President Javier Milei once again turned the press into the central target of his political fury during the long weekend, with a barrage of posts, reposts, and disqualifications that prompted a new public warning from FOPEA. The organization spoke of an "escalation of presidential aggression against the press" and the institutional gravity of the head of the Executive Branch replicating hateful messages against journalists. In this context, verbal aggression ceases to seem like a gesture of strength and begins to be read as a form of helplessness. Milei has every reason to firmly denounce a potential foreign disinformation operation if there was indeed a plot financed from Russia to poison the Argentine public debate. And in an economy where confidence is as valuable as reserves or fiscal figures, presidential nervousness also ends up having a cost. Justice should give the President and Argentines the answers they deserve. A president who insults without pause can excite his hard core; a president who fails to order the economic and political front begins to lose the rest. Argentina needs something else. And when the noise subsides, the underlying question reappears: what is happening with the real economy and why does the government seem increasingly absorbed by symbolic battles while the purchasing power erodes and expectations cool. And the country also needs the head of state to understand that authority is not built by insults. The permanent fight with journalists and the media does not displace social anxiety over salaries, work, and the cost of living; it only covers it up for a few hours with political noise. The country needs to thoroughly investigate any network of fake news financed from abroad. It needs every official to give serious explanations when they come under suspicion. Because if the power reacts with fury every time it feels cornered, what it transmits is not control but nervousness.
