Posted on 07/08/2017 8:25:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In his first meeting as president with his Mexican counterpart, Donald Trump on Friday said he "absolutely" intends for Mexico to pay for the controversial wall he wants to build along the United States' southern border, setting off a furor in Mexico over a goal his own administration has largely abandoned.
Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit here, amid sharp disagreements over trade and immigration. Some officials had hoped the brief encounter could help heal badly strained relations between the two neighbors.
The proposed wall continues to make that difficult.
As journalists were allowed in to see the two leaders take their seats, one reporter asked Trump if he still wanted Mexico to pay for the wall.
"Absolutely," Trump said.
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Nieto probably wet himself right then.
Finally met a Gringo who doesn’t back down to cheap intimidation.
Poor l.a. times. They are not tired of losing. They know Trump has a plan for both the wall and mehico’s eventual funding of it, and he’s working it while they whine.
Why was Mexico at a summit of “world leaders?”
All he really has to do to accomplish this is to promise Peña-Nieto a nice kickback. Trump is doubtlessly experienced in the ways of negotiating construction projects with the mob.
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