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Trump Participates in a Bilateral Lunch with the President of Argentina

October 14, 2025 · The White House · 0:51:54

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What happened

President Donald Trump hosted Argentine President Javier Milei for a bilateral lunch at the White House on October 14, 2025. “It’s a great honor to have the leader of Argentina,” the President said. “He’s MAGA all the way. It’s make Argentina great again.” He said he had followed Milei since before his campaign as “a tremendously talented economist” and judged him “on the verge of tremendous economic success.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who the President said was helping Argentina, described Milei as “fighting a hundred years of bad economic history and policy” and framed the U.S. role as an economic bridge: “We are not going to ignore our allies. It is economic strength. We’re using our economic strength to create peace just as you’ve done all over the world.” With Argentina’s midterm election days away, the President tied continued U.S. support to the result as he stated it: “our approvals are somewhat subject to who wins the election because if a socialist… wins, you feel a lot differently about making an investment.”

Why it matters

The lunch is the public face of the administration’s Argentina support package: a sitting U.S. president openly backing an allied leader’s reform program — and its financing — ahead of that country’s midterm vote, with the condition stated on camera. It is recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub.

Scoreboard watch

The U.S. economic-bridge support for Argentina, and the President’s stated election condition on it, are recorded here as candidate items for the weekly scoreboard.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Lunch with the President of the Argentine Republic,” The White House, October 14, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by the President and the Treasury Secretary at the lunch.