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'Idiots:' South Korean president recorded insulting US lawmakers over global health funding
MARINA PITOFSKY | USA TODAY


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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was heard calling U.S. lawmakers “idiots,” saying it would be "humiliating" for President Joe Biden if they do not approve global health funding, according to multiple reports.

Yoon and Biden met at a conference for the Global Fund in New York on Wednesday. Biden has pledged $6 billion from the United States to the organization’s efforts to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The funding requires approval from Congress.

“It would be so humiliating for Biden if these idiots don’t pass it in Congress,” Yoon was heard saying as he and a group left the Global Fund event, as translated by multiple outlets.

Video of the comments quickly went viral online. Some translations of Yoon’s comments use an expletive instead of the word “idiots.”


South Korea’s presidential office on Thursday said Yoon’s comments were not focused on the U.S., according to multiple reports. A spokesperson for the president’s office, Kim Eun-hye, said Yoon did not say Biden, but a word that sounds similar in Korean. She also said he was referring to South Korean lawmakers, not U.S. members of Congress.

The hot mic moment did not go unnoticed by U.S. lawmakers, however. U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., on Thursday tweeted “hey, only we get to say that.”

Common man have no say

Yes those lawmakers are idiots. very big idiots.

They catch am...he think they wont interprete watin him dey talk ni? They now want to denie he doesnt mean that

Wetin him talk

World power is not by owning nuclear weapons and invading smaller countries only. Imagine how much USA is dashing the world for global health programs, $6b. The whole world including Russia, China and Iran etc will directly or indirectly benefit from it as always. How much has any of these countries approved from their countries for the whole world to use except producing weapon of mass destruction to threaten world peace.

nnachukz:
World power is not by owning nuclear weapons and invading smaller countries only. Imagine how much USA is dashing the world for global health programs, $6b. The whole world including Russia, China and Iran etc will directly or indirectly benefit from it as always. How much has any of these countries approved from their countries for the whole world to use except producing weapon of mass destruction to threaten world peace.

. America is a blessing to the word

He was caught on hot mic. It tells you that all these leaders hold US politicians in scant regard. That is the legacy of Trump who loves to denigrate US govt institution

Is he right or not?

nnachukz:
World power is not by owning nuclear weapons and invading smaller countries only. Imagine how much USA is dashing the world for global health programs, $6b. The whole world including Russia, China and Iran etc will directly or indirectly benefit from it as always. How much has any of these countries approved from their countries for the whole world to use except producing weapon of mass destruction to threaten world peace.

Being number one comes with a lots of responsibilities. You must be involved in everything going on in the world. The US don't care about you or people living with AIDS. But they must be involved in all these events, if they still want to be relevant.

The US have started talking about competing with Russia in Africa. So expect more wars (US sponsored COUP, assassination of some African leaders, illegal removal of African leaders e.t.c) on our continent. Africa should be ready for more instabilities & atrocities.

These people are vassal that are subject one way or the other to US but they just can't talk...
I really pity them..