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Brazil’s First Lady makes open joke at key target of her husband’s administration: ‘F…k you Elon Musk’

Brazil’s First Lady makes open joke at key target of her husband’s administration: ‘F…k you Elon Musk’

First Lady of Brazil She turned heads when she dropped the f-bomb towards Tesla CEO Elon Musk during a formal event over the weekend.

Then-Brazil First Lady Janja Lula da Silva was speaking out about misinformation on social media during a pre-G20 social event on Saturday. The G20 summit started in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

Lula, who is married to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, stopped mid-speech when she heard a ship’s horn blaring in the distance.

“I think it’s Elon Musk,” the First Lady joked in Portuguese. “By the way, I’m not afraid of you.”

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Janja Lula da Silva made an open joke about Elon Musk over the weekend ahead of the G20 summit.

“F-damn, Elon Musk,” Lula said in English, causing the audience to cheer.

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The clip published on X caught the attention of Musk, who responded with laughing emojis.

“They will lose the next election,” the entrepreneur wrote.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine Erdoğan were welcomed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his wife Janja Lulu da Silva while taking a photo at the G20 Leaders Summit held in Rio de Janeiro on November 17. , 2024.

Brazil banned X in September, sparking worldwide outrage. Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes imposed the ban, citing false information about X, which the judge felt was not adequately vetted on the platform.

The country lifted the ban a month later, and de Moraes wrote that the decision was “conditional on (X’s) full compliance with Brazilian law and absolute compliance with Judicial decisions out of respect for national sovereignty.”

“X is proud to return to Brazil,” X said in a statement at the time. “Ensuring tens of millions of Brazilians have access to our indispensable platform has been crucial throughout this entire process. We will continue to defend freedom of expression within the limits of the law wherever we operate.”

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Janja Lula da Silva speaks to his supporters at a meeting of artists, politicians and other personalities one week before the presidential election at Auditório Celso Furtado on September 26, 2022 in São Paulo, Brazil.

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The Brazilian First Lady’s joke came two days before the G20 summit officially started. President Biden He was present at the summit but did not appear during the meeting. annual family photo The White House said he was with other world leaders and missed the photo op “due to logistical reasons.”

Reuters and Associated Press contributed to this report.

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