Trump identifies with every corrupt politician in the world: Bibi, Bolsenaro, Putin, etc. That is his peer group. How dare their countries hold them to account for their crimes!

Anonymous wrote:Brazil should just put Bolsonaro to the gallows and eliminate Trump’s leverage.

Trump will move on within a week.

This might also remind people how things work out in the end sometimes.

I thought we love throwing economic sanctions on countries?

How can he even legally impose this tariff? We have a consistent trade SURPLUS with Brazil.

Brazil should just put Bolsonaro to the gallows and eliminate Trump’s leverage.

Trump will move on within a week.

Brazil can just just turn to China, problem solved.

So Trump thinks he can bully Brazil via political interference with 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports unless the current government drops the charges against the former right-wing president Bolsonaro. Trump says Bolsonaro is “not guilty of anything”. I hope MAGA is okay with their tax dollars going towards this type of geopolitical nonsense.

“Brazil’s president rejects Trump's effort to use tariffs to extract political concessions
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, firmly rejected Donald Trump’s demand that legal proceedings against former president Jair Bolsonaro be dropped and his claim that a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports was necessary to close a trade deficit that does not, in fact, exist.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/09/trump-tariffs-trade-politics-latest-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other