Daily Mail - 27.08.2019

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On Facebook a

Bolsonaro supporter

posts a photograph

of the Brazilian and

French presidents

and their wives

Referring to the

row between the

presidents, the

supporter says:

‘It’s jealousy president

from Macron; you

can believe it.’

His photograph (left)

is captioned: ‘Now you

understand why Macron

is persecuting

Bolsonaro?’

President Bolsonaro

replies: ‘Do not

humiliate the guy

ha ha ha.’

Mr Macron calls the

comments ‘rude’ at

the G7 summit, adding:

‘Brazilian women are

probably feeling

ashamed of their

president.’

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E inveja presidente

do macron pode cre.

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Mrs Macron

mocked by

Bolsonaro as

leaders’ feud

gets personal

at high school. She has

admitted she does not like

being called a ‘cougar’, say-

ing: ‘I was always attracted

to men my age. Emmanuel

was an exception.’

The Brazilian first lady

is Mr Bolsonaro’s third

wife. The president’s eld-

est son is a year older than

his stepmother.

The French and Brazilian

leaders have been locked in a

diplomatic spat over the fires

tearing through the Amazon.

Mr Macron is spearheading

efforts for an international

effort to tackle the fires and

called for emergency talks by

G7 nations over the weekend

at the Biarritz summit.

Critics have blamed the cri-

sis on Mr Bolsonaro’s anti-

environmental rhetoric and

intentions to develop the

Amazon region.

Mr Bolsonaro, whose coun-

try is not in the G7, has in

turn accused Mr Macron of a

‘colonialist mentality’. He

said the French leader’s

‘improper’ attacks on the

Amazon were ‘unreasonable’.

In July, Mr Bolsonaro can-

celled a meeting with

French foreign minister

Jean-Yves Le Drian – get-

ting a haircut instead.

The row has seen other Bra-

zilian politicians, including

Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo,

take pot-shots at Mr Macron.

Education minister Abraham

Weintraub called him ‘an

opportunist idiot’ and ‘a pres-

ident without character’ in a

flurry of tweets on Sunday.

On Friday Mr Bolsonaro

Jr, who is tipped to be the

next ambassador to Wash-

ington, retweeted a video

showing violent yellow-vest

protests in France head-

lined ‘Macron is an idiot’.

BRAZIL’S controversial

president Jair Bolsonaro has

mocked his French counter-

part Emmanuel Macron’s

wife after weeks of feuding

between the two leaders.

Mr Bolsonaro – who has been

dubbed the ‘Trump of the Trop-

ics’ – commented on a photo of

himself and his 37-year-old wife

Michelle alongside another of Mr

Macron and his wife Brigitte, 66.

The pictures were posted on Face-

book by one of the Brazilian’s sup-

porters, accompanied by the cap-

tion: ‘Now you understand why

Macron is persecuting Bolsonaro?’

Mr Bolsonaro, 64, then appeared

to endorse the sexist nature of the

post, responding with: ‘Do not

humiliate the man, ha ha ha.’

Mr Macron, who has blamed Mr

Bolsonaro for the fires now raging

through the Amazon and accused

‘He said very

disrespectful things’

His crude taunt

on Facebook

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him of lying about climate change

policy, hit back angrily.

Asked about the incident in Biar-

ritz, where world leaders had been

gathered for a G7 summit, the

French president described the

remarks as ‘extraordinarily rude’.

‘He said very disrespectful things

about my wife,’ Mr Macron added.

‘It’s sad, it’s sad first of all for him

and for Brazilians.

‘Brazilian women are probably

feeling ashamed of their president.

Since I have a lot of esteem and

respect for the people of Brazil, I

hope they will very soon have a pres-

ident who is up to the job.’

Mrs Macron met her husband,

who at 41 is 25 years her junior,

when she was his drama teacher

First lady:

Brigitte Macron

in Biarritz

yesterday