In a striking career pivot, Brad Parscale, once the digital mastermind behind President Donald Trump’s campaigns, has now registered as a foreign agent for the Israeli government under a $6 million contract to combat antisemitism, The Hill reported.
In this role, Parscale’s company, Clocktower X LLC, will lead a U.S.-based digital campaign targeting Gen Z audiences on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to address rising antisemitic sentiments.
Parscale, who previously spearheaded the digital efforts for Trump’s 2016 presidential run and managed his 2020 reelection bid, has a history of leveraging social media for political impact. During the 2016 campaign, he notably hired Cambridge Analytica to assist with data-driven strategies. His tenure with Trump’s 2020 campaign saw him demoted from manager to senior adviser in July of that year, followed by his resignation in October 2020.
Fast forward to September 18, 2025, when Parscale officially began working for the Israeli government, as indicated in paperwork filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. This marked a significant shift from political campaigning to international advocacy for the former Trump aide.
Through his company, Clocktower X LLC, Parscale signed a lucrative $6 million agreement to develop content aimed at countering antisemitism in the United States. The deal was first brought to public attention by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington-based think tank focused on promoting restraint in foreign policy.
The contract specifies that Parscale’s firm will focus on strategic communications and media services to support Israel’s nationwide initiative. A key requirement is that at least 80 percent of the content must resonate with Gen Z users on popular platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, alongside podcasts and other digital outlets.
Parscale’s primary contacts within the Israeli government include the minister of Foreign Affairs and Eran Shayovich, the chief of staff at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as per LinkedIn information. These connections underscore the high-level coordination behind this digital outreach effort.
The contract outlines a clear mission for Parscale’s agency, stating, “Agency shall provide strategic communications, planning, and media services in support of Client’s engagement by the State of Israel to develop and execute a nationwide campaign in the United States to combat antisemitism.” This directive highlights the targeted nature of the initiative.
The urgency of this campaign comes amid a troubling surge in antisemitic incidents across the U.S. over the past two years. This rise coincides with Israel’s ongoing conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which intensified following Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the U.S. saw a record 9,354 antisemitic incidents in 2024, the highest number documented since the organization started tracking such events 46 years ago. This staggering figure reflects a deepening challenge within American society.
For the first time in the ADL’s annual audit history, a majority—58 percent—of these incidents included references to Israel or Zionism. This shift indicates a growing intersection between geopolitical tensions and domestic hate.
Parscale’s new role positions him at the forefront of addressing this crisis through modern communication channels. His expertise in digital strategy, honed during high-stakes political campaigns, will now be applied to influence younger audiences on critical social issues.
The initiative represents a broader effort by the Israeli government to engage with American audiences amid heightened sensitivities surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict. Parscale’s involvement brings a unique blend of political campaign tactics to a pressing social cause.
While his past work with Trump’s campaigns drew both praise and controversy, this contract offers Parscale an opportunity to reshape narratives on a different stage. How his strategies will translate to combating hate online remains to be seen.
As antisemitism continues to spike, the effectiveness of digital campaigns like the one Parscale is tasked with leading could set a precedent for international advocacy in the social media era. His efforts with Clocktower X LLC may influence how governments and organizations tackle hate speech and bias in the future.
Marilyn Knowlden, a child star from Hollywood's Golden Age who shared the screen with Katharine Hepburn, James Cagney, and other legends, has passed away. She was 99.
Knowlden died at an assisted living facility in Eagle, Idaho, her son told the Hollywood Reporter.
In a career spanning a little over a decade, Knowlden was constantly in demand, appearing in no fewer than six Oscar-nominated movies. Some of her biggest roles were in film adaptations of literary classics, including Little Women, Les Misérables, and David Copperfield.
Born an only child in Oakland, California, Knowlden took to acting at age four while visiting Hollywood with her father, who was on a business trip.
Within days of an interview with Paramount's head of casting, the young Knowlden had landed her first movie, Women Love Once (1931), an early talkie.
“On the second day there, just for fun, my father decided to call some of the studios,” she recalled. “I had been doing some little acting things in Oakland, and my teacher there had told my father that she thought I should be in the movies, so he thought he’d give it a try," she said in a 2018 interview.
Her father, who was then a lawyer, became her manager throughout a short-lived but prolific career that included 30 movies from 1931 to 1944.
She appeared in 1933's Little Women, starring Katharine Hepburn. In 1935's version of the Dickens classic David Copperfield, Knowlden played Agnes Wickfield, David's childhood friend and "good angel."
Knowlden's other notable roles include the exploited orphan Cosette in Les Misérables (1935) and the child version of the future love interest of James Cagney's Rocky in the crime drama Angels With Dirty Faces (1938).
Rather than signing with a major studio, Knowlden was a freelancer, which was unusual at the time.
"Well, my father was very much in control of my career, and he didn’t want me to be under contract,” she said. “I think one of the reasons is that if you’re a child under contract, you have to go to the studio school, and there goes your normal life. I think he was very happy to have things the way they were.”
After her movie career dwindled, Knowlden followed her first husband, US Army captain Richard Goates, to China and Japan, where she was a radio announcer for the American Forces Network.
Later in life, Knowlden - who studied music and drama at Mills College - wrote musicals, and she continued to appear in local stage productions.
She continued to be recognized for her work in movies well into old age, appearing at numerous film festivals. In 2011, she published an account of her remarkable life, Little Girl in Big Pictures.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been reinstated, days after he was suspended over a widely publicized incident outside a New York City court.
As reported by CBS News, the ICE agent has returned to duty after a preliminary review of the matter.
The agent was filmed shoving a distraught Ecuadoran woman to the ground as she struggled to block her husband's arrest.
Videos of the confrontation went viral on social media, as critics used the footage to assail Trump's immigration crackdown as cruel and excessive.
The Department of Homeland Security initially relieved the agent of duty, saying his behavior was "unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE," but the administration has apparently reversed course after an investigation.
The woman's husband, Ruben Abelardo Ortiz-Lopez, is a "criminal illegal alien" who ICE became aware of after he was arrested for "assault and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation," officials told CBS News.
"President Trump and Secretary Noem are not going to allow criminal illegal aliens to terrorize American citizens," a DHS official said. "If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will arrest you and you will never return."
Ortiz-Lopez was arrested after a scuffle outside the immigration court at the 26 Federal Plaza building in New York. The man's family clung to him as ICE struggled to detain him in a hallway.
The man's wife continued to confront ICE after he was taken away. In one video of the incident, the woman is seen telling an agent to "take me too" in Spanish.
The woman is seen touching the agent, who tells her to stop before pushing her to the floor moments later.
The confrontation sparked debate, with some condemning the officer's response as excessive, while others said the woman instigated the conflict.
The woman and her husband are both living in the United States illegally.
Democrats have made resisting immigration enforcement a focus of their opposition to President Trump's agenda, as Trump ramps up arrests of illegal immigrants at courthouses, worksites, and other target-rich locations.
The aggressive approach has sparked backlash, even as Democrats continue to use rhetoric toward ICE agents that many consider extreme.
Republicans have blamed the left for a recent deadly attack at an ICE facility in Texas, where two detainees were killed by an anti-ICE sniper.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to slip a nicotine pouch into his mouth in the middle of a White House event, the Daily Mail reported.
Kennedy, the nation's top public health official, was standing right behind President Trump during a press conference on lowering drug costs.
Trump was proudly touting a deal with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer when Kennedy appeared to put something in his mouth.
This is not the first time Kennedy has been spotted using a nicotine product on the sly. Many people who tuned in to Kennedy's contentious Senate confirmation hearing in January thought Kennedy popped a Zyn, a popular brand of nicotine pouch.
Kenned appeared to make a similar motion during Tuesday's press conference, swiping his hand across his mouth as Trump spoke.
The ability to discreetly consume nicotine pouches is one of their main draws. Some people even credit them with weight loss, since nicotine suppresses appetite.
While nicotine pouches like Zyn have been touted as an alternative to smoking, smokeless nicotine products are still addictive, and they may have harmful effects on the heart and gums.
The pouches lay between the upper lip and the gums, releasing nicotine slowly to produce a longer buzz than people get from cigarettes.
Trump set a loose, informal tone at Tuesday's event, where he announced a new website allowing consumers to purchase discounted drugs, "TrumpRx." The president also said Pfizer has agreed to charge lower prices for its drugs to Medicaid.
The president poked fun at Kennedy at one point for sneezing.
"God bless you, Bobby," Trump said. "I hope I didn't catch Covid just there."
Trump jokingly asked Pfizer executive Albert Bourla to administer an anti-viral treatment that Pfizer makes to treat COVID-19.
"Don't you have Paxlovid? He's got Paxlovid. Give me a Paxlovid immediately," Trump said.
The founder of the "Make America Health Again" movement, Kennedy has prioritized combating chronic disease, especially in children, blaming culprits like chemicals in the food supply and a tendency to overmedicate.
He has faced backlash for some of his more unorthodox views, especially on vaccines.
Just days ago, Trump and Kennedy caused a firestorm by blaming autism in children on pregnant mothers using the common over-the-counter painkiller Tylenol.
Kennedy's "MAHA" report on the health of America's children has been criticized by some for omitting tobacco as a cause of chronic disease.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made it clear that service members "should do the honorable thing and resign" if they object to the changes to military standards announced this week, Fox News reported. Hegseth's plan is to emphasize war readiness while eliminating the "woke" priorities that typically dominate America's fighting force and undermine combat readiness.
Hegseth called a meeting of his top generals to Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia on Tuesday to announce the new standards. The Army National Guard veteran stated that the Department of Defense and everything associated with that title is "dead." At the same time, the War Department will focus on "preparing for war and preparing to win," Hegseth said.
"If the words I’m speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign. We would thank you for your service. But I suspect the overwhelming majority of you feel the opposite. These words make your hearts full," Hegseth said.
The left has used the military as a proving ground for its most insane and damaging initiatives, but Hegseth said those days are over under his watch. He has already fired several high-ranking officers before summoning all of his top leaders to this meeting to lay out his new plans.
In his address to all generals and flag officers ranked one star and above, Hegseth said he was reversing the "decay" caused by an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion that has weakened forces through lowered standards. "We became the woke department. But not anymore," Hegseth said during his 45-minute address.
"No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship. No more division, distraction or gender delusions. No more debris. We are done with that," the Secretary of War said.
Hegseth also stated that the standards that have fallen by the wayside in recent years, for everything from physical fitness to grooming, will be restored. The secretary noted that a "male level" of physical fitness would be required for any combat positions, and he was willing to accept that it might result in fewer women being assigned to those roles.
"If women can make it, excellent. If not, it is what it is," Hegseth said. "Weak men won’t qualify either. We’re not playing games," Hegseth said.
The secretary wants a new "warrior ethos" in all branches of the military, which means reverting to 2015 standards for combat readiness. Now, Hegseth will require twice-yearly fitness tests that will be gender-neutral, meaning no breaks for women, regardless of rank, all the way up to four-star generals. These 10 directives also mean fewer seminars and more hands-on training for the troops, and stricter grooming standards, such as prohibiting long hair and beards, will also be enforced again.
Hegseth also promised that basic training will once again be "scary, tough, and disciplined" to whip new recruits into top physical shape. "Standards must be uniform, gender-neutral, and high. If not, they’re just suggestions. And suggestions get our sons and daughters killed," Hegseth noted while also denigrating those who call these practices "bullying" and "hazing" rather than war readiness.
The secretary also decried the charges of "toxic leadership" for such toughness. "Real toxic leadership is promoting people based on immutable characteristics or quotas instead of merit. If that makes me toxic, then so be it," Hegseth said. The secretary promised to trim the bureaucracy and make the armed forces leaner and more effective to demonstrate "peace through strength" in the world.
To our enemies, FAFO. If necessary, our troops can translate that for you perfectly," Hegseth said. "Today is another Liberation Day, the liberation of America’s warriors in name, indeed, and in authorities. You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct and don’t necessarily belong always in polite society. You are warriors," Hegseth concluded before closing with a prayer.
This is precisely what America's military needs to once again assert its strength, both for the sake of our allies and our enemies. Leftists have done so much damage with their woke agenda everywhere, but it has been particularly problematic in the armed forces, and now Hegseth is going to fix it.
The federal government partially shut down after midnight on Wednesday, following the failure of Democrats and Republicans to reach an agreement on a funding bill, the UK Daily Mail reported. President Donald Trump shared a photo taken during negotiations showing him pointing and smiling as a "Trump 2028" hat was positioned just so for the camera.
The president's meeting took place late into the night, with Vice President J.D. Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in attendance. The main sticking point for closing the deal was over cuts to healthcare subsidies.
Ultimately, an agreement couldn't be reached, and the deadline passed, meaning parts of the government were shut down beginning early Wednesday, with another vote planned for later in the day. However, Trump has not lost his sense of humor during it all and poked fun at Democrats with the photo, which he shared on his Truth Social and X, formerly Twitter, without a caption.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2025
Trump knew he had the upper hand on the Democrats and took the opportunity of negotiations to troll them. Since the 2016 election, Trump's "Make America Great Again" signature red hats have thrown leftists into fits of rage. Now the president is sending them into orbit again with the "Trump 2028" hats, which some reports said were handed out during the meeting.
Jeffries claimed that they were not handed out, but "randomly appeared in the middle" of negotiations, which made for a great photo op for Trump. "He did not try to hand us the Trump 2028 hat. They just randomly appeared in the middle of the meeting on the desk. It was the strangest thing ever," Jeffries said.
The New York Democrat then asked Vance for his thoughts on whether Trump would really run again in 2028, which would be unconstitutional since Trump is already serving his second term and would knock Vance out of the logical next step, even if it were allowed. "No comment," was all the vice president had to say, which made everyone in the room laugh.
Hats that make Democrats go insane seemed to be the theme of the week for Trump. The president shared a video digitally altered for comic effect to make Schumer appear to give a speech about Democrats' failure to get support from minorities. In the background, a mariachi band plays while Jeffries, wearing a photoshopped hat and mustache, looks on beside him.
"There's no way to sugarcoat it, nobody likes Democrats anymore," the fake Schumer voice said, blaming the "woke" policies of the left. "Not even Black people wanna vote for us anymore, even Latinos hate us. So we need new votes. And if we give all these illegal aliens free healthcare, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English, so they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of sh--." it said.
Republicans tried to pass a continuing resolution earlier this year to keep the government operational through November, but Democrats have failed to sign on. The left predicted several apocalyptic consequences for the shutdown, including a million military members going unpaid, many federal government workers being furloughed, and public services such as passport issuance, food inspection, and federal loan assistance being interrupted.
However, this move actually presents a new opportunity to streamline the government, which Democrats have now handed Trump and the GOP on a silver platter. "We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible--that are bad for them and irreversible by them--by cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like," Trump said Tuesday ahead of the shutdown.
"A lot of good can come from shutdowns," he reiterated later that same day. According to Fox News, Schumer used Trump's assessment about the benefits of a shutdown to slam the president.
"Well, there it is. Trump admitted himself that he is using Americans as political pawns. He is admitting that he is doing the firing of people. If God forbid it happens, he's using Americans as pawns," Schumer claimed. "As I said, Democrats did not want a shutdown. We stand ready to work with Republicans to find a bipartisan compromise, and the ball is in their court," Schumer said before negotiations.
The perennial threat of government shutdowns is growing increasingly tiresome with each attempt. Each side blames the other for it, and each time, nobody wins except the politicians, who ultimately get what they want anyway, in the form of increased spending. At least Trump appears to be on the side of the American people this time, and at the very least, he's providing comic relief.
In a startling incident on Monday, a man was apprehended by the U.S. Secret Service after attempting to climb over the White House fence while President Donald Trump was inside the residence, Breitbart reported.
On Monday, a man dressed in a blazer and blue-tinted sunglasses was arrested for unlawful entry after scaling the White House fence on the southeast side of the U.S. Treasury Building, though his intentions toward President Trump or visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain unclear.
The incident unfolded as President Trump was present at the White House, raising immediate concerns among security personnel.
The man, whose identity has not been disclosed, was spotted trying to ascend the barrier on the southeast perimeter adjacent to the Treasury Building.
He was quickly intercepted by U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers before he could advance further.
Photographs captured the individual being led away in handcuffs, still wearing his distinctive blazer and sunglasses.
A U.S. Secret Service spokesperson confirmed the arrest, stating the charge as unlawful entry.
“An individual scaled the fence on the southeast side of the U.S. Treasury Building and was arrested by U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers for unlawful entry,” the spokesperson explained.
“He was subsequently transported to the Metropolitan Police Department’s 2nd District for processing. There was no impact to our protective operations.”
The event coincided with a demonstration in Washington, D.C., where a group of protesters gathered to oppose the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the Daily Mail, this backdrop of unrest added a layer of complexity to the security situation.
However, authorities have not confirmed if the man’s actions were linked to the protest or if he posed any direct threat to either leader.
This incident recalls past security breaches at the White House, underscoring the persistent challenges faced by protective services.
In 2014, during the Obama administration, Iraq War veteran Omar J. Gonzalez jumped the fence, armed with a small knife, and entered the executive mansion.
The Guardian detailed that Gonzalez overpowered a guard, dashed through the East Room, and was only stopped near the Green Room, highlighting vulnerabilities at the time.
YouTube has agreed to pay $24 million to settle a lawsuit from President Trump, who sued the tech giant over the suspension of his account following the January 6th, 2021, riot.
The settlement marks a dramatic reversal of political fortunes, with Trump back at the center of power and his MAGA movement operating in a much friendlier tech landscape than the one that existed during Trump's first term.
Most of the $24 million form YouTube will go towards the construction of Trump's White House ballroom, while the remainder will go to conservative plaintiffs that accused YouTube of censoring them.
The immediate aftermath of the Capitol chaos marked the low point of Trump's political career, as Big Tech companies moved swiftly to blacklist him while he was yet a sitting president.
As he campaigned for the White House in 2024, Trump gradually regained access to social media. He was reinstated by X, formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk bought the platform with a pledge to restore freedom of speech. Facebook and Google eventually followed suit months later, bringing Trump back to their platforms.
Trump was barred from YouTube for a little over two years before he was brought back in March 2023.
As Breitbart notes, YouTube suspended Trump “in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence" following the Capitol protest.
"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies,” the company said at the time.
The political landscape could not look more different now than it did in 2021, with Trump back in the White House and extracting massive sums from his former adversaries in tech and the legacy media.
In addition to YouTube, Trump has pressured Meta/Facebook and X/Twitter to pay up for suspending his accounts, settling for $25 million and $10 million, respectively.
Meanwhile, major tech companies have changed their policies and apologized for Biden-era censorship.
Just last week, YouTube agreed to reinstate conservatives who had been suspended for disfavored political speech on contentious topics like COVID-19, with Google - which owns YouTube - conceding the Biden-era censorship was "unacceptable and wrong."
At the center of this revolution in the political climate is Trump, whose historic comeback in 2024 changed the course of history.
“[Trump’s] election had a lot to do with it,” John Coale, Trump’s personal attorney, told the New York Post of Trump's tech settlements.
The Senate rejected a bill that would permanently end government shutdowns, just hours before funding was set to lapse at midnight Wednesday.
As reported by the Washington Examiner, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced the "Eliminate Shutdowns" Act to end the familiar spectacle of lawmakers squabbling over policy priorities until the last minute.
It's happening again this year, with Democrats sending the government into a shutdown after rejecting a GOP funding bill that did not meet their healthcare demands.
Republicans have pushed for a "clean" stopgap spending bill, while Democrats want immediate extensions to Obamacare subsidies and a reversal of the Medicaid cuts in Trump's sweeping domestic policy law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
As Congress hurtled toward a shutdown this week, Senator Johnson proposed ending the routine fiscal brinkmanship on Capitol Hill once and for all, but his proposal was rejected 37-61.
Johnson's bill would keep the government afloat with automatically renewing stopgap bills while the regular appropriations process continues.
“This simple bill could be a game changer,” he wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "With government funding and functioning assured, Congress would no longer have to spend weeks and months arguing over how to keep government departments open after failing to pass appropriation bills.”
14 Republican senators joined every Democrat to vote no on Johnson's bill, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ak.), and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.).
Ultimately, just three Democrats in the Senate voted to approve a GOP-backed bill to avoid a government shutdown on Tuesday night.
Senators Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and Angus King voted for the continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government operating at current funding levels. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also voted no.
Republicans pointed to the Democratic defections as a sign that the party will break sooner or later. But Democrats, under pressure from their base to fight President Trump, have so far refused to blink as Trump threatens to fire federal workers after funding lapses at midnight on October 1.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought blamed the shutdown on Democrats' “insane policy demands," adding it’s “unclear how long Democrats will maintain their untenable posture, making the duration of the shutdown difficult to predict.”
“[I]t is now clear that Democrats will prevent passage of this clean [continuing resolution] prior to 11:59 pm tonight and force a government shutdown,” Vought wrote in a memo to government agencies.
The last government shutdown lasted for 35 days from December 2018 through January 2019 after Congress refused to fund Trump's border wall. The shutdown was the longest ever at the time.
A member of President Trump's Cabinet inadvertently exposed a "highly unfortunate" trade situation concerning American soybean farmers.
A journalist for the Associated Press snapped a photograph of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reading texts on his phone, with the messages clearly legible, while Bessent was at the United Nations General Assembly, the Daily Mail reports.
In the messages, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins laments a "highly unfortunate" turn of events after the U.S. offered to bail out Argentina, whose president, Javier Milei, is a Trump ally.
“Just a heads up. I am getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate. We bailed out Argentina yesterday and in return, Argentina removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price to China at a time when we would normally be selling to China,” the text message read.
“Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us,” it continued. “On a plane but scott I can call you when I land.”
Argentina temporarily dropped its export taxes on grains last week, a move that undercut American farmers right at the start of the harvest season, as China snapped up cargoes of Argentina's crops.
Argentina's selloff came after Bessent announced a $20 billion financial lifeline to support Argentina's economy as Milei faces midterm elections in October.
“These options may include, but are not limited to, swap lines, direct currency purchases, and purchases of U.S. dollar-denominated government debt from Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund,” Bessent said in a social media post.
“Opportunities for private investment remain expansive, and Argentina will be Great Again.”
Bessent is known for being a smooth communicator and defender of Trump's trade policies, but the leak of Bessent's texts has caught the White House off guard as members of Trump's base, including farmers, revolt over the proposed bailout of a foreign country.
Midwestern farmers are under significant pressure from Trump's trade war, as China snubs American farmers to purchase soybeans from South America instead. Trump has floated helping distressed farmers using revenue from his tariffs, which have generated over $200 billion.
The administration's desire to help Argentina stems from Trump's personal and ideological alliance with Milei, a hardline capitalist who received Trump's endorsement at the UN.
It remains to be seen how Trump will balance his desire to help a right-wing ally overseas with his pledge to put the American people first.
In any case, Trump is meeting with Milei in two weeks, Argentina said Tuesday.