Posted on 06/29/2016 6:13:38 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
In March of this year, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto compared Donald Trump to Hitler and Mussolini. At the time, Peña Nieto said that Trump’s rhetoric was “the way that Mussolini arrived and the way Hitler arrived.”
At a press conference today with President Obama and Canadian President Trudeau, Peña Nieto was asked if he stood by those remarks. Peña Nieto wordily replied that over decades, the world has made tremendous economic progress, but that “some” want to destroy what has been built. That is what Hitler and Mussolini did, said Peña Nieto. In concluding, Peña Nieto said “that was my message” in March. So rather than repudiating his attack on Trump, Peña Nieto doubled down on the Hitler/Mussolini comparison. Note also that although it is not in the transcript available to me, the MSNBC screen graphic has Peña Nieto saying, presumably in reference to Trump, that some “demagogues” want to destroy what has been built over decades.
View the video here.
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Benito Mussolini was named after Mexican revolutionary Benito Juarez. The parallels between Mexico and fascism run deep. Also, if any American elected official told the Mexicans how to vote in Mexican elections the Mexican government would go ballistic, and rightly so. The hypocrisy of the Mexican elites has no bounds.
It’s not smart to slam the future President of the United States if you will be in a position to want favors later on. You are digging your own hole.
BTW.. I wonder if terrorists know if they attack the US, it will make more votes for Trump. All the public needs is to be more afraid and more aware of the danger out there brought about by the current chicken in chief.
Don’t mean to be picky but it is Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, not President.
He’s just the Leader of the Liberal Party and that makes him Prime Minister ,only the people in his Riding voted for him
Something like 100% of Mexicans live in North America.
Ridiculous.
Unfortunately most Mexicans are too poorly educated to notice the hyperbole.
The "Three Amigos" are having a grand old time, aren't they?
No surprise there.
Another meaningful endorsement!
Oh ,I heard the “translation”, because this white bread MF can’t be bothered to speak English.
He definitely called Trump the H and M words.
He’s a white European corruptocrat Caucasian arch criminal busy with unloading his “native” population to the USA as fast as our FAGGOT in Chief HUSSEIN BARAKA will spread them around.
I’ll take Hitler,Mussolini, and Stalin over these three douchebags (Trudeau) any day of the week.
Mexico must have it pretty good for him to be this brazen. President Nieto would do well to shut his mouth,should Trump win I wouldn’t forget this disrespect.
3 men who want 3 countries to form an Axis. We’ve heard this tune before.
Complaining about someone who doesn’t buy it.
And Hitler’s Navy landed their submarines in Mexico to refuel and reload torpedoes during WWII.
Thanks, appreciate the correction, which I will make in the original article.
The Three Pendejos is more like it and probably not spelled right.
Yet when does the Mexican President want to address the reality of the gun running?
BUMP!
Normally, we call those demagogues who want to destroy everything "socialists." But it is equally accurate to call them "leftists" or "democrats." And they aren't just trying to destroy the work of decades; they are working on destroying hundreds of years of human progress. Hence, their name for themselves: "progressives."
What I have said is that in the world we're living, in different places we have political leaders, political stakeholders that use demagoguery and have the populistic slogan that want to eliminate and destroy what has been built, what has taken decades to build, to go back to problems of the past.And yes, it is true, all the benefits have not reached society as a whole. That is true. But those leaderships, those political actors by using populism and demagoguery, they choose the easiest way to solve the challenges of today's world. And things are not that simplistic.
It's not as easy as that, to lead a country, to take on a responsibility to rule a country, it goes beyond giving the easiest answer. It is complex and it is difficult to lead a country. And I just said it, what we have reached so far, the level of development, the level of well being that we have in the world, without a doubt makes contrast with what -- the situation that we leave 30 years back -- never before, a global society or the societies at least of our three countries has lived the level of development and well being that we enjoy today.
Never before have our countries had a high life expectancy as we have today. Never before have we had the opportunity to have access to the knowledge of the world as fast and as easy as we do today. Never before, we're in such a level of connection between society and the possibility of having access to any product from any corner of the world as we do today.
And that was built throughout the years by using the model based on openness, free trade, trade agreements. And the biggest challenge today is to make sure that those benefits reach out to every single citizen. But the solution proposed by some (ph) is not by destroying what we have built, it is not taking a different route to choose a roads toward isolationism and destruction.
What we need to do is keep up the pace toward development. And when I said that, I mentioned that most of what some people say, it is very similar that in the past -- and President Obama already said it, even years back -- but in the past, some leaders addressed their societies in those terms. Hitler and Mussolini did that. And the outcome, it's clear to everyone, it resulted in devastation and turned out to be a tragedy for mankind, and we saw it last century.
I have a hard time making sense of his remarks. Either something is lost in translation, or he is as stupid/duplicitous as Obama.
As for the commie lib media's cutesy "three amigos" bull****, that's just a redux of an old joke. "A black guy, a Mexican and a Frenchie walk into a bar..." Sad that the joke is on us.
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