The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, had an altercation with a youtuber on Thursday, who challenged and insulted him, trying to grab his phone while filming the scene, before striking up a conversation with him. News site G1 posted a video of the incident, tagging the YouTuber Wilker Leao, followed by 127,000 people on TikTok and describing himself as a lawyer, army corporal, political junkie.

We see Wilker Leao approaching President Bolsonaro who was greeting his supporters who wanted to take a selfie with him outside the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia and ask him in particular, while filming himself, why he had allied himself with a nebula of parties. who trade the support of him to the advantages, the Centrao.

“Come here, I want to talk to you”

An unidentified person first pushed him aside and knocked him to the ground. The latter got up, approached again, calling the president (who in the meantime had gotten into his car) “coward”, “tramp” and “Centrao whore”.

Jair Bolsonaro then got out of the car and approached the man and tried to grab his phone. “Come here, I want to talk to you,” the president said, grabbing Wilker Leao by the arm and the collar of the soccer jersey he was wearing.

The presidential security service quickly intervened and locked up the youtuber. Several minutes later, Jair Bolsonaro struck up a conversation with him, the two men separated by a line of bodyguards.

“I have to do things in Parliament, don’t I?” the president is heard saying before getting back in his car and driving off.

Jair Bolsonaro, a 67-year-old former army captain, is running for re-election in October against former left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010). Wilker Leao, who regularly posts videos asking supporters of different political parties provocative questions, calls Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT) “in bad shape.”