Valuetainment - July 16, 2025


“I Know The CROOKED Ones!” - Trump DEFENDS Bolsonaro Over Brazil's BRUTAL Persecution

Topics
economic sanctions
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Eduardo Bolsonaro Jair Bolsonaro Dylan Ayrton Senna Vinny Adam Mauricio Claver-Carone Giuseppe Lavazza Steve Bannon Marco Rubio Javier Malay Politico Arabica Mamdani Afuera Trump Lula Pele
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235

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Trump's Brazil Tariffs are part of a bigger geopolitical dispute, and he's trying to find a way to get his point across to the Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro. President Trump wants to impose a 50% tax on Brazilian soybeans, a move that could have a negative impact on the Brazilian economy.

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00:00:00.220 Trump's Brazil tariff threat is part of a bigger geopolitical dispute, and he's trying to find a way.
00:00:07.100 Rob, if you've got a clip on this one, if you want to pull it up, I think you do, if you can go to it.
00:00:12.100 This is about the Brazil thing on page 7.
00:00:14.520 So let me read this to you, because this is when it's getting tricky, but I like what he's doing.
00:00:19.920 Go for it, Rob.
00:00:23.280 Do you plan to be talking to the Brazilian president about the tariffs?
00:00:27.160 Maybe at some point I'll talk to him. Right now, I'm not.
00:00:30.660 They're treating President Bolsonaro very unfairly. He's a good man.
00:00:34.540 You know, I know him well. I negotiated with him.
00:00:37.860 He was a very tough negotiator, and I can tell you he was a very honest man, and he loved the people of Brazil.
00:00:43.700 He was a very tough guy to negotiate with.
00:00:46.040 I shouldn't like him, because he was very tough in negotiation, but he was also very honest.
00:00:52.160 And I know the honest ones, and I know the crooked ones.
00:00:55.300 The car's right there.
00:00:57.460 So President Trump threatened a 50% terror from Brazil, driven by his support for Bolsonaro and frustration with Brazil rolling bricks, a coalition, 0.75
00:01:07.500 which he views as a threat due to its push for reserve currency alternative to the U.S. dollar.
00:01:13.500 Trump wrote on Truth Social, this is nothing more or less than an attack on political opponents, something I know a lot about,
00:01:18.740 and accused Brazil of issuing hundreds of secret and unlawful censorship orders on U.S. social media platforms.
00:01:24.400 The decision, followed by BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, which Mauricio Clever-Caron, a close ally to Secretary Marco Rubio and Trump's former Special Envoy Latin, said, tipped the scale.
00:01:37.740 And obviously, while this is going on, there's a bunch of other decisions being made with New York Times even came out on a story talking about behind Trump's decision to tax Brazil.
00:01:47.860 To say Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro, his son, good guy, 41 years old, he's a sitting Brazilian congressman and son of Bolsonaro,
00:01:55.240 has been lobbying U.S. officials, claiming the Brazil Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, not a good guy,
00:02:02.320 is targeting him and his father for fighting a stolen election, prompting Trump to post online.
00:02:07.700 This is nothing more or less than an attack on a political opponent, something I know a lot about, which happens to me times 10.
00:02:15.100 And so they're driving this.
00:02:17.820 Now, obviously, Trump's decision to impose tariffs, described by Steve Bannon as, I love it, and a more move, even he hadn't considered, was made alone,
00:02:27.180 according to two people familiar with the private meeting, with Bannon stating, if you drop the trial and drop the charges, the tariffs go away.
00:02:33.940 Tom, your thoughts on this?
00:02:35.220 Well, you know, it's interesting.
00:02:36.420 Both the New York Times and Politico, you know, want to call it tariffs because they could point at the president. 0.98
00:02:41.980 Well, you know, screw you both. 0.54
00:02:44.260 Screw you both, Politico and New York Times, because you know the word you should be using here? 0.99
00:02:49.760 You should be using three words, economic sanctions and leadership.
00:02:55.100 When around the world countries behave badly, the United States has shown up with these two words, economic sanctions,
00:03:04.040 and it's because of leadership.
00:03:06.620 And that's exactly what the president is doing here.
00:03:09.340 Oh, more tariffs going to create problems, more tariffs.
00:03:12.540 The tariff is merely a tool of the economic sanction, and tariffs have been part of economic sanctions forever.
00:03:18.880 There's two big things in your arsenal you can use.
00:03:21.820 You can use a blockade, and you can use tariffs, which cuts off oxygen to the economy of the party that's offending.
00:03:30.620 You know, like when, you know, Iraq invades Kuwait, and you're like, okay, man, we're going to come in and save them,
00:03:37.820 or we're going to, you know, have a blockade carrier.
00:03:40.480 This is not going to end well for you, dude.
00:03:42.820 We're taking economic sanctions.
00:03:44.380 And so the president, in the name of free elections and in the name of thwarting the false, phony, monkey trial and false imprisonment of Bolsonaro,
00:03:56.040 is trying to get their opinion.
00:03:57.980 And let me tell you, it's not going to take much because he's about to get their opinion.
00:04:02.620 The other thing is they're trying to line up with – there's a very interesting thing in BRICS,
00:04:08.540 and it's right in the middle of BRICS, and it's the I for India.
00:04:12.680 India's trying to play nice on one hand.
00:04:14.740 On the other hand, they're part of BRICS.
00:04:16.820 And so South Africa is South Africa. 0.65
00:04:19.360 I said, but Brazil, you know, they're getting their attention, and he's getting their attention.
00:04:25.860 But this is economic sanctions.
00:04:27.400 This isn't tariffs.
00:04:28.400 Tariff is just a tool.
00:04:29.540 He's going after it, and he's trying to do this in the name of freedom, in the name of free elections, in the name of thwarting it.
00:04:35.200 The question is, is it going to work?
00:04:36.260 That's the question.
00:04:36.960 Will it work or will it not work?
00:04:38.560 Are the Brazilian people going to do anything about it? 0.98
00:04:41.380 Is Alexandre de Moura really going to give a shit about the 50%? 0.97
00:04:44.820 The number that came out with the story that you see combined with the story, and Adam, I'm going to come to you. 0.98
00:04:50.860 Coffee prices climb after Trump's threatened 50% tariff on Brazil.
00:04:56.800 And so the economy is going to take a hit with that.
00:05:00.500 Buyers are going to feel it.
00:05:02.560 The 50% tariff is the world's biggest coffee producer starting August 1st.
00:05:07.320 As stated in a letter posted on Truth Social on Wednesday, accusing Brazil government of attacking free speech.
00:05:13.100 Arabica coffee prices in New York climbed more than 3.5% on Thursday morning, later settled around 2.5% higher, with a trader noting the letter is sending shockwaves across the coffee industry due to U.S.'s Brazil main coffee bar.
00:05:26.120 However, Giuseppe Lavazza, chair of Lavazza Group, which owns Lavazza Coffee, warned on Wednesday before Trump's Brazil tariff threat, the tariffs between U.S. and coffee producing countries like Brazil and Vietnam would be challenging, stating the problem is to have tariffs between U.S. and Brazil, U.S. and Vietnam, U.S. and all other countries where coffee is produced, predicting a rise in the cost of coffee in the U.S.
00:05:45.980 U.S. by approximately 34%.
00:05:48.380 So we'll see what's going to happen with this one here.
00:05:51.060 Adam, your thoughts on this, you know, exchange with Brazil.
00:05:54.000 So I actually have a question for you, why you've been so focused on Brazil.
00:05:59.600 Because born and raised in Miami, I have a lot of Brazilian friends.
00:06:02.960 When I think of Brazil, I think of three things.
00:06:04.460 It's soccer, beautiful samba beats, and massive corruption.
00:06:10.200 Massive corruption.
00:06:11.620 Everyone I know who goes to Brazil, they're like, oh, you got to be careful. 1.00
00:06:14.260 You got to have security.
00:06:15.560 Be careful from the favelas.
00:06:16.780 If you go to the beach, it's incredible.
00:06:18.500 And you know what?
00:06:19.340 Just never been a thing on my thing.
00:06:20.640 I don't focus on Brazil at all.
00:06:22.460 But I've learned from you when you sat down with Jair Bolsonaro, when you had an entire Brazilian panel on it.
00:06:29.600 Why is it so important to you?
00:06:31.020 Because there's multiple countries in Latin America.
00:06:34.720 We hopefully keep them from going the way of El Salvador, Mexico, or Guatemala, these countries that are coming here. 1.00
00:06:43.980 Lula, socialist.
00:06:46.240 We've seen what's going on there.
00:06:47.840 Jair Bolsonaro has been called Trump of the tropics.
00:06:50.680 I want to understand why Brazil has been so important to you on this program.
00:06:55.180 Yeah, I mean, for me, I named my daughter after Ayrton Senna.
00:06:58.400 Now, this morning I'm walking in a community.
00:07:01.520 This lady who's a worker in a community, I notice she pulls up the car and she parks right in front of me. 0.99
00:07:05.880 And she keeps driving in front of me.
00:07:07.100 And I'm like, whoa.
00:07:08.420 So then all of a sudden my paranoid radar is like, okay, something's about to happen.
00:07:12.400 So I'm ready now.
00:07:13.000 I don't know who's in the car.
00:07:14.480 Then she gets out of the car.
00:07:15.560 Then she starts walking up to me. 0.98
00:07:17.360 I'm like, okay, at least she's got a smile on her face.
00:07:20.120 Probably in her mid to late 40s.
00:07:22.640 And I said, hi.
00:07:23.500 She says, hi.
00:07:24.740 She said, I just want to tell you, we really appreciate what you're doing for Brazil.
00:07:27.980 This is this morning at 6.30, 7 a.m. in the morning.
00:07:29.860 Yeah.
00:07:30.040 I said, oh, thanks.
00:07:31.120 She said, my son never misses a single show that you do.
00:07:33.640 He watches everything.
00:07:35.220 And I said, well, thank you.
00:07:37.160 And I said, Jair, Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo, all this stuff.
00:07:40.780 She said, I watch all of them.
00:07:42.140 You know, we appreciate what you got going on for Brazil.
00:07:43.920 I told her about my daughter being named Senna.
00:07:46.320 I love Brazilians.
00:07:48.260 They're such incredible people.
00:07:50.140 I enjoy their company.
00:07:51.340 They're loud.
00:07:52.560 They're funny.
00:07:53.340 They're fun.
00:07:54.400 They're good to be around.
00:07:55.480 The food, the jokes, the sarcasm, the soccer, the racing, the history.
00:07:59.720 It's a great experience. 0.62
00:08:01.380 And it's another place that when shitty politics get a hold of a great country, they destroy a great nation.
00:08:08.880 As a kid, when you grow up in Iran, the number one sport in the world was football in Iran. 0.78
00:08:14.420 You followed everything with soccer.
00:08:16.540 You always knew the names.
00:08:17.760 You knew Pele.
00:08:19.420 The other day, Dylan had a meeting with the former captain of the Brazilian national team, Emerson.
00:08:24.500 Emerson, I don't know if you tap in Emerson, Brazil soccer.
00:08:27.020 He's a legend.
00:08:28.000 And Emerson spent a few hours with Dylan.
00:08:30.040 And he's grabbing Dylan's calves.
00:08:31.480 And he's like, he's got soccer legs.
00:08:33.160 He's got soccer legs.
00:08:34.600 Emerson, OG Emerson, old school Emerson.
00:08:38.340 Just tap in Emerson, Brazil captain.
00:08:40.320 And, you know, captain, if you tap in, yeah, you should come up.
00:08:44.260 That's the one right there.
00:08:45.200 Yeah, this guy was a G.
00:08:46.120 I mean, he was a legend in what he did, winning multiple World Cups, I believe, when he was out there.
00:08:51.960 Maybe one or two.
00:08:52.740 He won a couple of them.
00:08:53.540 You said that when you went to Brazil and you did the interview.
00:08:56.720 Yeah, Brasilia.
00:08:57.520 Brasilia.
00:08:57.920 Describe that city and, like, the communist background of that city.
00:09:01.980 They built it in such a communistic way where everything looks the same.
00:09:06.380 And they built it away from everything.
00:09:08.680 So if they ever want to protest to go to the government, it's so far that nobody wants to go to it.
00:09:13.400 Oh, weird.
00:09:13.760 It's not a place you want to.
00:09:14.900 Vinny, did you go with us?
00:09:16.140 I didn't go.
00:09:16.720 Did you go with us?
00:09:17.560 Who went with us when we went there?
00:09:18.620 No, no, no.
00:09:19.400 Well, let me tell you, man.
00:09:20.620 While we're at the airport coming back, you're telling the story.
00:09:23.540 We're waiting 12 hours at the airport.
00:09:25.300 Rob, you were there, right?
00:09:26.280 Yes.
00:09:26.560 Yes, 12 hours we're waiting at the airport to leave.
00:09:30.120 And we have a direct flight to Miami.
00:09:32.540 Last minute, people are worried about what's going on.
00:09:34.600 We just ended up flying to Peru.
00:09:36.280 Really?
00:09:36.600 We ended up flying to Peru, and then we flew from Peru to here because it was, you know,
00:09:40.740 we have security with us.
00:09:41.800 The security is waiting.
00:09:42.740 It was a very weird place to be.
00:09:44.580 But the people, phenomenal. 0.82
00:09:46.780 The food, ridiculous. 0.87
00:09:49.040 We went to this one joint we ate. 0.84
00:09:51.280 I just, I can't wait to go back.
00:09:52.840 Except I'd like to go back when Brazil is free again. 0.79
00:09:56.000 Not held hostage by the scandal.
00:09:57.980 I have one more question for you on this.
00:09:59.740 We consistently see certain countries in Latin America that, no matter what, keep going back to socialist policies.
00:10:11.180 Like, you see what happened in some of the numbers that have come out of Argentina lately with some, what's our friend's name over there, Javier Mele, Afuera, about how he's basically reversed sort of the unemployment, the inflation, all the economic numbers, the housing, everything like that.
00:10:27.360 What he's been able to do in Argentina.
00:10:29.600 Why consistently, in some countries, in Latin America specifically, do they keep going back to this BS socialist policy?
00:10:36.780 I'll keep it simple, and I'll go to my next story that has to do with this.
00:10:39.460 Because manipulating, brainwashing, and owning the poor is a great business model that they use everywhere around the world, and they're easy to control.
00:10:52.220 Because you use the most magical four-letter word that starts with the letter F, and it's so effective.
00:10:58.540 There is no more powerful word to own a group of people than dropping that F-bomb.
00:11:06.660 We're going to give you free programs, free health care, free food.
00:11:10.040 Oh, my God.
00:11:11.420 That F word gets a hold of everybody, and it brings the worst people in power and destroys an entire nation.
00:11:19.660 And this is the one that you're talking about with numbers that we saw on December 10th of 2023.
00:11:24.280 Mele becomes the first libertarian president.
00:11:26.300 The leftists freak out.
00:11:27.440 One and a half year later, this is what the numbers look like.
00:11:31.220 Brought monthly inflation down from 25.5% to 1.5% of five-year low.
00:11:35.440 Brought the poverty rate down to an estimated 33.7% six-year low.
00:11:41.560 Scrapped rent controls, resulting in a 40% decrease in rent prices in Buenos Aires.
00:11:46.120 Achieved Argentina's first budget surplus in 14 years.
00:11:49.100 Delivered 7.6% year-over-year GDP growth in Q2 of 2025.
00:11:52.760 And guess who is trying to do all the policies that he fixed in New York City?
00:11:57.940 A guy named Mamdani.
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00:12:59.220 No, Vinny, give me the gray one.
00:13:00.540 Yeah, the black on black on black.
00:13:01.980 All right, thanks.
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