{"id":22380,"date":"2026-05-07T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-trump-lula-avoid-press-tennessee-approves-gop-friendly-map\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:22:11","slug":"live-updates-trump-lula-avoid-press-tennessee-approves-gop-friendly-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-trump-lula-avoid-press-tennessee-approves-gop-friendly-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump, Lula avoid press; Tennessee approves GOP-friendly map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and Brazilian President Luiz In&aacute;cio Lula da Silva met at the White House on Thursday, but the two leaders avoided going before the press in what was supposed to be an on-camera appearance before U.S. and Brazilian journalists. Trump has been a loyal ally of former Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5866499-senate-trump-ballroom-spending\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and Brazilian President Luiz In&aacute;cio Lula da Silva met at the White House on Thursday, but the two leaders avoided going before the press in what was supposed to be an on-camera appearance before U.S. and Brazilian journalists. Trump has been a loyal ally of former Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}