President Javier Milei’s excessive use of social media platform X is no news. On Sunday, he liked 700 posts and reposted almost 300, spending approximately 4.5 hours logged into the app, according to a website that analyzes his X account public data.
However, a post he liked on Friday to mock Chubut governor Ignacio Torres has sparked outrage for its clear pornographic and pedophilic contents, even leading to a spat between a journalist and Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni, who defended the president’s use of his social media accounts.
Milei is currently involved in an unprecedented conflict with almost all of Argentina’s governors over federal tax funds. The situation began on Friday when Torres threatened to stop delivering oil and gas to the rest of the country unless his province received its share of those funds, which the Milei administration had cut.
Far from easing the tension, the government decided to escalate the conflict, calling Torres’ warning a “Chavista threat.” The president later said the governor was “a poor boy” who couldn’t even “read a contract” in an interview with news channel LN+ on Sunday.
Within his Friday rampage on social media, Milei liked a post by X user “@FelixMemelord” that read, “In LN+ they are f*cking the Chubut governor, Torres.” An image taken from a porn film, showing Torres’ face edited over the body of a young woman dressed as a child surrounded by a group of men, was posted alongside the text. The faces of the actors were edited out to show four of the channel’s male newscasters.
Lo que más me gustó del debate en torno a este meme fue cómo todos reconocieron el carácter pedófilo de la imagen.
La foto original pertenece al porno y la del medio es Piper Perri con 20 años. ¿Con la edición es más fácil identificar la violencia? pic.twitter.com/w2LK33pyHl
The unedited picture shows porn actress Piper Perri wearing pigtails and a unicorn T-shirt. The image, which suggests that a situation of sexual abuse is about to take place, is commonly used as a meme to express how the protagonist (embodied by Perri) is either in deep trouble or about to experience an awful situation.
Among the hundreds of tweets Milei likes daily on X, he also liked a post with a picture of Torres’ face edited to have features resembling those of a person with Down syndrome.
Adorni rejected commenting on Milei’s like during a press conference on Monday morning. “I didn’t see it; I can’t comment on something I haven’t seen,” he said. Journalist Fabián Waldman from La Patriada radio station tried showing him the meme, but Adorni refused to look at it.
“Milei uses his social media accounts without any intermediaries or social media managers, as a way of communicating directly with the people,” Adorni said. “Milei is a super respectful person […] They are his accounts and he will use them as he sees fit.”
Adorni also lashed out at Waldman, accusing him of “filming offices without authorization” inside Casa Rosada. Waldman is a credited reporter at Casa Rosada and attends Adorni’s press conferences daily. Adorni has previously avoided answering his questions and has even shared a video mocking the journalist on the official Presidential Spokesperson accounts.
On Monday, Milei liked another post showing a drawing of a kid — who would seemingly represent the user who made the meme — pissing on Waldman’s face, and other posts mocking the reporter.
Osea digamos literalmente los meé pic.twitter.com/CaUTzHMcaC
This is not the first time Milei has liked or even reposted content with pornographic or sexual content, usually degrading women. After speaking at a conservative political conference in Washington on Saturday, he reposted a porn image of a person with his own face edited in and the tag “economic class” giving bottled milk to a girl with the tag “socialists.” That same day, he also liked a post of activist and former adult film actress Mia Khalifa’s cleavage.
Milei liked of a photo of ex-porn actress and activist for the Palestinian cause Mia Khalifa
Waving the Israeli flag and then liking photos like this = ubertroll behavior 😂 pic.twitter.com/wF0jLbd9aN
Outrage as Milei likes edited porn meme mocking Chubut governor
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President Javier Milei’s excessive use of social media platform X is no news. On Sunday, he liked 700 posts and reposted almost 300, spending approximately 4.5 hours logged into the app, according to a website that analyzes his X account public data.
However, a post he liked on Friday to mock Chubut governor Ignacio Torres has sparked outrage for its clear pornographic and pedophilic contents, even leading to a spat between a journalist and Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni, who defended the president’s use of his social media accounts.
Milei is currently involved in an unprecedented conflict with almost all of Argentina’s governors over federal tax funds. The situation began on Friday when Torres threatened to stop delivering oil and gas to the rest of the country unless his province received its share of those funds, which the Milei administration had cut.
Far from easing the tension, the government decided to escalate the conflict, calling Torres’ warning a “Chavista threat.” The president later said the governor........
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