On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Elon Musk waved a chainsaw bequeathed him by Argentina’s President Javier Milei at the event, proclaiming, “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.”
Milei has been cutting the Argentinian budget successfully; his austerity measures gave the country its first budget surplus in more than ten years in 2024. Argentina had a budget surplus of 1.76 trillion pesos, and the primary fiscal balance rose to a 10.41 trillion peso surplus.
At CPAC, Milei walked onstage with the chainsaw and handed it to Musk. The chainsaw was engraved with a motto Milei has embraced, “Viva la libertad, carajo,” which means, “Long live liberty, damn it.”
This is so epic. The president of Argentina @JMilei presents Elon Musk @elonmusk with a golden chainsaw.
A chainsaw to CUT bureaucracy….
