‘Latin American Trump’ Rips Woke Davos Elites for LGBT, Abortion, Gender Ideology

Javier Milei challenges the WEF to take a “mea culpa” for its misdeeds and “make the West great again”

Argentinian President Javier Milei (center) at the inauguration for President Donald Trump's second term in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025. A few days later, an emboldened Milei excoriated the global elites at the World Economic Forum for oppressing the citizens of the earth through woke policies.

Argentinian President Javier Milei has sparked protests from LGBTQ+ activists after a fierce attack on the “wokeness” of the World Economic Forum, in which he condemned gender ideology as child abuse and its promoters as pedophiles.

Milei’s invective last Thursday unequivocally demanding the “defense of life, liberty, and private property” is the most scathing speech delivered so far by a world leader in Davos, Switzerland.

Addressing a large gabfest of globalist elites, Milei excoriated “the ideology of monolithic thinking” whose “purpose is to penalize dissent” and promote “feminism, diversity, inclusion, equity, immigration, abortion, environmentalism, and gender ideology.”

The “winds of change are blowing in the West,” Milei said, hailing President Donald Trump’s reelection victory. “Until we remove this abhorrent ideology from our culture, our institutions and our laws, Western civilization — and even the human species — will not be able to return to the path of progress demanded by our pioneering spirit.”

Make the West Great Again

Defining wokeness as “the concept of liberation through state intervention” and castigating it as a “cancer” and a “great epidemic,” the Argentinian president, who is an economist by trade, urged world leaders to embrace “libertarianism” and the “ideas of freedom” as “the last proven thesis of economic and social success.”

“The West represents the pinnacle of human achievement on the fertile ground of its Greco-Roman heritage and Judeo-Christian values,” Milei said, challenging the globalists to “make the West great again today” by limiting the “omnipresent Leviathan” of the State and ending the “absolute global hegemony of the woke.”

“And if globally influential institutions like this one wish to turn over a new leaf and participate in good faith in this new paradigm,” he added, “it will have to take responsibility for the role played over the past decades, acknowledging to society the mea culpa that is being demanded of them.”

Milei, who has repeatedly clashed with Pope Francis – going so far as to call him an “imbecile who defends social justice” — attacked “the bloody, murderous abortion agenda” based on “the Malthusian premise that overpopulation will destroy the earth” and “that we must therefore implement some form of population control.”

In fact, he pointed out, global birth rates have now plunged so low that many countries are beginning to panic.

Gender Ideology as Child Abuse

Slamming gender ideology as “outright child abuse,” Milei described its promoters as “pedophiles,” warning that “the scandalous experiments in the name of this criminal ideology will be condemned and likened to those committed in the darkest periods in our history.”

“Healthy children are being irreversibly harmed through hormone treatments and mutilation, as if a five-year-old child could possibly consent to such things,” he said, “and should their family not agree to this, there will always be state agents ready to step in in favor of what they call the best interests of the child. … And covering this multitude of abhorrent practices is the eternal victimhood narrative, always ready to hurl accusations of homophobia, transphobia, and other fabricated terms, whose sole purpose is to silence those of us who dare to expose the scandal — one [in] which both national and international authorities are complicit.”

Gender ideology has “resulted in even greater state intervention through absurd legislation” with “the state having to fund expensive hormone treatments and surgeries to fulfill the self-perception of certain individuals.”

While LGBTQ advocates attempt “to impose the idea that women are men and men are women simply based on self-perception” they “say nothing about when a man dresses as a woman and kills his opponent in a boxing ring, or when a male prison inmate claims to be a woman and ends up sexually assaulting women in prison,” Milei warned.

The president cited the case of William and Zachary Zulock, a homosexual couple from Georgia “who championed the banners of sexual diversity and were sentenced to 100 years in prison for abusing and filming their adopted children for more than two years.” The victims are two brothers, now 12 and 10, who were adopted from a Christian special-needs adoption agency.

Immigration as Reverse Colonization

“Is it not true that right now, as we speak, in the UK citizens are being imprisoned for exposing horrifying crimes committed by Muslim migrants, crimes that the government seeks to conceal?” Milei asked, addressing the issue of the rape gangs comprised largely of Pakistani Muslim men who sexually abused over half a million white underage girls in 50 towns across Britain over the last two decades.

“This is how we now see … hordes of immigrants who abuse, assault, or even kill European citizens, whose only sin was not adhering to a particular religion,” he added. “But when someone questions these situations, they are immediately labelled racists, xenophobic or even Nazis.”

Wokeness has “distorted” the issue of immigration,” Milei said. “Since the West is supposedly the root cause of all of the world’s evils in history, it must redeem itself by opening its borders to everyone, which leads to a form of reverse colonization that resembles collective suicide.”

Argentina, the U.S., and many other countries “became great thanks to immigrants who left their homelands in search of new opportunities,” he pointed out before noting that “we have shifted from attracting foreign talent to foster development to now embracing mass immigration, driven not by national interests but by guilt.”

Fanatical Malthusian Environmentalism

The president also blasted the doctrine of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in businesses, public institutions, and educational establishments for casting merit aside and inventing quotas for “every minority politicians can come up with, which ends up undermining the excellence of institutions.”

Analyzing how wokeness works by manipulation and coercion, Milei explained that its

first strategy is to discredit those of us who challenge these things first by labeling us and then by silencing us. If you’re white, you must be racist. If you’re a man, you must be a misogynist or part of the patriarchy. If you’re rich, you must be a cruel capitalist. If you’re heterosexual, you must be heteronormative, homophobic, or transphobic.

Wokeness manifested in a “sinister radical” and “fanatical environmentalism” by perverting the “common sense” idea of preserving the planet for future generations and replacing it with an ideology where “humans are seen as a cancer that must be eradicated and economic development is considered little more than a crime against nature,” he lamented.

“And yet, when we argue that the earth has already gone through five abrupt temperature change cycles, and that during four of those men was not even around, we are called ‘flat-earthers’ in order to discredit our ideas, even though science and the data are on our side,” Milei said.

On Saturday, Argentina’s LGBTQ+ community turned out nationwide to condemn Milei’s remarks and call for an anti-fascist, anti-racist pride march to be held on February 1, the Buenos Aires Herald reported.

Emboldened by Tump’s victory, Milei has robustly responded to his opponents. Earlier at the WEF conference, he annouced that he no longer felt alone because he has found an increasing number of allies “in this fight for the ideas of freedom in every corner of the world” — from Elon Musk in the U.S. to Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.

“Slowly,” he said, “an international alliance has been forming among all those nations which, like ours, want to be free and believe in the ideas of liberty.”

Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.