Trump Has Chosen the Lucky City for His Next Crackdown
Trump on Bolsonaro: It’s very much like they tried to do with me but they didn’t get away with it pic.twitter.com/6fIa4ceZKK
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2025
“Well, I watched that
trial, I know him pretty well. Hard leader … I thought he was a good president
of Brazil. And it’s very surprising that that could happen. That’s very much
like they tried to do with me, but they couldn’t get away with it, at all,” the
president replied. “But uh, I can only say this: I knew him as president of
Brazil, he was a good man. And I don’t see that happening.”
Trump and Bolsonaro share a long-running fondness for authoritarianism
that transcends borders, and has led them to become true allies over the years.
On Thursday, Brazil’s
Supreme Court sentenced the former leader to 27 years in prison for
plotting a coup in 2023, or what some see as an attempt to recreate January
6 in Brazil. Bolsonaro had his supporters raid Brazil’s presidential palace, the Supreme Court, and Congress, all because he’d rather see chaos than admit he
lost the election to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
