'Keep Mouth Shut'...Brazil President Lashes out at Leonardo DiCaprio

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lashed out at Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio for calling on Brazilians to vote for pro-climate candidates.

Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection in October, made the comments during a speech to supporters in front of his official residence in Brasilia on Tuesday.

"Now, DiCaprio has to know that it was the very president of the World Trade Organization who said that without Brazilian agribusiness, the world would be hungry," Bolsonaro said, according to CNN.

"So, DiCaprio better keep his mouth shut instead of talking nonsense," he added.

His remarks come after DiCaprio encouraged voter registration among young Brazilians in several posts on his official Twitter account — some of which were written in Portuguese.

https://twitter.com/LeoDiCaprio/status/1519767667363790848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1519767667363790848%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F05%2F04%2Famericas%2Fbolsonaro-dicaprio-amazon-deforestation-climate-intl%2Findex.html

"Brazil is home to the Amazon and other ecosystems critical to climate change," he wrote last week. "What happens there matters to us all, and youth voting is key in driving change for a healthy planet."

This is not the first time Bolsonaro has publicly lashed out at DiCaprio.

In 2019, the Brazilian president accused the actor of funding nonprofit groups that he claimed were responsible for fires in the Amazon. He did not provide evidence for this allegation.