Former President Donald Trump has told Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei that he plans to travel to the South American country so the two can meet, Milei’s office said Thursday.

The office did not give a date for when Trump intends to be in Buenos Aires. The inauguration of Milei, a right-wing populist who has expressed admiration for Trump, is scheduled for Dec. 10.

“The president-elect received a call last night from the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, who congratulated him and pointed out his triumph by a wide margin in last Sunday’s election had a great impact on a global scale,” a news release from Milei’s office said.

A local journalist who was first to report the news, Luis Majul, wrote on X early Thursday that the lawmaker son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro, was the one who “facilitated” the contact between Milei and the GOP front-runner. “That’s right,” Milei posted in response.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Argentina gets what it deserves with this guy. Watch em crying in a few years that things are worse, and they’ll just vote in another right wing moron, cause that’s what their macho brain is wired to do. I’ve met a ton of Argentineans while at my job and they’re generally arrogant and right wing, like they’re over compensating.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe don’t judge an entire country based on random people you’ve met? Almost half of them didn’t vote for this shithead.

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        There’s a reason why Argentineans are disliked by pretty much every other Latin American country, they’re the ones who think they’re above the rest of us and they think they’re European

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      South America is a pendulous place for politics. After each dude on the right, they go left. Rinse, wash, repeat.

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      11 months ago

      The current government is intentionally leaving a debt in USD of about 130000 millions. We are already with 3 digits inflation. 4 years of woes and problems aggravated by the current government, which was actually looking to be reelected. 56% of people said no to that.