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A Bolsonaro idol, Trump once again uses Brazil as a negative example in the fight against the pandemic.

"There are countries that are suffering proportionally much more than we are. Look at Brazil," said the President of the United States in an interview.

Trump treats Brazil as a guinea pig and encourages Bolsonaro to continue with his chloroquine rhetoric (Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Forum Magazine - While Jair Bolsonaro idolizes Donald Trump and seeks to emulate the US president, the US leader is taking the opposite approach. This Wednesday (5), Trump once again cited Brazil as a bad example in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

“If you watch fake news on television, they don’t even talk about it, but you know, there are 188 other countries that are suffering proportionally much more than we are, just as bad as we are… Right now Spain is having a huge increase, and there’s a tremendous problem in the world. You look at Moscow, look what’s happening in Moscow, look at Brazil, look what’s happening in these countries,” Trump said in an interview on an HBO program.

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