Bolsonaro Suggests Excitement Over Invite to Trump Inauguration Cured His Impotence

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, 69, joked in an interview published Thursday that receiving an invite to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week cured his impotence. “I’m feeling like a kid again with Trump’s invite,” he told The New York Times. “I’m fired up. I’m not even taking Viagra anymore.” Trump’s gesture is something to be proud of, right? Who’s Trump? The most important guy in the world.” Like Trump, the right-wing leader has been accused of trying to overturn an election he lost. Bolsonaro—dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics”—was indicted in November for plotting an alleged coup to stay in power after Brazilian voters opted for his opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the country’s 2022 presidential election. It is unlikely, however, that he’ll make it to see his firebrand American counterpart sworn in next week. Bolsonaro’s passport was taken as part of the probe into the alleged coup, and Brazil’s attorney general recommended that his request to go abroad for Trump’s inauguration be denied. Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice and Bolsonaro critic, decided Thursday that Bolsonaro should not be allowed to travel to Washington, D.C. The former Brazilian leader hinted to the Times that he believes Trump’s influence on global politics might help him stay out of jail. “Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect,” Trump, now 78, told Playboy in 2004, the year he turned 58. “I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky. I don’t need it.”