Even Estadão: Jornal calls Trump mobster and alert to trumpper risks

Even the Estadão “Known for his tax rigor, his left -wing aversion and his appreciation for open markets,” he decided to break the silence when Donald Trump crossed all the lines of diplomacy.

In an editorial published on Thursday (10), the newspaper classified as “mobster” the letter sent by Trump to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in which the American imposes 50% tariff on Brazilian products and requires the end of judgments against Jair Bolsonaro.

For the vehicle, the episode exposes the destructive nature of the trumpper and, by the way, of pockets.

In unusual language even for a newspaper historically aligned with the conservative liberal agenda, the Estadão He went straight to the point: “Trump uses the threat of imposing commercial tariffs on Brazil to force the country to surrender to its absurd demands.”

The assessment appears shortly after the newspaper reports the content of the letter with a list of mischief – from the accusation that Brazil pursues Bolsonaro to the lie that the US accumulates commercial deficits with the country.

“There is no other conclusion to draw from this myxordia: it is mobster,” the text sentences.

The newspaper also criticizes Trump’s attempt to impose his will on the Brazilian judiciary, implying that the US president projects in Brazil the authoritarianism he has been imposing in the United States.

“Perhaps the US President, who is being successful in the dismantling of the US Republic brakes and counterweights, imagine that in Brazil the president can also do what he understands in legal proceedings.”

With an unusual indignation tone, the Estadão It recognizes that Trump “went from all limits”, trying to directly interfere with the functioning of Brazilian institutions through economic blackmail.

The editorial concludes this excerpt reaffirming the obvious – although not always said: criminal actions against Bolsonaro are not the responsibility of the executive, but of the Brazilian justice.

Trumpism and Bolsonarism are treated as twin threats

The editorial of Estadão He did not just criticize Trump. He went beyond tracing a direct parallel between trumpper and pockets, calling them “harmful” movements and moved by personal interests that have nothing to do with the public good.

For the newspaper, the episode of the tariff letter made evident what was already suspected: the political projects of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro operate from the same authoritarian and destructive logic.

“For these movements, the interests of the US and Brazil are confused with the particular interests of Trump and Bolsonaro,” writes the newspaper, making it clear that façade nationalism propagated by both is nothing more than a shield for private ambitions.

It is not, according to the editorial, “America in the first place” or “Brazil above all”, but of a kind of selfish and violent political survival.

Criticism approaches a common reading to the left by describing these leaders as agents of institutional dismantling.

The text states that the episode served to confirm the “destructive nature of these waste of democracy” – a rare expression in editorials of the great press, especially of a newspaper that, in the recent past, preferred to balance between the poles of political dispute.

Even though the Estadão Keep its usual reserve when it comes to praising the Lula administration, the recognition of the severity of Trump’s gesture and the equalization of the two authoritarian leaders reveals a significant rhetorical displacement.

With his letter, Trump may have achieved an unlikely feat: providing reactions of repudiation even among those who historically saw exaggeration in those who warned the risks of pockets.

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Alert agribusiness and direct criticism of Tarcísio

O Estadão It also dedicates a direct excerpt to the economic impacts of the 50% tariff threat and the posture of Jair Bolsonaro’s allies, highlighting the governor of Sao Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans).

The newspaper criticizes Tarcisio’s recent gesture by wearing the red cap of the Make America Great Again movement (Maga), a symbol of the Trumpist campaign, and the warning comes with irony.

“Wearing Trump’s cap today means aligning yourself with a troglodyte that can cause immense damage to the Brazilian economy.”

The mention of agribusiness is direct. The text states that if Trump takes the surcharge ahead, the advocates of his agenda in Brazil “will have difficulty explaining themselves with the affected productive sectors.”

In other words: Blind political support for trumpper can be expensive – and not just in symbolic terms.

By pointing out the economic risks of the ideological alliance between Tarcisio and Trump, the editorial implies that the price of fidelity to the former US president can be felt in Brazilian exports, productive chains and electoral bases that support figures such as the São Paulo governor himself.

Criticism is not restricted to the economic field. By binding support to Trump with connivance with its methods, the newspaper demands responsibility for those who, in Brazil, still try to inherit the Bolsonarist estate.

The posture is presented as inconsequential and even unfair to the country. As the editorial itself sums up, “this is the evil that makes Brazil an irresponsible as Bolsonaro, with the help of all who give it political support for inheriting its electoral heritage.”

Unprecedented reaction and change of tone in traditional media

The editorial marks a rare moment in the recent trajectory of the Brazilian major press. With an incisive and half -words text, the Estadão He broke with the usual calculated neutral tone that the newspaper often adopts in crises involving the right figures.

In calling Trump a “troglodite”, Bolsonaro “irresponsible” and his support base of “Sabuja”, the newspaper walks away – at least in this episode – of any nod to the alleged equivalence between the two political fields.

Without ever citing the name of President Lula praised, the text, however, recognizes that the reaction of the Brazilian government was correct and proportional.

It points out that Lula reaffirmed national sovereignty, defended the independence of powers and called on the law of economic reciprocity – something that the newspaper, traditionally averse to protectionist trade policies, endorses in this case as a legitimate response to an unacceptable attack.

If, at other times, the Estadão He hesitated to name Bolsonarism for what he is, this time there were no subterfuges. The editorial makes it clear that trumps, and its tropical version, represent concrete threats to democracy, institutionality and the national economy. For a newspaper that has already relativized these same political forces in the past, the rhetorical turn does not go unnoticed.

In closing with the appeal so that “those who are truly Brazilian” do not kneel before Trump, Bolsonaro or his “libertic members”, the Estadão It seems to want to reposition itself – even late – as a defender of democratic legality and national sovereignty.

And when even the most conservative of big newspapers leaves ambiguity, it is because the alarm sounded too loud to ignore.

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