Kicillof mocks Milei’s Malvinas address: “I thought it was artificial intelligence”

Axel Kicillof said he briefly thought Javier Milei’s televised speech on the Malvinas Islands had been generated by artificial intelligence. The Buenos Aires governor reacted 24 hours after the president announced measures aimed at preventing British-authorized companies from extracting oil in the islands.

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I thought it was artificial intelligence.

In a long post on social media, Kicillof said Milei had spoken about the Malvinas and sovereignty, called for national unity and ended with “Viva la Patria.” He described the performance as deeply inauthentic and said the president’s patriotism appeared to come from a script rather than from the heart.

Kicillof said his Peronist movement, Movimiento Derecho al Futuro, would not criticize anyone for saying that the Malvinas belong to Argentina. But he argued that the government was preparing to apply sanctions it had already possessed but never used, while proposing a base in Ushuaia after Milei had halted public works.

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The patriotism did not come from his heart, it came from a script.

He called Milei “the president most hostile to national unity” and accused him of subordinating Argentine decisions to foreign interests. Kicillof also highlighted what he described as a contradiction between the president’s Malvinas message and his public admiration for Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister during the 1982 war.

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The homeland is neither sold nor acted out.

“The homeland is neither sold nor acted out,” Kicillof wrote. He said sovereignty must be defended every day and argued that the country needed a president who defended it through government action, including by building schools, roads and hospitals before the end of the administration.

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The only national interests this government has defended are those of the United States.