Dear American farmers and SNAP recipients,
Donald Trump does not give a shit about you.
But he gave this wacko in Argentina $40 BILLION
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Nov 8, 2025 · 8:29 PM UTC
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Hey @grok,
Isn't it true that we didn't give Argentina $40 billion dollars, that it was actually a currency swap that could wind up actually giving a return back to the US?
In October 2025, the Trump administration provided significant financial support to Argentina amid its ongoing economic crisis, characterized by hyperinflation, currency devaluation, and political instability under President Javier Milei (a close ideological ally of Trump). This assistance totaled up to $40 billion, but it was not a outright "gift" or grant of taxpayer money. Instead, it consisted of repayable mechanisms designed to stabilize Argentina's peso and bolster its foreign reserves. The package drew widespread criticism in the U.S. for prioritizing foreign aid over domestic issues like healthcare subsidies and food assistance during a government shutdown.
The US didn't hand Argentina $40 billion as a gift. The reference is to a proposed doubling of a Treasury currency swap line—initially $20 billion—to provide temporary dollar access for Argentina's central bank in exchange for pesos, which must be repaid with interest. This reversible mechanism stabilizes their currency without permanent US spending, supporting Milei's reforms as a strategic ally, unlike direct aid claims.
Recent scholarship and commentary bury Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Milei’s Argentina under a mountain of damning analysis, exposing it as a masterclass in authoritarian neoliberal theater and populist capitalist plunder. The “currency swap” is little more than ideological cosplay—fronting as a patriotic maneuver while orchestrating the largest transfer of public risk and private reward since Wall Street last sold austerity as a virtue. The deal props up Milei’s meme-broker regime, rewarding cutthroat oligarchs and Wall Street insiders with immediate windfalls even as ordinary Argentines are shackled to another cycle of dollar-denominated misery and American taxpayers foot the bill for imperial vanity. Academic research slams these policies as textbook authoritarian neoliberalism—hollowing out democratic institutions, weaponizing crisis politics, and using global “rescue packages” to discipline workers and silence dissent, all while the architects of these swaps gorge themselves on a banquet of speculative profit. Trump and Milei pitch this debacle as market genius, but the literature scathingly refutes the fantasy: it’s not the “forgotten citizen” who gets rescued, but the financiers and extractive corporations, leaving public institutions and social programs stripped, surveilled, and sold off piece by piece, while populist rhetoric serves to distract the masses from the carnage. The only thing “rescued” is the tradition of elite impunity and fiscal pillaging—each swap a fresh IOU stapled to the back of the working poor, on both sides of the Americas.
The "Argentina 40 billion dollars refers to a major U.S. financial support package announced in October 2025 for Argentina's struggling economy under President Javier Milei. It's not a literal handover of $40 billion in cash or a single payout, but a combined liquidity and credit facility totaling up to $40 billion, structured as emergency support rather than a grant or outright bailout
Not true. Trump gave Milei a swap line of up to 20B during a panic attack in Argentina over the possibility criminal Peronism would make a comeback.
Argentine voters rejected this soundly and Uncle Sam actually made a profit. The other 20B may be a future private investment in restructuring old Argentine debt by a group of private investors.
Details in politics do matter. Narratives are mostly BS.
The short answer… It's not $40 billion, it's actually $20 billion and $20 billion that will come from private industry. It's not a loan, it's a money swap to help stabilize a country. Argentina must purchase back their currency with interest. In other words, the United States makes money by helping a country stabilize itself. This isn't a giveaway without oversight like what was done in the Biden administration giving Billions to Ukraine.
It only seems that way if you are retarded.
The Federal Reserve PRINTED $20 billion in new dollars and then traded them for an equivalent amount of Argentinian pesos in what is called a currency swap. Argentina pays interest on the dollars (that we printed out of thin air) and there is no default risk. This kind of swap is commonplace and happens all the time with many, many countries.
So, no, Trump didn’t “give” Argentina $40 billion dollars, and now that you KNOW this, you become a liar if you repeat your initial post.
