Europe has sworn reprisals. China has plotted apart prices. Mexico scrambled To blunder the blow. But while the leaders of the world twisted their hands on the announcement of President Donald Trump of Balayage prices on American importsArgentina’s right-wing president was bubbling, celebrated at the Trump Mar-A-Lago club.
As part of his enthusiastic awareness of Mr. Trump, Argentinian president Javier Milei stole from one of the southern nations on the planet to Palm Beach for 24 hours to receive a prize honoring his libertarian program and, he hoped, from chat with Mr. Trumpwho was also planned to attend The right gala “American Patriot”.
“Make Argentina again!” Milei yelled at the ballroom scene in Mar-A-Lago on Thursday evening.
It was the fourth Face -to -face meeting between leaders Since the electoral victory of Trump last November as President Milei, who imposed a radical austerity program to fix the long economy in difficulty in Argentina, has been one of Mr. Trump’s strongest allies in the world culture war against “alarm clock”.
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It remains to be seen if Milei’s solid alliance with Mr. Trump can actually help to see analysts.
“He has a special relationship with Trump who was good for him politically, but he must translate this to be good for the country on the economic level,” said Marcelo J. García, director of the Americas of the Geopolitical Risks based in New York, Horizon hires. “He has not yet managed to do it.”
Earlier this year, Milei withdrew Argentina from the World Health Organization after the United States announced his own outing.
He threatened to leave the Paris climate agreement After Mr. Trump did. He prohibited gender change treatments for minors after Mr. Trump Transgender athletes prohibited to participate in female sports. He even promoted a cryptocurrency token Echo the $ Trump same – at a large political cost. In the case of Milei, the cryptocoin balance collapsed and left the investors holding the bag, up to 250 million dollars. He later admitted that he posted on the medal without correctly checking the details.
Milei has also reduced public spending, in the same way as Mr. Trump and Elon Musk have done with the government’s Ministry of Effectiveness. It has reduced public spending in Argentina by more than 30% since its entry into office in 2023 by eliminating a dozen government agencies, dismissing 10% of the federal workforce and by freezing the wages and pensions of the States. Although the cuts lowered the country’s hyperinflation, they increased unemployment and poverty rates. Weekly demonstrations were organized by criticizing the cuts.
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The cuts were something Milei promised during his candidacy for his duties, even by brandishing a chainsaw during his campaign. He then gifted musk A modeled giant chainsaw After the electric tool. Musk agitated the chainsaw during remarks at the conservative political action conference.
Railer against socialism and feminism during speaking events around the world – including the CPAC – Milei explained in something of a celebrity Maga.
The Argentinian government reacts to Trump prices
While the American partners and the rivals criticized the prices of Mr. Trump, a Milei dressed in tuxedo was held next to a paint of the pumped fist of Mr. Trump, reveling in the opportunity to prove himself.
“As you can see, we put a policy with actions, no simple words, and we agree with President Donald Trump,” Milei told the crowd of Mar-A-Lago, attracting applause to the name of the American president while he was talking in Spanish.
In Buenos Aires, the Milei government sought to reconcile the main series of Trump prices with his own radical libertarian ideology and his fervent support for free trade.
“We don’t think this is an attack on free trade, quite the opposite,” said Milei spokesman Manuel Adorni about Trump’s announcement. “I don’t see why there should be so much concern about it.”
For the Mutual Flatterie of Managers, Argentina was slapped with a minimum rate of 10%. But those responsible considered it only preferential treatment. The first page of the daily life of the largest circulation in Argentina, Clarín, said: “Trump increases the tax on our products less than on other countries.”
In Washington, the Argentinian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Werthein, held on Thursday what he described as “very productive” meetings with the first American commercial negotiator Jamieson Greer and the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, publishing pink statements promising that Argentina was about to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United States.
Milei praised progress towards free business in his speech by Mar-A-Lago. But much more important for the Argentinian chief is a bailout of $ 20 billion hoped for with the International Monetary Fund. The very necessary species would help Milei to maintain its ambitious economic reforms on the right track as the pressure is on the sparse currency reserves of the country.
Milei has already used executive powers to remove the need for Congress to approve a new IMF program. But the loan has not authorized the finish line, the negotiators still walking on the quantity of liquidity of Argentina, a series clearance which owes some $ 44 billion to the fund, will be authorized to access the front.
It was in this context on Wednesday that Milei, accompanied by his Minister of Economy, jumped on the plane for the United States, the largest part of the fund. He told journalists that he expected an “informal meeting” with Mr. Trump, who played a decisive role in his first mandate by helping Argentina obtain a major loan of $ 56 billion in the fund in 2018.
But Friday, Milei’s eagerly awaited photo with Mr. Trump was nowhere in the smooth assembly of his publicist from the Argentine president who removed selfies with fans on the red carpet of Mar-A-Lago.
The president’s office said nothing about his meeting – or, not against the meeting – with Mr. Trump, and did not respond to several requests for comments.
Trump arrived in Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach very late Thursday evening after attending an event with professional golfers in one of his golf courses near Miami. The White House did not say if he and Milei met.
The main Argentinian newspapers have cited anonymous officials saying that leaders have never met, taking an instant contempt for his political enemies.
“When I woke up, I was thinking of finding the photo on television with your` `friend ” Trump that you went to get,” wrote the former leftist president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on social networks. “What way of playing and spending money for nothing.”