Buenos Aires: Argentina’s libertarian leader is lavishing praise on Donald Trump ahead of his first White House meeting with the US president on Tuesday. It’s a tactic that has helped transform President Javier Milei’s cash-strapped country into one of the Trump administration’s closest allies.
The effusive declarations are nothing new for Milei — whose dramatic cuts to state spending and attacks on “woke leftists” have won him a following among US conservatives.
“Your commitment to life, freedom and peace has restored hope to the world,” Milei wrote on social media Monday, congratulating the US president on securing a ceasefire deal in Gaza, where a truce is holding after a devastating, two-year Israel-Hamas war.