For the first time in US history, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to expand the circle of guests at his January 20 inauguration ceremony to include foreign political figures. The crème de la crème of the world's nationalist reactionaries will flock to Washington for this event, financed by millions of dollars from the American tech industry. On the list, which counts less than a thousand guests, are Ecuador's tough young president, Daniel Noboa; El Salvador's self-proclaimed "cool dictator," Nayib Bukele; Argentina's ultraliberal president, Javier Milei; and possibly the very right-wing Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.

On the French far right, Sarah Knafo, MEP of the Reconquête! party, and its president, Eric Zemmour, who received 7% of the vote in the 2022 presidential election, were preferred to the powerful leaders of the Rassemblement National (RN), Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella. George Lombardi, an American businessman who is a regular at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's Florida residence, explained that invites are hard to come by. He said that not even all of the senators and governors of the 50 states were invited.

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