The Mexican president Enrico Pena Nieto’s scheduled visit to the US was called off because he refused Donald Trump’s demand that he stop publicly saying that Mexico would not pay for Trump’s beloved wall. One of Trump’s favorite lines to his adoring crowds during his campaign and even after winning the election, is that the wall will be built and that Mexico would pay for it and it irritated him that Nieto would keep denying this.
But Trump keeps plugging away and at a rally yesterday he even raised the stakes by saying, “In the end, Mexico’s paying for the wall. They’re going to pay for the wall, and they’re going to enjoy it.”
The statement that they would enjoy paying for the wall sounded like the kind of threat gangsters use when commanding someone to do their bidding and the Mexican president was so annoyed that he immediately shot off his own emphatic tweet that said:
“President @realDonaldTrump: NO. Mexico will NEVER pay for a wall. Not now, not ever.
Sincerely, Mexico (all of us).”
Looks like it’s going to be a long time before Trump and Pena Nieto get together. The only possibility is if they absolutely need to get together over the NAFTA negotiations.
But these twitter responses and rebuttals , play into Trumps hand.
I wish everyone would respond to Trump with the same mockery -- Something like Jared , your sugar daddy needs his diaper changed everytime he goes on a rant.
Or as former president, Vicente Fox, put it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZKrn7Bbl8
Mexico would be much better off if it adopted the Portugal model of drug intervention, though a complete legalization of all or almost all drugs would reduce drug violence and its attendant political corruption.
SAy Donald, when’s that terrific cheap health care for all coming out?
In this age of “franchise reboots,” we need to launch a new Golgafrincham Ark B.
It’s kind of amazing that anyone would believe that story in the first place. Maybe Trump floated it as a sort of a social science experiment to select “voters that believe everything.”