Javier Milei claims to be “one of the two most important politicians on planet Earth.” “One is Trump, and the other is me,” he said in an interview broadcast this Sunday, September 1.
Argentina’s far-right, ultra-liberal President Javier Milei claimed in an interview to be “one of the two most important politicians” in the world, along with former US President Donald Trump, calling his political rivals “Lilliputians” and “invisible rats”.
“It hurts them that today I am one of the two most important politicians on planet Earth. One is Trump, and the other is me,” Milei said in an interview with conservative channel LN+ on Sunday evening.
“I am considered the greatest defender of the ideas of freedom in the world,” continued the Argentine president, referring to his meetings with “the greatest entrepreneurs in the world”, Silicon Valley stars such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
He calls his rivals “invisible rats”
Milei, who is at odds with the Argentine parliament, where his libertarian party is in the minority and where he has suffered recent legislative setbacks, mocked in passing “the Lilliputian agenda of insignificant Argentine politicians, invisible rats, who will never be able to aspire to this. “What vision can a rat have of a giant? Nothing,” he insisted.
Milei, 53, an ultraliberal economist, libertarian and “anarcho-capitalist” in his own words, has turned Argentine politics on its head since emerging three years ago after years of being a popular polemicist on TV talk shows.
First a deputy in Buenos Aires, he managed, with a “clear out” narrative of an “anti-caste” outsider, to put an end to 20 years of Peronist (centre left) or classic right-wing governments. He willingly presents himself as one of the world’s paragons of liberalism.
Last week, he revealed the upcoming launch on YouTube of a docuseries in half a dozen episodes, each 30 minutes long, tracing his rise in politics, described in a trailer already available, as “a phenomenon that captivated the world”, “the most epic campaign in history”.
