President Donald Trump posted on social media platform Truth Social that Brazil is “doing a terrible thing” in its treatment of Jair Bolsonaro, who will stand trial on charges of trying to stage a

Bolsonaro never conceded that he had lost, but according to NPR, he did not block the transfer of power and never outright claimed that he had won the election, as Trump did in 2020 after losing the election to former President Joe Biden. Instead, Bolsonaro left the country for the United States to avoid participating in Lula's inauguration.

After Donald Trump condemned Brazil’s trial of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian officials pushed back sharply. Minister Gleisi Hoffmann said the US President had “plenty” of issues himself and no right to meddle in Brazil’s judiciary.