Exclusive: A Brazilian billionaire shareholder in JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, met with President Trump a day before the president announced a plan to waive tariffs on beef imports.
— The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) September 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
— Eric Geller (@ericjgeller.com) July 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Brazilian exports surged to record levels in 2025, shrugging off months of punishing US tariffs thanks to expanded shipments to China and other major trading partners.
— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Trump: TO be tough on China I will impose huge tariffs China [buys all its soybean from Brazil] Trump: To free Bolsonaro I will impose huge tariffs on coffee Brazil [jails Bolsonaro early] Trump to Japan: You have to let China take Taiwan or they won't buy our soybeans
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after Supreme Court panel convicts him of attempting coup.
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?
— Larry Glickman (@larryglickman.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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We are in new territory with Trump’s latest trade letter, threatening a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1 —The US runs a rare trade surplus with Brazil, so there’s no deficit to fix —Trump says these duties are explicitly over political concerns, not economic ones
— Megan Cassella (@megancnbc.bsky.social) July 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I stand with @LulaOficial and Brazil’s democratically elected government. Domestic terrorists and fascists cannot be allowed to use Trump’s playbook to undermine democracy.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) January 8, 2023
Bolsonaro must not be given refuge in Florida, where he’s been hiding from accountability for his crimes. https://t.co/ywOCTMgRxM
Been thinking about this a lot. People like to say our guardrails have held, but have they? We have normalized the fact that one of the two major parties refuses to accept election results. With Bolsonaro conceding, Brazil’s guardrails are looking stronger than ours right now. https://t.co/yhUITBgM1Z
— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) November 2, 2022
"This world is run by gangsters. Agent Orange, the guy in Brazil and Putin. They're gonna do whatever they wanna do. They have no morals, no scruples. That's the world we live in. We have to speak out against gangsters like that," says Spike Lee https://t.co/6WmiFCL1IR pic.twitter.com/0jVs29Oe5O
— Variety (@Variety) July 6, 2021
