Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday (17) that US President Donald Trump did “something outrageous” by suggesting a kind of new tariff hike for Brazil amid ongoing negotiations between the two countries, according to a note from "Agência Brasil". “I think what he did was outrageous to Brazil. He knows that. That's why I said he continues to act like an emperor. We were making agreements,” he said in a press conference after the end of the G7 summit in Évian, France. Asked if he had spoken with Trump during the summit, Lula said he had not requested a bilateral meeting with the US president because both countries are still in the negotiation phase. “There was no reason to ask for a bilateral meeting. We are negotiating.” “When the negotiation is over, if nothing comes of it, I have no problem picking up the phone, calling Trump and scheduling another conversation. I was born into the political world negotiating. From a very young age, my life has been about negotiating with people as powerful as him.”
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.