Opinion: Alongside Brazilian president, Trump hails 'fake news' bond
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro shakes hands with President Trump during a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 19. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 19 at 4:20 PM Global approval of U.S. leadership has been tanking under President Trump, according to Gallup surveys.
A glossary may be helpful here. “Respect to traditional family lifestyles” means “disrespect to LGBTQ lives.” “If a gay couple came to live in my building,” Bolsonaro said in 2011, “my property will lose value. If they walk around holding hands, kissing, it will lose value! No one says that out of fear of being pinned as homophobe.
With half a billion dollars in public-sector marketing budgets coming under his discretion, the fiery former Army captain is threatening to slash ad buys with adversarial media groups, striking at the financial foundations of Brazil’s free press. “That newspaper is done,” Bolsonaro said in a tense TV Globo interview. “As far as I’m concerned with government advertising — press that acts like that, lying shamelessly, won’t have any support from the federal government.”
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