This site considers this to be Trump’s strongest statement yet that as of right now, he intends to run for office. Trump wouldn’t sit on the sidelines and just cheer on others with such enthusiasm if he didn’t consider himself also in the same mix, still in a race.
Yes, Trump may go down to Brazil and support Brazil’s own Right-Wing, COVID-denying, Trumpster:
This summer, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, Trump told confidants that he’s open to publicly endorsing Bolsonaro’s reelection, potentially at a mega-rally in Brazil where he and Bolsonaro could appear together side-by-side, to rail against what they each deem undesired election outcomes. Bolsonaro, who is widely expected to decisively fail in his reelection bid next year, has been preemptively spreading groundless claims of election “fraud,” a strategy jarringly reminiscent of Trump’s failed coup in the United States.
President Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo, who serves as a member of the Brazilian parliament and has been described in the U.S. press as the Donald Trump Jr. of Brazil, recently met with Trump, according to a post on the Brazilian lawmaker’s Instagram account. Last month, the younger Bolsonaro posted pictures of himself at Trump Tower standing next to the former president. Gettr, Jason Miller’s attempt at a pro-Trump social media platform, has proven especially popular with conservative Brazilian supporters of Bolsonaro.
So he even comes with a Bolsonaro Junior? And he’s getting his ass kicked in the polls? And he’s an idiot? Wow, the parallels are just breathtaking. But we believe that the real important message to take away from this story is that Trump is still mixing it up and running, himself, or at least he appears to want it right now.
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