Our president took a break from yelling at the Federal Reserve—and complaining about "LameStream Media" coverage of his G7 trip, and suggesting it was Fake News that bedbugs were found at the resort in Miami where he wants to hold the next G7, even though the claim comes from a lawsuit the club settled with a guest—to offer a message to Puerto Rico as another tropical storm is headed towards the American territory.

Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto Rico last year, an all time record of its kind for “anywhere.”

Wow! What an absolute ghoul. Of course there was no mention of the human beings—who are also American citizens—who could be in danger as a storm approaches while the island is still recovering from the devastating Hurricane Maria. And of course there was a lie: Congress has not approved $92 billion for PR, CBS News' Dave Begnaud reports, they've allocated $42.7 billion, and only $14 billion has actually made it to the island. Trump has told this lie over and over again because he has brain problems. If he's not going to pretend to care about these American citizens, he could at least do them a favor and nuke the hurricane before it gets to them.

But that was not all. The United States president also found time to offer his public support for Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president who's under international pressure now that the Amazon is on fire after he embraced a program of ruthlessly exploiting the rainforest, which is a giant carbon sink that produces 20 percent of Earth's oxygen.

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I have gotten to know President @jairbolsonaro well in our dealings with Brazil. He is working very hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of Brazil - Not easy. He and his country have the full and complete support of the USA! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019

It's no surprise to see Trump backing another authoritarian leader—it's kind of his thing. We scarcely talk about it anymore, but the President of the United States almost exclusively attacks the democratic leaders of nations that are our traditional allies while paling around with brutish strongmen. The list of the latter includes Kim Jong-un of North Korea, who orchestrates a system of human-rights abuses against his citizens, but also wrote Trump a beautiful letter; Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who's backed extrajudicial executions of anyone accused of running drugs, but whom Trump said is doing an "unbelievable job"; and of course, his Good Friend Vlad.

Bolsonaro, for his part, is a real nasty piece of work. He's spoken of "cleansing" the Brazilian political left, the kind of terminology that never ends well. He told a female Brazilian lawmaker that he "wouldn't rape you because you're not worthy of it," which of course echoes our own president's dismissal of women who've accused him of sexual assault: "She wouldn't be my first choice." More than all that, he openly embraced Brazil's legacy of fascist military dictatorship.

The best of friends. Chris Kleponis Getty Images

Most recently, however, Bolsonaro made a big public show of turning down the (admittedly paltry) $20 million that the G7 countries agreed—without waiting for the American president's input—to send Brazil to battle the wildfires in Brazil. As a reminder, The Intercept notes that "scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s rainforest will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in which the forest begins to dry out and burn in a cascading system collapse, beyond the reach of any subsequent human intervention or regret." According to the AP, Big Baby Bolsonaro says he won't take the money until French President Emmanuel Macron takes back the mean things he said.

Bolsonaro on Tuesday said Macron had called him a liar and he accused the French president of questioning Brazil’s sovereignty amid tensions over fires sweeping the Amazon region.

Bolsonaro says Macron has to retract some of his comments “and then we can speak.” Macron has questioned Bolsonaro’s trustworthiness and commitment to protecting biodiversity.

The AP does not mention that Bolsonaro's Twitter account shared a meme comparing the Brazilian first lady's appearance to that of France's Brigitte Macron—another trope you might remember from the campaign of Donald Trump, American president. So while the Amazon burns, imperiling the planet as a habitat for human civilization as we know it, these authoritarian manbabies will keep throwing feces at each other across the airwaves while other big babies cheer and jeer. They deserve each other. It's the rest of us that don't deserve them.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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