According to a former adviser, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson grossly insulted French President Emmanuel Macron in the days after Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began. In early March 2022, Johnson gave Macron a “four-letter word that begins with C” in his presence, Johnson’s former adviser Guto Harri said in a podcast published Thursday.
Harri was referring to the British swear word “cunt”, which both refers to the female genitalia and is used as a personal insult. In a “violent outburst,” Johnson also described Macron as a “lunatic” and “Putin’s mushroom,” Harri said.
“Beating Orgy for the Frogs”
The former BBC journalist, who worked for the British Prime Minister from February 2022 until Johnson’s resignation in September, also reported in his new podcast “Unprecedented” on Johnson’s statement that a “fight for the frogs” (a swear word used in Britain for Frans), where for Macron he would “put out the lights with a punch”.
“Dark Gallows Humor”
His ex-counsel explained Johnson’s outburst as an example of “really dark gallows humor” that was “obviously a coping mechanism” for the extremely tense situation at the time. Harri said Johnson began his diatribe after Macron publicly accused him in a newspaper interview of not taking enough Ukrainian refugees into the country. In addition, Macron’s attempts to mediate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the British Prime Minister found “disgusting”, added to Johnson’s anger.
A spokesman for Johnson declined to comment on Harri’s statements, but underlined that the former prime minister was not participating in the podcast.
After all: according to Harri, the British former prime minister and Macron would later have reconciled. “They drank a whiskey together at a G7 summit (…) and said ‘Mon ami’ and ‘enchanté Emmanuel’ to each other”. Johnson invited Macron to London to “show the world that our male friendship is alive”.
Source: Krone
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