Vladimir Putin joked on Wednesday about the G7 leaders who recently had fun mocking the virile image displayed by the Russian president, saying that seeing them shirtless would be a “disgusting spectacle”.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked at the opening of the G7 summit in Germany on Sunday whether top world leaders should keep their jackets on or take them off to show off their “pecs”.
“We have to show that we are stronger than Putin”, he launched, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added: “We are going to be entitled to the demonstration of bare-chested riding”, referring to a famous photo session of Vladimir Putin on horseback shirtless in 2009.
“I don’t know if they wanted to strip down to their waists or even lower, but anyway, it would have been a disgusting sight,” Putin quipped at a press conference in Ashkhabad. the Turkmen capital.