Former U.S. President Donald Trump took to social media to voice his support for President Javier Milei on Friday.
“The new President of Argentina, Javier Milei, who truly loves his country, is working hard and, according to many in the “know,” MAKING GREAT PROGRESS!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social network he founded after being booted off Twitter and Facebook for following the 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
“He inherited a ‘total mess,’ but he is MAGA (MAKE ARGENTINA GREAT AGAIN!), working very hard and, against long odds, will succeed,” he continued. “I look forward to helping him in the future!”
The message echoed Trump’s own campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Trump did not describe what help he plans to give. He is the Republican frontrunner for the U.S. 2024 presidential elections, which will take place on November 5.
Milei reposted the message on X (formerly Twitter), to which Trump was allowed to return after Elon Musk acquired the company.
It’s not the first time Trump has pledged his support to the president. Three days after Milei won November’s presidential run-off, his team announced that Trump had called him to congratulate him, promising to visit Argentina and stating that his victory had “a large impact worldwide.”
Trump had already saluted Milei’s win via a video posted on X. “A very special congratulations to Javier Milei on a great race for president of Argentina. The whole world was watching, and I am very proud of you. You will turn your country around,” he said.
According to journalist and TV host Luis Majul, Brazilian deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro brokered the contact between Trump and Argentina’s president-elect. Milei confirmed this in a reply to Majul’s post on X.
Several prominent right-wing US figures have endorsed and congratulated Milei since his electoral victory, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, who lost her House Committee assignments for promoting conspiracy theories; political strategist Roger Stone, and former Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters.
Far-right former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson traveled to Argentina to interview Milei before the elections. During their conversation, Milei told Carlson that Pope Francis had an “affinity for dictators,” that social justice “means defending robbery,” and that socialists’ hands are “stained with blood.”
Asked what advice he’d give Trump, he said: “He should continue his fight against socialism. He is one of the few who truly understood that we’re fighting against socialism.”