Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sparked outrage by sharing a video on Twitter that shows one man urinating on the head of another man during a Carnival party.
Mr Bolsonaro made the post on Tuesday night criticising the freewheeling celebrations of Carnival, which many Brazilian conservatives like himself detest as heathen and immoral.
The far-right president was one of the main targets of revellers’ mockery during this week’s Carnival, a time when samba schools and organisers of thousands of street parties traditionally take politicians to task.
Mr Bolsonaro’s post — which has since been taken down — included video of a Sao Paulo street party in which a man wearing a jockstrap touches himself sexually then lowers his head while another man urinates on him.
Mr Bolsonaro wrote, “I feel uncomfortable showing it, but we have to expose the truth for the population to know and always make its priorities.”
“This is what many street parties in Brazil’s Carnival have become. Comment and draw your conclusions,” he added.
The tweet quickly garnered tens of thousands of comments, many sharply critical of the post.
“You need medical help urgently,” tweeted journalist Fabio Pannunzio, who said his six-year-old granddaughter and other children saw the post.
Others jumped in to defend Mr Bolsonaro, arguing children shouldn’t be allowed on Twitter anyway and the President was just showing how debased Carnival celebrations had become.
“The left that shows butts and breasts in the streets, that uses religious symbols for profane acts in the public square, that supports expositions with naked adults for children to touch are now ‘shocked’ by the video shared by the president,” tweeted Joice Hasselmann, a leading congresswoman in Mr Bolsonaro’s party.