The victory in the United States is seen by the government () not only as an international relations issue, but a potential internal political problem with repercussions for the 2026 national election.
Lula’s aides assess that the Republican’s election should energize Bolsonarism in Brazil, giving impetus to the PT’s opposing group.
There is also fear about the possible impact on the Judiciary, since the billionaire, owner of Federal Court).
The former president () is a Trump enthusiast and has always positioned himself as a loyal admirer of the Republican, even during the period in which he was out of power.
Still in the early hours of this Wednesday (6), he hurried to congratulate him. He called the Republican a true resurgent warrior, the target of what he called unjustifiable electoral persecution.
The Bolsonaro governor (Republicans) also spoke out early in the morning. “Trump elected! We start the day celebrating the victory of conservatism, patriotism, prosperity, freedom”, wrote the governor of and listed at Planalto for 2026.
In addition to public praise, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), son of the former Brazilian president, has made trips to the USA in recent years to project closeness with people around the now American president-elect, mainly with members of the Trump family.
This Tuesday’s election (5) was no different. Eduardo published a photo next to Donald Trump Jr., the tycoon’s son, and videos of Trump during the investigation at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The Minister of Racial Equality, Anielle Franco, commented on the results of the American elections during the program “Bom Dia, Minister”.
“I woke up at dawn to check the result. I was very hopeful about Kamala Harris,” she said. “As soon as she announced [a candidatura] it was the symbolism of having a black woman competing for this space that has historically been denied to us. There’s a lot of struggle ahead, it’s impossible for us to wake up and see this result without thinking about how far we still have to go.”
One of the main concerns of the Lula government is that Bolsonaro will be able to use his connections with Trump to convince him to look at the relationship with Brazil from an ideological rather than a pragmatic perspective.
According to this logic, it generated apprehension among Lula’s aides when American politicians who support Trump, in the middle of this year, accused what they consider to be persecution and censorship by the STF against Bolsonaro supporters.
In April, for example, a US Congressional commission published a series of confidential dispatches from Moraes on the suspension or removal of profiles on social media. The disclosure occurred to echo Bolsonarist and Musk’s rhetoric that Moraes was practicing censorship against the opposition to Lula.
The diagnosis is that the renewal of this type of offensive, now with the support of the White House, could energize Bolsonaro supporters in demands such as amnesty requests for Bolsonaro and the defense of Moraes’ impeachment — even if there is no practical result, there is strong potential for destabilization.
Moraes and Musk were involved in a public dispute that culminated in the suspension of the social network X in Brazil for just over a month. The reason was successive failures by the social network to comply with STF orders regarding the removal of content from the platform.
Musk even called Moraes the dictator of Brazil and said that he kept Lula on a leash.
Despite his declared support for the Democrat, Lula congratulated Trump on his victory this Wednesday morning and spoke of “working together” with the .
“My congratulations to President Donald Trump on his electoral victory and return to the Presidency of the United States. Democracy is the voice of the people and it must always be respected. The world needs dialogue and joint work to have more peace, development and prosperity. I wish luck and success to the new government”, he stated.
