Mexican Honor is at stake. It sounds to me if you understand people from Mexico if Trump became president that they might be forced to "Declare War on the U.S." Honor is very important to the Mexican people. Trump doesn't understand this because he lives in New York in an ivory tower far away from the Mexican People. But, I grew up in California. Mexico might just have to declare war on the U.S. if Trump became president just to satisfy their sense of honor. You think I'm kidding? I'm not.
Reversing
a more diplomatic tone he set during a joint appearance with Donald
Trump in the Mexican capital, President Enrique Peña Nieto called the
Republican presidential candidate’s ideas a “threat to the future of …
Mexican president calls Trump's ideas 'a threat to the future of Mexico'
Reversing
a more diplomatic tone he set during a joint appearance with Donald
Trump in the Mexican capital, President Enrique Peña Nieto called the
Republican presidential candidate’s ideas a “threat to the future of
Mexico.”
Peña Nieto’s hostile words came Wednesday night, hours
after he met privately with Trump and shortly after the real estate
mogul delivered an incendiary speech in Phoenix in which he
repeatedly portrayed immigrants in the U.S. as dangerous criminals and
vowed to force Mexico to pay for construction of a border wall.
Peña
Nieto said Trump’s proposal to end free trade agreements and deport
millions of immigrants are a danger to Mexico. “Imagine what that
represents, and tell me it is not a risk to Mexico,” he said.
Whenthe
president appeared side by side with Trump after their meeting at his
residence in Mexico City, Peña Nieto described the meeting as “open and constructive,” and
said there had been “misunderstandings” about Trump’s comments about
Mexicans in the past. They shook hands before they parted.
But
in the interview with Televisa’s Denise Maerker on Wednesday night, Peña
Nieto said Trump’s ideas were dangerous, and said he had invited Trump
to Mexico precisely because of the danger the candidate would pose to
Mexico if elected.
“I think this risk and threat must be addressed,” he said. “You have to face it head on.”
Trump
and Peña Nieto emerged from their meeting with competing narratives
around Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump
told journalists that the pair never discussed who would pay for
construction of such a barrier. “We didn’t discuss payment of
the wall,” Trump said, adding that such a conversation would come “at a
later date.”
Peña Nieto remained silent on the issue then. But a few hours later, he tweeted that the subject had come up immediately.
“At
the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear
that Mexico will not pay for the wall,” Peña Nieto wrote.
Trump
and the Mexican president aired their differences again on Thursday,
beginning when Trump tweeted: “Mexico will pay for the wall!”
Peña
Nieto responded shortly after with a tweet of his own: “I repeat what I
told you personally, Mr. Trump: Mexico will never pay for a wall.” Peña
Nieto’s decision to host Trump has been widely panned in Mexico, where
people are deeply offended by Trump’s frequent and harsh criticism of
Mexico and Mexican immigrants over the past year of campaigning. Former
President Vicente Fox called Peña Nieto, who has been suffering badly in
public opinion polls in recent months, “a traitor.”
Those feelings intensified Wednesday night after Trump delivered a fiery immigration speech
in Arizona in which he doubled down on that rhetoric, painting
immigrants in the country illegally largely as criminals who pose a risk
to the United States. Trump also reiterated his plans to build a border
wall and have Mexico pay for it, saying, “They don’t know it yet, but
they’re going to pay for the wall.”
“Trump’s visit should be seen
as a new low for an already embattled president,” Mexican historian Leon
Krauze wrote of Peña Nieto in the Washington Post.
In the
interview Wednesday night, Peña Nieto defended his decision to meet with
Trump, which he said was important given the close economic and
cultural ties of the U.S. and Mexico. The president said he thought he
had helped change Trump’s views on at least one point: free trade
agreements.
While Trump has said in the past that he would leave
the North American Free Trade Agreement if elected, on Wednesday, the
candidate told reporters in Mexico City that he supported a
renegotiation of the deal.
“I appreciate the change in tone,” Peña Nieto said.
In
an opinion piece published Thursday morning in the newspaper El
Universal, Peña Nieto again sought to explain why he invited Trump to
Mexico.
“In his campaign speeches, Trump has not treated us as
partners or as allies, thanks to a distorted vision of Mexico and its
people,” he said. “This is why it was important to talk to him and
clarify that future dialogue between the two countries needs to start
from a place of mutual respect.
“I am convinced that the bigger
the differences, the more dialogue is needed,” he said. Trump’s reaction
to his points on that issue, he said, was “positive.” kate.linthicum@latimes.com Twitter: @katelinthicum ALSO Transcript: Donald Trump’s full immigration speech, annotated Donald Trump strikes a softer tone in Mexico but holds fast on his stand against illegal immigration Trump’s Mexico visit stirs outrage: ‘We don’t want him’
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