'Animalistic situation': US Envoy Tom Barrack insults journalists in Lebanon

Published August 26th, 2025 - 12:27 GMT
US Envoy Tom Barrack
US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack (L) delivers a statement, as he is accompanied by US deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus, following a meeting with Lebanon's president at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on August 26, 2025. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

ALBAWABA - US Special Envoy Tom Barrack has landed in hot water after his latest statement to the press in Lebanon.

Tom Barrack directed insulting remarks to journalists during his press conference following his meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the Republican Palace.

The US Envoy was annoyed with the course of the press conference, so he threatened the journalists to end the conference if they did not calm down and continued to behave in a "chaotic, animalistic" manner.

Barrack said: "Be quiet for a moment, and I wanna tell you something, the moment that this starts to becoming chaotic like 'animalistic', we're gone." 

He added, "So you want to know what has happened, act civilized, act kind, act tolerant because this is the problem with what is happening in the region."

However, before being this mad, and once the US envoy entered the press room, multiple journalists were heard shouting, 'answer me, answer me'.


 

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