Quotes about Jair Bolsonaro

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Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won his race by a substantial margin. We agreed that Brazil and the United States will work closely together on Trade, Military and everything else! Excellent call, wished him congrats!

Just spoke with President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Our future Trade prospects are very exciting and our relationship is strong, perhaps stronger than ever before. I told him if the United States can help with the Amazon Rainforest fires, we stand ready to assist!

They say he [Jair Bolsonaro] is the Donald Trump of South America. Do you believe that? And he's happy with that. If he wasn't, I wouldn't like the country so much. But I like him.

About Jair Bolsonaro:

For him to have made incredibly disrespectful comments about my spouse—what can I say to you? It is sad. But it is sad first of all for him and the Brazilian people.

After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had mocked the appearance of French first lady Brigitte Macron on social media

Emmanuel Macron

The stakes couldn't be higher. The burning of the Amazon places the planet on red alert. Bolsonaro is encouraging this torching of the forest to appease his agricultural paymasters so they can use the land for beef cattle and soy. He is guilty of ecocide and politicians across the globe must stand up to this environmental criminal.

Molly Scott Cato

On the Amazon rainforest wildfires:

We would be kidding ourselves if we put our trust in Brazil's right-wing, pro-business president Jair Bolsonaro to protect it.

There is definitely a religious track in the rise of global fascism. In the US and in Brazil, the vote of the evangelical Christians was a primary factor in the elections of Trump and Bolsonaro.

Gilbert Mercier

The likes of Trump, Salvini, Kurz, Orban and Bolsonaro were elected largely on the false premise and racist notion of culture wars and clash of civilizations: the mythical threat that, in an already multi-ethnic world, immigrants, the outsiders often with darker skins or another religion, represent an existential peril for host countries.

Gilbert Mercier

Over there we've got Brazil in the hands of a fascist — Bolsonaro is a Hitler of the modern era! Let's leave the task of Bolsonaro to the wonderful people of Brazil, who will fight and take care of him.

Nicolás Maduro