Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro Shares Explicit ‘Golden Shower’ Video
Attempting to discredit protests against his far-right government.
Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
In a very NSFW move, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, posted a video on Twitter of a man urinating on another man in front of a crowd of people. Bolsonaro posted the sexually explicit video in an apparent effort to discredit Sao Paulo’s annual Carnival celebration, which has attracted protests against his far-right agenda. “I don’t feel comfortable showing it, but we have to expose the truth so the population are aware of their priorities,” Bolsonaro tweeted with the video. “This is what Brazilian carnival street parties have turned into,” he said. The president then followed it up with another tweet in which he wrote only: “What is a golden shower?” Brazilians quickly condemned Bolsonaro’s tweet as a gross misrepresentation of the festival. Witnesses to the incident said it was an isolated incident amid the celebrations, according to Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paolo (FSP).
Bolsonaro is being accused of using the video to discredit the protests against him. Brazilian federal prosecutors recently launched an investigation into suspicious cash payments made into the account of the president’s driver.
O que é golden shower?
— Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) March 6, 2019
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