(FILES) (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 20, 2025 shows Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) during an announcement of investment in road improvements at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on January 29, 2025, and US President Donald Trump speaking to the press after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2025.. President Donald Trump and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on May 7, 2026, hailed a positive three-hour meeting in Washington, as the ideological opposites sought to smooth tensions. (Photo by EVARISTO SA and ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)