Trump’s bailout threat may have been key to Milei’s electoral triumph in Argentina

<p>Voters appear to have responded to idea that US president’s ‘generosity’ would evaporate if Milei failed to win</p><p>“The dollar always talks in the end,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal.</p><p>Javier Milei’s surprise <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/javier-milei-president-far-right-party-wins-argentina-midterm-elections">triumph in Argentina’s midterm elections</a> – after Trump bailed him out <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/argentina-president-javier-milei-polls-economic-crisis-trump">with 40bn </a>of them – suggests there may be some truth to that assertion.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/trump-javier-mileis-electoral-triumph-argentina">Continue reading...</a>