() and allies criticized, but the former president was successful in his mandate in producing embarrassments with foreign powers — in 2020, he even said that, if he ran out of saliva, he would use “gunpowder”, in reference to speeches by the then president-elect of the United States.
“We recently saw a great candidate for head of state say that if I don’t put out the fire in the Amazon, how can we deal with all this? Diplomacy alone won’t work, right, Ernesto [Araújo, então chanceler]? When you run out of saliva, you have to have gunpowder, otherwise it won’t work”, .
The Brazilian president was referring to Biden, who days before had defeated Donald Trump and who during the election campaign had stated that he could impose sanctions on Brazil.
Bolsonaro’s speech was for businesspeople linked to the tourism sector, at an event to launch policies for the sector.
“You don’t even need to use gunpowder, but you have to know that you have it. This is the world. Nobody has what we have,” he said.
During his administration, Bolsonaro also entered into diplomatic friction with several other countries, including Emmanuel Macron’s France and Gabriel Boric’s Chile.
This Saturday (16), he said he was not afraid of , owner of X (old), and used an expression in English to attack him.
“Fuck you, Elon Musk”, he said, with terms equivalent to “go fuck yourself”, to refer to the businessman who will take up a position in the government of the elected president of the United States.
The statement was given during Cria G20, a Social panel, organized by the government () to create a bridge between topics addressed by the group and civil society.
Hours later, on X, there was a publication with Janja’s video subtitled in English. “They are going to lose the next election,” he wrote, with laughing emojis.
On his social networks, Bolsonaro reproduced the video of the first lady’s speech and wrote: “We already have another diplomatic problem.”
Janja’s speech also upset government members and diplomats.
Under reservation, they stated that the insults could hinder the Brazilian government’s attempt to have a pragmatic relationship with the future Trump administration.
Furthermore, they classify the declaration as counterproductive in the attempt to reach a consensus and reduce friction with Argentina during the G20.
Still on Saturday, . “I wanted to tell you that this is a campaign in which we don’t have to offend anyone, we don’t have to insult anyone. We just need to outrage society”, said the PT member, without directly mentioning the episode in which Janja cursed the billionaire owner of X.
