“The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset,” de Sousa said, according to the Portugal Pulse’s report. “He operates as an asset.”

The President of Portugal, one of the parties of the treaty of Tordesillas, ruling country of half the New World with the benediction of the pope, top sardine fisher, main exporter of Cristiano Ronaldos, and foremost port wine producer.

Great headline. It's the only one that reaches instead of sanewashing.

And also he defined that term very specifically. He said only that Trump is acting in the best interests of Russia. When someone normally uses that language, they mean they are in the employ of a country, like a spy.

So, it's meant to be inflammatory and spur action on the part of the US and Europe.

Unlike much clickbait, this one is true.

This president is no joke, remember his epic handshake? https://youtu.be/sfrbogBg9dA

Would be funnier if it was Putin.

Furthermore, PPD/PSD is not the Socialist Party (that's PS), it is the Popular Democratic Party/Social Democratic Party, but Montenegro's wing (current PM of Portugal) is neoliberal, unlike Rio's wing that still lived up to the name social democratic.

Portugal the country, or Portugal the Man?

Also the Anglo-Portuguese treaty of 1373. Still in effect today. This isn't a nothing treaty, according to Wikipedia it was activated during the Falklands war. Though Great Britain may not be the power they once were, they still have sway with a lot of the world. I don't really know where I'm going with this other than to say Portugal has friends.

Xi wouldn't like that.

Trump is Putin's, but

Putin is Xi's.

!boneappletea

Who has a crush on him?

I live in southwest Ontario and in Strathroy there's a large Portuguese community and our small town caker asses call them "pork and cheese". They take it in stride lol

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is center-right, so more alligned with the democrats in the US, not with the Neonazi party that calls themselves conservative.

I wouldn't vote him, but calling him a fascist is pretty far off reality.

Why do you mention so many people but not him? Wtf does Ronaldo have to do with anything?

Marcelo is a neoliberal, a bit more socially conservative. In America current political landscape he would still be closer to democrats like Newsom.

Here we see a homo sapiens partaking in Whataboutism. He thinks bad stuff cancel each other out.

He also thinks unless you are a "VERY NICE AS A PERSON" master chef, you cannot critize food since what would you know, with your personality?

He's head of a western european state of 10M people. Portugal is mid-tier when it comes to most metrics In the EU, but they're not no-one.

If an American doesn't say, "Who?" when you say their name, then they're a world power.

I must ask, why did you focus on Portugal part of this article?
Surely the most important part is that a world leader called another world leader a russian asset?

Idk if I’d call Portugal a major world power.

Clickbait title.

That's why they used this term. If it were any place that you would unquestionably call a major world power, then they would have used the name on the title.