Milei Double Argentina on Trump Bromance

Buenos Aires, Argentina (AP) – Europe Retalities tried. China Track of full prices. Mexico blurred to blunder the blow. But While the leaders of the world twisted their hands On President Donald Trump Radical prices announcement On American imports, the right president of Argentina was bubbling, celebrated at the Mar-A-Lago club in Trump.

As part of his enthusiastic awareness of Trump, Argentinian President Javier Milei flew from one of the southern nations of the planet to Palm Beach for 24 hours to receive an honorary award and, he hoped, to chat with Trump, who was also planned to attend the right -wing “American patriot”.

“Make Argentina again!” Milei yelled at the ballroom scene in Mar-A-Lago on Thursday evening.

It would have been the Fourth face -to -face meeting between leaders since Trump’s electoral victory Last November as President Milei, who imposed a Balaying austerity program to correct the long economy in difficulty in ArgentinaOffers as one of Trump’s strongest allies in the World Culture War against the “awakening” left.

Argentina is waiting for Bromance to bear fruit

It remains to be seen if Milei’s solid alliance with Trump can actually help analysts, according to analysts.

“He has a special relationship with Trump which 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 Geopolical Risk Consultancy, based in New York, Horizon hits. “He has not yet managed to do it.”

Earlier this year, Milei has removed Argentina from the World Health Organization After the United States has announced its own outing.

He threatened to leave the Paris climate agreement after Trump did. He Gender change treatments prohibited for minors After Trump forbidden transgender athletes to participate in female sports. He even Promoted a cryptocurrency token echoing the $ Trump same – at Great political cost.

Balustrade against socialism and feminism during speaking events around the world – more recently, the Conservative political action conferencewhere he gifted Elon Musk A giant chain saw Modeled after the power tool he exercised during his campaign in 2023 – Milei explained himself in something of a celebrity Maga.

While the American partners and the rivals criticized Trump’s prices, a milei dressed in tuxedo was holding by a paint of Trump’s pumped fist, reveling in the opportunity to prove himself an obstinate champion of the American president.

“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.

A libertarian defends Trump’s prices

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

“We don’t think it’s 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.

Argentina short of silver for a bailout of the IMF

Much more important for the Argentinian chief than the expected free trade agreement is a bailout of $ 20 billion of 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 Trump, who played a decisive role in 2018, when he helped Argentina to obtain a major loan of $ 56 billion in the fund.

Milei mom on Trump’s meeting

But Friday, Milei’s eagerly awaited photo session with Trump was nowhere in the smooth assembly of his audience of the Argentinian president slamming selfies with fans on the Mar-A-Lago red carpet.

The president’s office said nothing about his meeting – or, without funds – with Trump, and did not respond to several requests for comments.

Trump arrived in Mar-A-Lago later than scheduled for 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 had 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.”