Argentina’s Milei Recognizes Trump’s Peace Legacy With White House Gift

Argentine President Javier Milei gifted President Donald Trump a gold-framed Nobel nomination letter on Tuesday during a meeting between the two leaders at the White House.

Milei presented Trump with the gift ahead of a dinner attended by top officials from each government. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite a chorus of world leaders who pushed for Trump to win this year’s honor.

Milei, through a translator, said that he is “very honored, especially in this moment when we are giving thanks for Trump’s great leadership,” according to the Associated Press.

“We can follow a peaceful route and make Argentina a strong example for freedom and prosperity,” the visiting president said.

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Milei visited Washington, D.C., after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a financial lifeline to Argentina last week. Bessent said the Treasury struck an agreement with Milei’s administration for a $20 billion currency swap and an additional U.S. purchase of Argentine pesos.

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“Argentina faces a moment of acute illiquidity. The international community – including [the International Monetary Fund] – is unified behind Argentina and its prudent fiscal strategy, but only the United States can act swiftly. And act we will,” said Bessent in a post on X.

Milei is an economist by training and a forceful advocate for free markets and capitalism. His aggressive reforms to Argentina’s economy, the third-largest in South America, showed early success in attracting investment, reducing inflation to around 30%, and restoring economic growth of roughly 5%.

But Milei’s popularity has sagged recently, with midterm elections quickly approaching later this month. Local elections held last month featured a closely-watched bellwether race that went against Milei’s party, spooking investors. Concerns surged that Milei’s efforts may be futile to break Argentina’s economy away from the Peronist-socialist philosophy that has shackled it for decades.

The Trump administration’s lifeline has provided Argentina with quick access to stable currency, reassuring creditors, at least for a short while, that the government can pay its debts. The U.S. assistance is also aimed at stabilizing Argentina’s highly volatile peso, preventing a run that would cause the price of the currency to plummet and knock the economy into a tailspin right ahead of elections.

“It’s just helping a great philosophy take over a great country,” said Trump on Tuesday, according to the AP. “Argentina is one of the most beautiful countries that I’ve ever seen, and we want to see it succeed. It’s very simple.”

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