Brazilian President Bolsonaro: ‘Stop Being A Country Of Sissies, We’re All Gonna Die One Day’

BRASILIA (VINnews) —Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said at a Tuesday press conference that Brazil has to “stop being a country of sissies” and face the pandemic ‘head-on.’ Using the homophobic slur to criticize his countrymen’s fear of coronavirus, Bolsonaro added sentiments which he has expressed in the past regarding the virus, stating that  “Everything now is about the pandemic, this thing has to stop. I’m sorry for the dead, I’m sorry. We’re all gonna die one day, everybody in here is going to die.”

“The headlines tomorrow will say I have no empathy for those who died. I feel for everyone who died, but the pandemic is being blown out of proportion.”

The president also claimed that “everything I was saying about the virus back there, and I was beaten like a mangy dog outside the church, it proves to be true.” Bolsonaro also averred that complaining about hate speech is a ‘sissy thing,’ adding that at his time in school, “bullying was beating. Now if you call a guy fat, it’s bullying.”

Bolsonero also took a swipe at US president-elect, Joe Biden, who is apparently threatening Brazil with sanctions if fires in the Amazon rainforest are not dealt with. Bolsonaro, a close ally of Donald Trump who has yet to call Biden congratulating him on election, said that “I recently heard a presidential candidate from one country say that if I don’t put out the fire in the Amazon, he will raise trade barriers against Brazil. How do we deal with all of this? Diplomacy is not enough. When there is no more saliva, then there must be gunpowder. ”