Jair Bolsonaro: Attacked Leonardo DiCaprio – Leave your yacht and then preach

Its president Brazil, Zach Bolsonaroverbally attacked the celebrity actor of Hollywood, Leonardo di Caprioon the occasion of a tweet by the latter about its deforestation Amazon.

The Brazilian politician, who recently confirmed he will run again for the country’s presidential election next October, addressed DiCaprio’s stance, telling the actor who has often expressed his views on the climate crisis and is a UN ambassador for climate change and member of the Board of Directors. of the WWF. “Leave your yacht before you preach to the world”Bolsonaro pointed out.

DiCaprio posed the following question to his 19.6 million followers on the social media platform, Twitter, a few days ago: “How extensive is the deforestation of the Amazon, one of the most important places on the planet for people and wildlife?”. The tweet was also posted in Portuguese and as expected became a big topic in the Brazilian media.

“According to this map from @mapbiomas, the region has faced a ‘carnage’ from illegal deforestation over the past three years”wrote DiCaprio who also shared a short video showing the changes the Amazon rainforest has undergone during this time.

“You again, Leo?”Bolsonaro replied and added: “In this way you will become my best pre-election “paper”, as we say in Brazil. I tell you again to leave the boat before you preach to the world, but I know you progressives well: you want to change the whole world, but never yourselves, so I leave you. You too keep playing Hollywood’s games”before continuing his attack on DiCaprio by telling him that he does not deal with the fires burning Europe and the US, but chooses to deal only with Brazil.

Recently, DiCaprio was in St. Tropez, on the French Riviera where the paparazzi spotted him and photographed him on a yacht having fun with his friends.


Source: News Beast

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