Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a 50-minute phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump and plans to visit Washington after his trip to South Korea, according to an X post by reporter Renato shared between 5:16 PM and 5:45 PM UTC on Jan. 26, 2026. The post, marked 'URGENT,' stated the trip to Washington will occur on a date to be defined following Lula's South Korea visit, with no further details on the call's timing or topics provided. In a separate development during the same 29-minute reporting window, Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent stated on X that Stephen Miller is looking increasingly isolated inside the White House, as others recognize his immigration policies are hurting Republicans politically, citing a Wall Street Journal report. Sargent wrote, 'We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic reengineering project will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.* That's his real agenda,' linking to a New Republic article.
