Thursday, 11 Jun 2020 07:42 AM MYT
BRASILIA, June 11 — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro told an actress to “get out of here” after she criticised his response to the coronavirus pandemic in a gathering outside his official residence yesterday morning. Bolsonaro, who has dismissed the virus as just a “little flu” and ordered state governors to loosen lockdown restrictions, told Bernart to leave, a live YouTube broadcast by a Bolsonaro supporter that was later taken down showed.
“You can see, you have this character speaking rubbish here,” Bolsonaro said, repeating his criticism of state governors for shutting down businesses and causing economic hardship.