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 that Trump called Milei to congratulate the right-wing populist on his election victory.

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.

        • TechyDad@lemmy.world
          18·
          1 year ago

          They weren’t intentionally seized. They were seized because classified documents were mixed in with his passports and other stuff. When they raid a facility, they don’t have time to sort through everything there so they will often grab everything. Then a team sorts through it and returns anything that isn’t part of the case.

          Now, if a judge rules that Trump is a flight risk, they can seize his passports for real this time. Until then, though, Trump retains the ability to travel outside the country.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    226·
    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.

    • Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
      214·
      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.

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
        51·
        1 year ago

        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

    • Orbituary@lemmy.world
      111·
      1 year ago

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

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year 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.

  • cheeseburger
    151·
    1 year ago

    I’m tired of seeing this asshole cheering in different article photos with his stupid haircut, glasses, and chins.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    “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.

    You will turn your country around and truly make Argentina great again,” Trump said in a video published on social media Tuesday.

    Milei has often been compared to Trump, whom he praised in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this year.

    His conversation with Trump on Wednesday took place a few hours after Milei spoke with President Joe Biden.

    The White House said Biden congratulated Milei and spoke of “the strong relationship between the United States and Argentina on economic issues, on regional and multilateral cooperation, and on shared priorities, including advocating for the protection of human rights, addressing food insecurity and investing in clean energy.”

    The original article contains 330 words, the summary contains 200 words. Saved 39%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!