Conservative columnist Andrew Egger blasted President Donald Trump for surrendering his “America First” agenda and proposing financial aid to an embattled MAGA-style Argentina leader.
"Argentina’s economy is in trouble again, with the peso in freefall — but Uncle Sam is ready to help,” said Egger, a former reporter for the conservative Weekly Standard. “President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have been relentless in their support for the nation’s libertarian-right president Javier Milei, with Bessent pledging this week that the United States may help bail out Argentina with market-stabilization measures.”
But the nation-building only comes at Milei’s personal benefit, not the benefit of the Argentinian people. American money will flow to Argentina only if the MAGA-style Milei wins the next election.
Bessent posted on X that “I have … been in touch with numerous U.S. companies who intend to make substantial foreign direct investments in Argentina multiple sectors in the event of a positive election outcome.”
Earlier, Bessent told Fox News that the plan is “as long as President Milei continues with his strong economic policies, to help him to bridge him to the election.”
Egger noted Trump’s "big hypocrisy" when it came to investment in humane or uniquely American issues.
“The U.S. taxpayer dollar is far too dear to waste on things like peanut butter to feed the starving in war zones or treatment for HIV-positive babies in Africa,” Egger said. “Hell, we have cut back on public broadcasting, food assistance, Medicaid coverage, scientific research, natural disaster preparedness, and weather monitoring. But penny-pinching can go out the window when it comes to underwriting another country’s currency and junk bonds.”
“Where is the MAGA chorus deploring this deployment?” said Egger. “Where are the voices insisting we have too many of our own problems to be trying to solve everybody else’s, demanding that this cash be reserved for a more ‘America First’ purpose?”
Egger suspected MAGA somehow believes “for all intents and purposes [that] Donald Trump is America,” and that saving Argentina from Milei’s many bad decisions equals to making “the world … safe for MAGA.”
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