of more than a hundred. Rescue workers are still searching for missing people in the flooded areas.
Sources: “Now This” on Twitter, “Huffington Post”, “Business Insider”
