{"id":200463,"date":"2025-10-14T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200463\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:57:11","slug":"live-updates-trump-says-upcoming-argentina-elections-will-decide-how-generous-us-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200463\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump says upcoming Argentina elections will decide how ‘generous’ US will be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milei and his cloned dogs – his ‘most trusted advisers’published at 21:28 BST<\/p>\n

21:28 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n

When eccentric Argentine president Javier Milei stunned the country with a surprisingly strong first-place finish in Argentina\u2019s presidential primaries in 2023, he singled out five supporters for thanks: Conan, Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas. <\/p>\n

\u201cWho else?\u201d he said. \u201cMy four-legged children.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many of Milei’s observers, his dogs – large English Mastiffs named after his favourite economists – have become the focus of intense interest. His supporters have handed out their pictures at rallies, and Milei reportedly seeks political and economic counsel from the dogs. <\/p>\n

He has even referred to the canines as “the best strategists in the world”. <\/p>\n

His political opponents have often seized on the dogs to attack Milei, with one-time election rival Sergio Massa once saying that Argentines are worried about the country\u2019s future, “unlike those who speak to their dogs like they were their kids”.<\/p>\n

Part of the public\u2019s fascination with the dogs is due to the fact that the five were all cloned from a previous dog, also named Conan. <\/p>\n

Citing a number of sources, Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper has reported that Milei believes he first met Conan in a previous life, in which he was a gladiator in Rome and Conan was a lion, with the pair declining to fight so that they could join forces later on. <\/p>\n

Milei, however, has been relatively quiet publicly about whatever advice he may or may not get from his dogs. <\/p>\n

“What I do inside my house is my problem,” he told Spanish newspaper El Pais in 2024. <\/p>\n

Milei posted what seemed to be an AI-generated illustration of him and his dogs on Instagram in 2023.<\/p>\n

The topic of furry friends did not come up today during the public portion of the meeting between Trump and Milei. <\/p>\n

The US president is one of only three American leaders – alongside 19th-century presidents James Polk and Andrew Jackson – to not own a pet while living at the White House. In his first term, Trump was the first president in more than 100 years to not have a dog as an Oval Office companion. <\/p>\n

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