Posted on 01/26/2017 8:33:12 AM PST by BradtotheBone
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government had no immediate reaction to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that appeared aimed at canceling a planned Jan. 31 meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Trump tweeted Thursday that "If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting" in Washington D.C.
Trump said Wednesday he would start building a U.S.-Mexico border wall and vowed to make Mexico pay for it. Mexico opposes the wall and has repeatedly said it won't pay for it.
Mexican officials said there was no immediate reaction to Trump's tweet. Officials said Wednesday Mexico was "considering" canceling.
Former foreign relations secretary Jorge Castaneda told local media "Pena Nieto has no other choice but to say 'I'm not going.'"
Trump's unusual, voluble and unpredictable style appeared to catch Mexico's normally quiet and cautious diplomacy off guard.
Finance Secretary Jose Antonio Meade told Grupo Formula radio that "I think that, in general, diplomacy is not conducted via Twitter."
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Better be careful here. The Mexican government does not possess nuclear capabilities, but they could invade our country with millions of their citizens....oh wait..
And he pushed back. Not overwhelmingly but hard enough to get their attention quickly. He could have done far worse.
Next up China, that will be interesting. They tested Bush 43 and Obumbler and both failed.
That makes sense. I just saw a headline somewhere that said Mexico was canceling the meeting, as if it was their idea. More fake news, I suppose. Can’t we just pay for it by canceling the over 400 million dollars we send to Mexico in foreign aid each year? We don’t need Mexico to do anything. We will just add it to their bill.
I'm reading it right now.
Published 30 years ago.
His enemies should have memorized it, as it gives insight into the man.
It was no secret what he stood for, which is mostly just common sense.
The peasants will go communist and become an open enemy of the US. They will show the “elite” and starve themselves to death.
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