Argentinian leader flies to Florida for unexpected Trump and Musk gathering

Argentinian President makes a surprise visit to Mar-a-Lago becoming first foreign leader to meet with Trump. The visit includes planned talks with Elon Musk about reducing government costs

November 15 2024 , 03:22 AM  •  471 views

Argentinian leader flies to Florida for unexpected Trump and Musk gathering

Javier Milei arrived at Mar-a-Lago on 11/15/24‚ marking a first-of-its-kind meeting with Donald Trump since his re-election (while Elon Musk has been staying at the property for several days)

The Argentinian leader‚ who took power last winter has made big-time changes in his country: he shut down many state offices and let-go about 15k workers. His next stop includes a sit-down with Musk to talk about cost-saving ideas

In a related move‚ Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy got picked to lead a new-fangled agency called DoGE – which aims to cut down US government costs. The tech mogul who bought X (ex-Twitter) in late-22 and cut most of its staff; now wants to do something similar with federal spending

This will be tedious work‚ make lots of enemies and compensation is zero

Muskʼs response to job posting

The economic facts show quite different pictures: Argentina deals with super-high inflation (250%) and owes lots to IMF; while US economy grows at 2.7% with low inflation. Still Musk thinks thereʼs room for budget-cuts

Muskʼs schedule has been packed lately – he joined a call between Trump and Zelenskyy‚ plus met with Iranʼs UN rep to discuss west-east relations (but this Milei meeting might be less controversial than those)