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peacebuzzard

(5,818 posts)
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 12:57 PM Tuesday

LOL!! Brazil's President says "Trump wants to govern through Twitter"

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it's in Portuguese but I love the statement!

https://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2026/01/20/lula-critica-trump-e-diz-que-presidente-dos-eua-quer-governar-o-mundo-pelo-twitter.ghtml

the photo shows up; sorry about the paywall....
Finally the giant Brazil makes a statement (even if its in portuguese) hahhaha Makes my day!

P.S. the rest of the Americas thinks he is a giant empty headed joke. With the exception of that Venezuelan politician who grifted him the Nobel.

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LOL!! Brazil's President says "Trump wants to govern through Twitter" (Original Post) peacebuzzard Tuesday OP
That's true but I'd go even further - Trump has no concept of governing. Ocelot II Tuesday #1
none whatsoever peacebuzzard Tuesday #2
Glad he is calling it Twitter Mme. Defarge Tuesday #3
I could be wrong... 2naSalit Tuesday #4
After an alert to the hosts, locking. Emile Tuesday #5

Ocelot II

(129,415 posts)
1. That's true but I'd go even further - Trump has no concept of governing.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:01 PM
Tuesday

To him everything is a real estate deal or a TV game show or social media content. There is no separate reality apart from those constructs. He's doing a deal or he's trying to get on TV or he's shitting out what passes for content on his fake Twitter. He's not living in the real world at all, where governing a country is actually a thing.

peacebuzzard

(5,818 posts)
2. none whatsoever
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:36 PM
Tuesday

he needs to be strapped to a gurney and taken for evaluation.
There is absolutely no valid output from this clown at all. And to think of the talking heads of this nation pausing for even a second to consider him a valid source is ludicrous. Why does it go on as business as usual is beyond my reasoning...omg.

Mme. Defarge

(8,917 posts)
3. Glad he is calling it Twitter
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:09 PM
Tuesday

instead of “X”.

2naSalit

(100,382 posts)
4. I could be wrong...
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:10 PM
Tuesday

But I think it says that he "wants to rule the world by twitter."

governar o mundo means rule the world, I think.

Somebody correct me, my Portuguese is VERY limited.

Emile

(40,902 posts)
5. After an alert to the hosts, locking.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:17 PM
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