The Argentine president doubles in Trump’s support, attends the Mar-A-Lago event while the world reacts to rates

As part of his enthusiastic he reaches Mr. Trump, Argentine President Javier Milei It flew from one of the southernmost nations on the planet to Palm Beach for 24 hours to receive an award in honor of his libertarian agenda and, he expected, to Talk with Mr. Trumpwhich was also Scheduled to attend The right -American Patriot “gala.

“Make Argentina great again!” Milei sprinkles from the dance lounge stage in Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night.

Would have been the fourth face to face among leaders From Trump’s electoral victory last November as President Milei, who imposed a radical austerity program to fix Argentina’s long problematic economy, is offered as one of Mr. Trump’s strongest allies in the global cultural war against the “left.”

It remains to be seen if Milei’s firm alliance with Trump can help Argentina affected by the crisis, analysts say.

“It has a special relationship with Trump that has been good for him politically, but he needs to translate that it is good for the country economically,” said Marcelo J. García, director of the Americas of the geopolitical risk consultant with headquarters in New York, Horizon Engage. “He hasn’t managed to do that yet.”

Earl this year, Milei took Argentina from the World Health Organization after the United States announced its own departure.

Threatened to leave Paris’s climate agreement After Trump did. Forced gender change treatments for minors after Mr. Trump prohibited transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports. He even promoted a cryptocurrency token Echoing the memecoin of $ Trump, at great political cost. In the case of Milei, the Cryptocoin Libra collapsed and left investors holding the stock market, for a sum of $ 250 million. He later admitted that he published about the currency without properly investigating the details.

Milei has also reduced government spending, similar to what Trump and Elon Musk have done with the government’s efficiency department. He has reduced government spending in Argentina by more than 30% since he assumed the position in 2023 eliminating approximately a dozen government agencies, dismissing 10% of the federal workforce and freezing state wages and pensions. While the cuts have reduced the country’s hyperinflation, unemployment and poverty rates have increased. Weekly protests have been held criticizing cuts.

The cuts were something promised Milei while running for a position, even holding a chainsaw during his campaign. Then he gave a song of musk A modeled giant chainsaw After the electric tool. Musk greeted the chainsaw during the comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Hunting against socialism and feminism in speech events worldwide, even in CPAC, Milei has become a kind of Maga celebrity.

The Argentine government reacts to Trump’s tariffs

While the partners and their rivals of the United States criticized Mr. Trump’s rates, a milei dressed in tuxedo was holding next to a painting of the fist bombarded by Mr. Trump, delighting in the opportunity to demonstrate that he is a stubborn champion of the US president.

“As you can see, we carry out policies with actions, not mere words, and on that we agree with President Donald Trump,” Milei told the multitude of mar-a-lago, attracting cheers in the name of the name of US President while speaking in Spanish.

In Buenos Aires, the Milei government sought to reconcile the main round of Trump tariffs with its own radical libertarian ideology and fervent free trade support.

“We do not believe that 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 all the mutual compliments of the leaders, Argentina received a minimum rate of 10%. But the officials framed him as a unique preferential treatment. The cover of the largest circulation newspaper in Argentina, Clarín, declared: “Trump raises the tax on our products less than in other countries.”

In Washington, the Argentine Foreign Minister, Gerardo Werthein, celebrated on Thursday what he described as “highly productive” meetings with the main American commercial negotiator Jamieson Greer and the secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who releases pink statements that promised that Argentina was on the way to negotiating a free trade agreement with the United States with the US.

Milei praised progress towards free treatment in his Mar-A-Lago speech. But much more important for the Argentine leader is an expected rescue of $ 20 billion with the International Monetary Fund. The evil cash would help Milei maintain its ambitious economic reforms along the way as the pressure on the few currency reserves in the country increases.

Milei has already used executive powers to eliminate the need for Congress to approve a new IMF program. But the loan has not eliminated the finish line, with the negotiators who still regate on how much Argentine cash, a series morbone that owes about $ 44 billion to the bottom, can access the weather.

It was in this context on Wednesday that Milei, accompanied by its Minister of Economy, got on the plane to the United States, most interested in the fund. He told reporters that he expected “an informal meeting” with Trump, who was instrumental during his first term to help Argentina obtain a large loan of $ 56 billion from the fund in 2018.

But on Friday, Milei’s highly anticipated photograph with Mr. Trump was nowhere in the amount assembly of his Argentine president publicist taking selfies with fans on the red carpet of Mar-A-Lago.

The president’s office said nothing about his meeting, or not meeting, with Trump, and did not respond to multiple requests for comments.

Trump arrived in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach very late on Thursday night 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 Argentine newspapers cited anonymous officials who say that leaders never met, attracting the instant contempt of their political enemies.

“When I woke up, I thought about finding photography with your ‘friend’ Trump that you went to look,” said former leftist president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on social networks. “What a way to waste time and spend money at all.”

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