Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy bastard” during a meeting in San Francisco, California, with Democratic Party donors. “There is that crazy bastard that is Putin, but the existential threat to humanity is climate change,” said the 81-year-old Democratic president, candidate for a second term.

In English, Joe Biden used the three letters “SOB”, a shortcut for “son of a bitch” The insult is translatable into French as “bastard” or “asshole”