When Politics Get Personal: Politicians’ Most Insulting Slurs & Feuds

These Two European Leaders Also Butted Heads

Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle had a turbulent relationship that they managed to overcome to defeat Hitler during World War II. De Gaulle once said of the British leader: “He thinks he’s Joan of Arc, but I can’t get my bloody bishops to burn him.” Churchill once called the long-necked French leader: “He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.” De Gaulle also said of the British Prime Minister: “When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.”