A spokesman for Argentina’s president has denied that
Donald Trump asked for a business favour when Mauricio Macri called the US president-elect to congratulate him on his victory....
Macri’s spokesman, Iván Pavlovsky, denied the report. “Macri did not speak to
Donald Trump about the building of the tower,” he said. “They only talked about continuing the relationship between the two countries and recalled their personal relationship from years ago.”
In his own memoirs, Francisco Macri also described his business relationship with Trump, recalling how the real estate tycoon broke his golf clubs in frustration after Mauricio beat him in a golf game during a complicated business negotiation in the 1980s in New York.
But despite such setbacks, the relationship remains close enough that President Macri spoke with Ivanka Trump during last Monday’s phone conversation. “In the call, I also talked with his daughter,”
Macri told the Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun. “I have known her since her infant days.”
Macri’s spokesman said that the Argentinian president did not discuss Trump Office with Ivanka Trump either.
“He spoke with Ivanka only briefly to say hello because he met her when she
was just a kid,” the spokesman said. “They did not speak about it. The president doesn’t speak about city building permits.”
). Because Trump is a great figurehead, who knows nothing about actual policy...especially foreign.
