'A family of traitors': Trump's Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: The Guardian

Beneath the museum’s brutalist hulk, Marques spotted a cardboard effigy of the US president and took a picture with her phone before the Trump dummy was set on fire. “Laranjão safado,” which translates as big orange dirtbag, she wrote under her photo on Instagram. Nearby, demonstrators hoisted a red banner into the air which read: “Nice try Trump. But we’re not afraid.”

The rally was a response to Trump’s decision last week to launch a politically motivated trade war against South America’s biggest economy in an attempt to help his rightwing ally, the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, avoid jail.
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But a week after Trump’s tariff announcement, the ploy seems to be backfiring badly. The move has reinvigorated Bolsonaro’s leftwing rivals, given Lula a bounce in the polls and prompted a wave of public anger, largely focused on the Bolsonaro clan who have spent years portraying themselves as flag-loving nationalists.
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But Cantanhêde believed Trump’s “megalomaniac” move had boomeranged, handing Lula a golden opportunity to recover slumping public support by posing as a nationalist defender of Brazilian coffee producers, orange growers, cattle ranchers and plane manufacturers in the face of Bolsonaro’s anti-patriotic and self-serving sellout to Trump.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/trump-brazil-tariffs-ultimatum-backfires-bolsonaro-lula

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[Baitball Blogger]

1. This is how you stand up to a bully.

[DBoon]

2. we need more Democrats who are like Lula!

[Prairie Gates]

3. Calling these tariffs is a generous concession to Trump's redefinitions

There is no discernible market-based reasoning behind this action. It is clearly a sanction for what Trump personally perceives as some kind of misbehavior by the Brazilian government. Trump has imposed a personal sanction in the form of a US trade penalty on the entire jurisdiction of Brazil without any study or approval or even honest description of the action.

It's completely insane. We run a trade surplus with Brazil.

[Bayard]

4. Supporting a kindred spirit.....

Most of the world hates trump.

[PSPS]

8. If Putin, Kim or others of that ilk were to somehow face charges for their actions ...

trump would call it a "witch hunt" and try to help them escape culpability.

[Bayard]

9. He's already doing that with Netanyahu

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. My coffee was almost doubled in price yesterday compared to 3 weeks ago.

Directly as a result of the Felon's actions.

I want to know how the Republican's are going to try and blame Biden for this completely unnecessary f.ckup.

[Solly Mack]

7. ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Two families of traitors, in fact.

I had to read the full article to see which was being explicitly mentioned.