Yesterday, Argentina's president Javier Milei became the first foreign leader to meet with president-elect Donald Trump at a gala at Mar-a-Lago.

Here are they hugging it out and trading compliments in the video below.

The mutual admiration makes perfect sense.

Both Milei and Trump have emerged from countries grappling with serious systemic issues. While Argentina's problems may be on a whole different level, both the U.S. and Argentina face common challenges—runaway cost of living, crippling debt, an ever-expanding federal bureaucracy, and what Elon Musk calls the "woke virus" that has turned institutions from universities to government agencies into bastions of progressive ideology. And just like Milei, Trump has been relentlessly attacked by the mainstream media, painted as a dangerous radical—even a Nazi.

Two Leaders, One Promise

Another thing they share is their promise of something you almost never see in politics: actually cutting government bloat and inefficiency.

Well, Javier Milei didn't just promise—he delivered. Armed with his symbolic chainsaw at campaign rallies, he turned metaphor into action on his first day in office.

He abolished half of Argentina's federal ministries, laid off 50,000 state workers, devalued the currency by 50%, halted public works, and slashed subsidies. His "zero tolerance" approach to deficit spending has already shown results: monthly inflation has just plummeted from 25.5% to 2.7%. That's the lowest level in three years.

Now Trump appears ready to follow suit. I wrote recently about him floating the idea of Elon Musk leading a new initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—a nod to Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency Musk has famously backed.

Just earlier this week, on November 12, it became official. In his announcement naming Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as DOGE's co-leaders, Trump wrote that it "will become, potentially, 'The Manhattan Project' of our time."