Shocker if true (Trump & Bolsonaro):

[tblue37]

If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….

— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-11-25T14:36:07.974Z

The last 3 sentences are especially telling.

[B.See]

1. meaning "shocked and disappointed" as if

feeling the cold grim hand of a padlocked cell reach up and grab him by the azz??

[stumpysbear]

2. Envious of Brasil's Supreme Court

nfm

[COL Mustard]

5. Don't worry...

I'm sure Trump will give him a pardon!

/s, obviously

[jfz9580m]

6. Merrick Garland would disapprove of all this unseemly haste

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Good for Brazil. It is so nice to see Bolsanaro at least get his just desserts…

[Joinfortmill]

3. Bolsonaro gets 27 years in prison. And Trump? He'll likely get his pension and golf in sunny Florida.

[travelingthrulife]

8. He has made billions through his grifting with our public funds.

[poozwah]

4. memories

reminds one of hiyler and mussolini, doesn’t it?

[peacebuzzard]

7. harboring a fugitive criminal and plotting

a safe haven for an escaped convict is completely fine with Humpty Dumpty.
But how he would have pulled that off is totally unclear.
And completely illegal.
The Brazilian police would have no fear in going after him either by air or ground.

I suppose Bolsonaro's cushy house arrest is over now.
yes, this actually happened.

[travelingthrulife]

9. I thought I was joking when I asked when he would arrive in Florida after his arrest.

[peacebuzzard]

10. Bolsonaro had no place to go

our ICE and other rebranded thugs from the Jan 6 and newly minted police thugs are clueless compared to the police tactics in deep south america.
what was this dude thinking? Man, he had it good in his penthouse apt. overlooking the ocean with all the confined space he needed.
Fresh food, clean house, any delight was his.
now that is just a faraway fantasy for him. Who knows which hole they will stick him in now.
Brazil can ground any suspicious aircraft; chase any boat, and airports there are all digital verification for any entry point.
What an idiot.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Maddowblog-White House hedges on Trump's curious claim about his call with Brazil's Bolsonaro

Did the president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.

An amazing new Trump controversy, Part I of II:

- Friday night: Jair Bolsonaro’s son summons a crowd to their family home

- Later Friday night: Bolsonaro takes a soldering iron to his ankle bracelet days before starting a lengthy prison

- Saturday morning: Bolsonaro is re-arrested

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-25T18:35:57.718Z

An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:

- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”

- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-25T18:36:44.390Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-trump-bolsonaro-phone-call

On Friday night, Bolsonaro’s son publicly encouraged the former president’s supporters to come to his home for some kind of previously unannounced protest. Hours later, early Saturday morning, law enforcement officials were notified that Bolsonaro’s ankle monitor had been tampered with. Though it was still on, Brazil’s former president had taken a soldering iron to his tracking device after his son had summoned a crowd to the family’s home.

Bolsonaro’s lawyers said he wasn’t trying to flee (notwithstanding earlier efforts to find a country to escape to) but rather, the former Brazilian president felt unwell because of the medications he was on.

So according to his own defenders, this guy took a soldering iron to his ankle monitor because some drugs left him confused.

And it was around this time that the story got even weirder.

Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro last night and plans to meet with him soon

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-22T17:27:27.585Z

......Of course, given the Brazilian was on house arrest and poised to begin a lengthy prison sentence, it was far from clear how, exactly, Trump intended to hang out with him. For all intents and purposes, it would suggest that Trump either was going to make a previously unannounced trip to Brazil, or the American president expected Bolsonaro to make his way to the U.S.

But wait, there’s more.

Link to tweet

So let’s recap:

Friday night: Bolsonaro’s son summons a crowd to their family home.

Later Friday night: Bolsonaro takes a soldering iron to his ankle monitor.

Saturday mornin[g/b]: Bolsonaro is re-arrested.

Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see the Brazilian leader “in the very near future.”

Monday afternoon: The White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he publicly referenced two days earlier.

I can appreciate on a personal level how easy it is to grow inured to the madness surrounding our incumbent American president. But even by Trump standards, this one’s a doozy.