Trump’s Mexico speech a win on style

Today, Trump took a risk and won. He traveled to Mexico and gave a joint press conference with President Enrique Peña Nieto in which both parties appeared respectful of each other despite some obvious differences.

“Mr. Trump and I had an open and constructive discussion,” President Peña Nieto said. He added, “The purpose of our meeting was to get to know each other and to exchange ideas and visions about bilateral relations of our countries.” For his part, Trump described his visit to Mexico as “a great honor.”

One of the obvious areas of disagreement is how to handle the border. President Peña Nieto said the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States had peaked 10 years ago and declined ever since but he acknowledged, “the increasing number of non-Mexicans who cross through our country in order to reach the United States, therein creating serious human crises.”

Peña Nieto said immigration was just one part of the bigger picture at the border, one which did not take into account, “the illegal influx of weapons and money.” “Every year, thousands of weapons and millions of come into Mexico illegally from the north, strengthening drug cartels and other criminal organizations that generate violence in Mexico,” he added.

There was an implied rebuke of some comments Trump made during the primaries. Peña Nieto said, “Mexicans in the United States are honest and hardworking people. They’re persons that are decent, that respect family life and community and that respect the law. As such, Mexicans deserve everyone’s respect.”

Trump then spoke and expressed his love for the United States and his respect for the Mexican people. “The United States’ first, second and third generation Mexicans just beyond reproach, spectacular, spectacular, hard working people,” Trump said. He added, “I have such great respect for them and their strong values of family, faith and community.”

Trump then offered a series of five goals, the first of which was ending illegal immigration. However he framed this goal in humanitarian terms as well as economic ones. “This is a humanitarian disaster,” Trump said. “The dangerous treks, the abuse by gangs and cartels and the extreme physical dangers—and it must be solved.”

Point two on Trump’s list was to recognize, “the right of either country to build a physical barrier, or wall, on any of its borders to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs and weapons.”

Point three was to stop the flow of drugs across the border and to take down the drug cartels. Point four was to improve and update NAFTA and to keep “industry in our hemisphere.” Finally, point five was to “keep manufacturing wealth in our hemisphere.”

Trump closed by saying “Mr. President I want to thank you. It’s been a tremendous honor. And I call you a friend.”

One thing Trump did not mention in his speech today was his frequent promise to make Mexico pay for a wall on the border. When asked about that during the Q&A, Trump replied, “We didn’t discuss that.” When pressed Trump added, “We did discuss the wall. We didn’t discuss payment of the wall. That will be for a later date. This was a very preliminary meeting.”

I’ll bet during the press conference Killary, where ever she’s hiding today, was reclined with a thermometer in her mouth, a blood pressure cuff on her upper arm and a morphine drip ready to be turned on if necessary.

I expect the drip was turned on to a slow drip when Trump said Mexicans are “spectacular” people. Note: he didn’t say illegal aliens are spectacular.

Just the whole idea that Trump did what he did, at a moments notice no less, has to giving Killary, Huma and the rest of the minions severe heartburn.

Yuge Win for Trump.

Yuge-slap-in-the-face for Hillary.

Trump goes into the lions’ den and comes out looking good.

Hillary won’t go even though she claims to be their best friend.

More, please.

Reporting LIVE from Mexico City, at a nice restaurant. All of the patrons were quiet, watching, about 30 some with cell phones connnected live to the speech. IT was big news on the streets of Mexico. Trump made 3 points from a shot outside the circle when he opened with his statement of knowing how to give and receive honor. Something we have sorely missed the last 7 years and 7 months.

Style is only half of it. Leadership encapsulates it. The military defines it as command presence. When Trump enters on stage all eyes turn in his direction. His personal courage, supreme confidence, and unadorned common sense will eventually make believers out of his most ardent adversaries. We haven’t seen a guy like him anywhere on the political scene since Reagan.

After this election I think I am thru with politics. I have no one and no political party to represent me. Looks like the Establishment is getting to Trump.

Trump just reiterated that he will build the Wall . . . while standing next to the president of Mexico, in his own capital city. If that's what the Establishment has wrought, then three cheers for the Establishment!

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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 3:00pm to 11:30pm EDT, 8/31/16:
Coulter hails Trump's 'magnificent' immigration speech –TheHill
A History of Deception [what Cruz said about immigration] –William Saletan
FLASHBACK: Secure Fence Act of 2006 [Hillary voted FOR it] –GovTrack.us
Donald Trump, Mexican President Nieto: Press Conference Mexico 8/31/16 (video)
Like A Boss—Trump’s Impressive “America First” Remarks in Mexico –Sundance
Trump’s Mexico speech a win on style –HotAir
Trump Arrives In Mexico City by Helicopter to Meet Mexican President Pena Nieto (video)
RSBN LIVE from Phoenix, AZ: Pregame Coverage of Donald Trump Rally
Mexico angry at president's 'humiliating' meeting with Trump –AP
Jorge Ramos rips Mexican president for not standing up to Trump –TheHill
Islam, 'Mindslaughter,' and the Catastrophic 'Lewis Doctrine' –PJMedia
Clinton, the Existential Threat –F.R.Newbrough (RPV: RepubPartyVirginia blog)
LEAK: Democrats used cheat sheet to deal with Black Lives Matter –ViceNews
Colin Kaepernick Protest. See what Diamond and Silk have to say about that! (video)
Julian Assange: Reporters letting Clinton 'put nooses around everyone's necks' –BizInsdr
Trump Is Right: Progressives Took Blacks from the Cotton Fields to the Urban Ghetto –Sheriff David Clarke Jr
Judge Orders State Dept to Release Hillary’s Security Training Records –DailyCaller
IRS identified 1.1 million cases of identity theft but didn’t notify victims –HotAir
Donald Trump, Richard Burr have narrow leads in new NC poll –Colin Campbell
Supreme Court denies North Carolina appeal to enforce its voter ID rules –MSN
Trump hit a home run with his meeting with Mexico’s president –CNBC
7-Eleven coffee drinkers may predict the next U.S. president –KDVR
GOP senator calls on FBI to loosen hold on Clinton documents –AP
Hillary's health: clinton emails obssessed with sleep, exotic drugs (video)
Statement on Hillary Clinton’s Speech to the American Legion National Convention –TrumpPence
Nancy Pelosi Memo: Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Created Islamic State –Aaron Klein
Kellyanne Conway Full Interview with Bret Baier (8/30/2016) –
SMOKING GUN Email Implicates ENTIRE Democrat Party In Benghazi Cover-up –PoliticalCulture
Why did the 30 Benghazi emails FBI discovered escape destruction? –Thomas LIfson
Spy found dead in a bag 'had infuriated his MI6 bosses by illegally hacking into secret US data on Bill Clinton' –DM
Ingraham: Clinton is literally hiding behind her big donors (video)
Donate to Trump today [8/31 by midnight] to beat the FEC Aug deadline –TrumpPence

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