{"id":147286,"date":"2022-09-23T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hot-mic-catches-south-korean-president-insulting-us-congress-describing-them-as-idiots"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:49:00","slug":"hot-mic-catches-south-korean-president-insulting-us-congress-describing-them-as-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hot-mic-catches-south-korean-president-insulting-us-congress-describing-them-as-idiots","title":{"rendered":"Hot mic catches South Korean president insulting US Congress, describing them as &#8216;idiots&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. Seong-Joon Cho\/Bloomberg\/Pool\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol was captured on a hot mic reportedly disparaging American lawmakers. Yoon was overheard calling members of US Congress &#8220;idiots&#8221; in a now-viral clip. The remarks were made after Yoon met with US President Joe Biden in New York City. South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol was captured on a hot mic reportedly disparaging American lawmakers as &#8220;idiots&#8221; shortly after he met with US President Joe Biden in New York. &#8220;It would be so humiliating for Biden if these idiots don&#8217;t pass it in Congress,&#8221; Yoon was heard telling aides in a now-viral clip, according to a translation by The Washington Post . Yoon and Biden met Wednesday at the Global Fund&#8217;s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York City. The South Korean president&#8217;s remark was apparently in reference to Biden pledging $6 billion in funding to the Global Fund, an international organization that aims to defeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It would be so humiliating for Biden if these idiots don&#8217;t pass it in Congress,&#8221; South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol reportedly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[79,42,43,102],"class_list":["post-147286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-congress","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}