Exclusive: Brazil’s president hits back at Trump’s threat of 50% tariffs: He ‘was elected not to be emperor of the world’

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview it was “a surprise” to see President Donald Trump’s letter posted to Truth Social, threatening Brazil with a crippling tariff of 50% starting August 1st. Lula says that he initially thought the letter was “fake news.”