Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro left no question as he headed to the White House on Tuesday on reason he's referred to internationally as the 'Trump of the Tropics,' pushing a socialism-busting, anti-immigration message on the president's favorite news network.
'The best majority of potential immigrants do not have good intentions or do not intend to do the best or do good to the U.S. people,' he declared on Fox News.
He warned that Trump is right about socialist tendencies that threaten to erode democracies worldwide.
'I see President Trump fighting that trend and I couldn't agree more with him. I think he's right. And to a certain extent, we are doing very much the same thing in Brazil,' he said.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro left no question as he headed to the White House on Tuesday on reason he's referred to internationally as the 'Trump of the Tropics,' pushing a socialism-busting, anti-immigration message on the president's favorite news network
Bolsonaro is a self-styled Trump populist. He embraced Trump's campaign tactics, taking swings at immigrants, multi-national organizations and the media.
He has denounced media as 'fake news,' following in the footsteps of the U.S. president, who was busy bashing the media as 'dishonest and corrupt' on Tuesday morning on Twitter in advance of their discussion.
'Just like he wants to make America great, I want to make Brazil great,' Bolsonaro said as a candidate.
He also claimed, 'Trump faced the same attacks I am facing - that he was a homophobe, a fascist, a racist, a Nazi.'
The feeling is mutual. After Bolsonaro promised in his inaugural speech to 'work tirelessly so that Brazil reaches its destiny,' Trump hailed the remarks in a tweet and declared- 'the U.S.A. is with you!'
Bolsonaro told him in a reply, as the two conducted diplomacy over social media. 'I truly appreciate your words of encouragement. Together, under God’s protection, we shall bring prosperity and progress to our people!'
The White House signaled Monday that Trump was flattered by Bolsanaro's repeated references to him during the campaign.
'President Trump has followed President Bolsonaro's campaign. Obviously, his name was invoked on many occasions during the campaign, and all of you in the broader media have referred to him as the "Trump of the Tropics." That obviously has caught the President's attention,' the person said.
In Bolsonaro, he seems himself, the person indicated. 'He broke all of what I would say were the historic taboos of winning an election in Latin America.
'He ran on the campaign that he wanted to be the best friend to the United States, that he wanted to have this close relationship with President Trump and what that would mean for Brazil, what that would mean for the region and the world. I think that was very important,' the official said.
Bolsonaro is 'unabashedly pro-American,' demonstrating a major shift in Latin America.
'Obviously, there’s great synergy there and there’s a great mutual respect,' a senior U.S. official said Monday, previewing the White House meeting.
The last Brazilian president to visit the U.S. was Dilma Rousseff in 2015, in the final term of Barack Obama, making up for a visit that had been called off in the wake of revelations that the U.S. had spied on her.
Obama took her to see the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall near the White House as he attempted to ease the scarring that remained over Edward Snowden's disclosure that the U.S. was spying on its allies.
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton stopped to tell press how enthusiastic the White House is about Bolsonaro's visit after a television interview on Tuesday morning.
'We’re very much looking forward to the visit of President Bolsonaro is Brazil. This is a potentially historic opportunity to redirect relations between our two countries, the two largest democracies in the Western Hemisphere,' he said. 'I think it will have a profound impact not just in this hemisphere, but really around the world.'
Trump sent his national security adviser to the Rio de Janerio for talks with the fledgling government, and his secretary of state led a delegation of U.S. officials to the capital for Bolsonaro's inauguration.
'Clearly, we have seen, since day one, President Bolsonaro’s election as a real opportunity to fundamentally remake our relationship with Brazil,' a senior Trump administration official told reporters on Monday.
Trump's Washington is his first visit to a foreign nation for a bilateral meeting. 'And that’s very meaningful to us, as clearly it is to them,' the U.S. official said.
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Israel - pledged to follow Trump's lead and move the embassy there.
Netanyahu visited Brazil for Bolsanaro's Jan. 1 inauguration, when he said according to the PM that it was a matter of 'when, not if' he would relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
His administration has since walked back the promise and may not reveal its decision until his visit to Israel at the end of this month. Trade with Arab nations who oppose the move is said to be a major consideration, as the nation is among the top halal meat exporters.
Trump could in turn name Brazil a major non-NATO ally, which would give Brazil a boost in trade with the U.S. It is already one of the biggest traders with the United States in the world, second only to China.
The U.S. has a trade surplus of $27 billion with Brazil, and it's one area in which Trump has signaled that he and Bolsonaro could break on.
'They charge us whatever they want,' he said of tariffs the country puts on U.S. good. 'If you ask some of the companies, they say Brazil is among the toughest in the world - maybe the toughest in the world.'
The U.S. suggested that it would follow through on 'the execution of a lot of what has been discussed and agreed to in a historically short time' on trade in today's talks.
'Here we have, now, a government in Brazil that [we] consider an ally. And, as such, we’ll be working together -- have been working together -- on regional issues, like Venezuela, and look forward to working together on international issues, on non-regional issues like Iran, China, North Korea, and others,' the person said.
The refusal of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, whom the U.S. and Brazil have dubbed a dictator and want to renounce the presidency, will be a top topic. The U.S. has left the door open to military intervention but has not deployed troops to the region.
'Venezuela will absolutely be a subject of discussion,' a senior official said. 'Clearly, President Bolsonaro and President Trump share a strong support for Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaidó. Brazil has allowed the United States to pre-position humanitarian aid for Venezuela on Brazil's northern border. And obviously, we're very grateful to that.'
Brazil has welcomed 120,000 refugees from Venezuela amid the turmoil.
'So they're suffering the firsthand consequences on that,' the person said.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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