Tucker Carlson’s interview with Jair Bolsonaro has yet to air, but both and their supporters are already exploring the images. The host tweeted without text the photo below, with the president’s bookshelf highlighting a puppet of the pilot Nelson Piquet and a logo of Caixa Econômica, involved in cases of prejudice and harassment.
Bolsonaro already used more sober photowith text also contained: “I received at Palácio do Alvorada the presenter of the most watched journalistic program in the USA. We show the world the truth about Brazil, about our government, and I’m sure that once again the truth will set us free” .
Posteriorly, many different videos (played below) spread across social media, with both meeting supporters onwards. Carlson commented that “you need Fox News in Brazil”.
Then a man commented from the audience, “Don’t call me a flathead and that’s it.” Bolsonaro stopped smiling, while the translator explained to the journalist, in English: “‘Don’t call me flat head.’ Flat heads are the guys from the Northeast of Brazil”. [Cabeças-chatas são os caras do Nordeste do Brasil.]
Carlson was suspicious: “Is that a compliment?”.
The translator passed the question to the speaker: “Would that be a compliment?” Everyone laughed, including Bolsonaro, who changed his expression: “Better known as the plague goat”. More laughter as the translator continued explaining the flathead comment to Carlson.
