“They have treated us very badly as a trade partner for many years. One of the worst countries on Earth in that regard. Brazil has been a terrible trade partner in terms of tariffs — as you know, they charge us huge tariffs, much, much higher than what we charge, and, basically, we weren’t even charging anything. Now they are being charged 50% tariffs, and they’re not happy, but that’s how it works.”

“And Brazil has some very bad laws in place. They took a president and put him in prison — or are trying to imprison him. And it so happens that I know the man, and I will tell you, I’m very good at reading people, and I think he is an honest man. I think it’s a political execution what they are trying to do to Bolsonaro. I think it’s terrible.”