Moment of maximum tension lived in The critical lookwhen two experts who were on the set to talk about the U.S. presidential election and the victory of Donald Trumpformer Spanish ambassador to the U.S., Javier Ruipérez, and Professor of Economics Roberto Centeno, ended up fighting with insults.
It all started when Ruipérez exposed on set that the assault on the Capitol, courrido in January 2021, after Trump’s defeat at the polls, was “a coup d’état against the constitution.”
“Are you saying that you staged a coup d’état? And you were an ambassador to Spain? Well, Spain is in trouble. with ambassadors like you!”, reacted Centeno, visibly angry.
When asked by presenter Ana Terradillos to leave the past behind and look to the future, Ruipérez assured: “We are going to talk about the future, taking into account the fact that The United States has a coup plotter and a criminal as its president“.
“Don’t say more nonsense than you have already said in your life!”, exclaimed the professor, to which the former ambassador lost his patience and ended up insulting him: “This is an asshole on duty! But can’t you see he’s a lost asshole?”, he addressed Terradillos. After a few seconds, Ruiperez got up from the table and left the set: “It’s over. That’s where they keep him. Goodbye.
“Mr. Ruipérez, I feel bad. You have been very polite. I would not like you to leave the table,” the moderator reacted. “This is what we cannot allow, Mr. Centeno, I tell you from the bottom of my heart, you have not respected this moderator nor Mr. Ruipérez, who was speaking with all politeness. I am here ordering the traffic because I want everyone to speak. I ask you please, above all, to keep the time of the rest because otherwise it is very complicated”, he said to the professor.
“I don’t know if production can sit Mr. Ruipérez down again, because I am very interested in his opinion and I would not like to be left with this bad taste in my mouth.“Terradillos pointed out that, nevertheless, he saw that his talk show host did not return: “To reiterate my apologies to the former ambassador of the United States. I am left with a very bad taste in my mouth. It has been a very unpleasant moment and it grieves me greatly that you have left this table of The critical eyebecause I do not think it is a conflictive table. In short, everyone gives their opinion here as they please, with different opinions, but what we always try to do is to maintain education and in this case, Mr. Ruipérez understands that education has not been maintained and has left this table, for which I would like to reiterate my deepest apologies”, he concluded.