President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) provoked on Thursday, 10, the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans-SP), who has responsible for the petista management for the decision of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to tax Brazilian imports by 50%. The two are potential electoral opponents, as the governor of São Paulo is quoted to run for the Presidency of the Republic as successor of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the 2026 election.
In an interview with Jornal da Record On Thursday, Lula recalled that Tarcisio published a video using cap with the trumpland slogan “Make America Great Again” (“Make Big America again”) when Trump was sworn in in January. Sought, the government of Tarcísio de Freitas had not been positioned until the publication of this text.
The president said he is feeling better health conditions at the age of 80 than when he was 60, but stressed that the decision will be a candidate for reelection will be taken at the right time.
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“Now I’m going to tell you something: the madmen who ruled this country no longer come back,” he said, referring to Bolsonaro. “Mr. Tarcisio can take it, will not try to hide Trump’s little ride, Tarcisio, can be showing us to know who you are. It’s full of wolf in ram skin,” said Lula.
Then the president showed outrage at the US President, who called for the end of the criminal action against Bolsonaro, who is a defendant in the Supreme Court (STF) for attempted coup after losing to Lula in 2022.
“This Trump thing starts a paragraph by quoting the former president of the Republic who made a crime against this country? Who tried to blow? There is no way. They don’t come back. If you need a candidate to avoid this, I’ll be a candidate,” the petista added.
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Tarcísio and other pockets seek to attribute to the Lula administration the responsibility for Trump’s decision, although licensed federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL) has been since February in the United States seeking to convince the Trump government to adopt measures against the country and Brazilian authorities, notably STF minister Alexandre de Moraes, in response to the alleged political persecution suffered by Bolsonaro
On Wednesday, 9, Tarcisio published on social networks that Lula put the ideology above the result and that it is no use the president “hiding behind Bolsonaro” because the responsibility is the governor. Before, he had already shared Trump’s note that says Bolsonaro must be tried by the Brazilian people during the elections, not by justice.
Earlier this Thursday, Tarcisio acknowledged that the tariff announced by Trump will have negative impacts for Brazil and especially São Paulo, the most industrialized state of the country. The governor asked the federal government to set aside ideological differences and feels at the table with the Trump government to negotiate the reversal of the measure.
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“What we see is that from the G20 countries, the farthest of the White House is Brazil. We have been given very bad demonstrations, as it was now at the last BRICS meeting. So, we need to establish consensus and remember that Americans have always been the first -time allies in Brazil,” said Tarcisio.
After talking to the press in the morning, the governor traveled to Brasilia, where he had lunch with Bolsonaro. Both published a video of the meeting on social networks.
Hours later, the former president published a note that he says he received “with sense of responsibility” Trump’s decision to tax Brazil and said he respects and admires the US government.
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Bolsonaro stated that Brazil is moving towards “isolation” and “international shame” and asked the powers “to act urgently presenting measures to rescue institutional normality.” One of the charges made by Eduardo Bolsonaro after the taxation is that the Congress grants “broad, general and unrestricted amnesty”, benefiting the former president and those arrested for the January 8 coup act.
