U.S. President Donald Trump said he had not been informed about the arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday.

Brazil's federal police on Saturday arrested Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

Trump was asked outside the White House on Saturday about Bolsonaro’s arrest, but said that was the first he was hearing of it.

“Is that what happened? That’s too bad,” he said.

Pressed for further comment, he said: “I just think it’s too bad."

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversaw the case on Bolsonaro’s attempt to keep the presidency after his defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022, ordered the preemptive arrest after saying the far-right leader’s ankle monitor was violated at 12:08 a.m. on Saturday. His lawyers claimed in a statement that did not take place.

A report by custody agents released later in the day — and reviewed by The Associated Press — said Bolsonaro admitted using a soldering iron to try to open the device.

The preemptive arrest of Bolsonaro, who is an ally of Trump, will be discussed and voted on Monday by the five-justice Supreme Court panel that both convicted and sentenced him to prison by 4 votes to 1 in September.