No One Is Defying #Trump Like Brazil’s President
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of #Brazil during an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday at the Alvorada Palace in Brasília.
Faced with threats of 50% #tariffs & demands to end a #criminal case, President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva said he wouldn’t take orders from Trump.
#geopolitics #law
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President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva of #Brazil is outraged.
#Trump is trying to push around his nation of 200 million, dangling 50% #tariffs as a #threat, Lula said in an interview. And yet, he added, the #US president is ignoring his government’s offers to talk.
“Be sure that we are treating this with the utmost seriousness. But seriousness does not require #subservience,” Lula said. “I treat everyone with great respect. But I want to be treated with #respect.”