Trump issues statement on Mexico

Truth Social ^ | 07/31/2025 | DJT

[Magnum44]

Its almost like Mexico is paying for our border wall.

[RoosterRedux]

What Viktor Orban said about Trump with regard to the EU also applies to Mexico:

“It was not a deal that President Donald Trump made with Ursula von der Leyen — it was Donald Trump eating Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast … the U.S. president is a heavyweight negotiator while Madame President is a featherweight.”

[BigFreakinToad]

“Sheinbaum”? Thats an interesting spanish name

[mikey_hates_everything]

Fentanyl tariff?

[PIF]

Mexico will continue to pay a 25% Fentanyl Tariff

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How does that work? Is it based on the amounts found by the CC and the BP or just guess work?

[rdcbn1]

It works however Donald Trump wants it to work - which changes whenever Trump wants it to change

[delchiante]

If Mexico has at least a 25% tariff on ‘everything’, that could be President trolling our enemy to our South regarding the 25% Fentanyl tariff.

They solve that Fentanyl issue, that tariff may go away(?)

[GOPJ]

Its almost like Mexico is paying for our border wall.

More democrats will be coming down with TDS soon.

[Jamestown1630]

Jewish people have settled all over the world, probably as much or more than other ethnicities. They’ve been in Mexico since the 1500s.

[Sunsong]

Where is the written deal?

[mikey_hates_everything]

"They solve that Fentanyl issue, that tariff may go away(?)"

If they don't solve it, who then counts the quantity or weight to determine the tariff? If it can be counted, then it could be stopped... Is anyone thinking this through?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“a 25% Fentanyl Tariff”

Huh??? Is Fentanyl now a legal import that we are taxing? How does a “Fentanyl Tariff” work?

[fidelis]

"Jewish people have settled all over the world, probably as much or more than other ethnicities. They’ve been in Mexico since the 1500s.

As have people of other nationalities since then including Germans, Irish, and French.

[delchiante]

Like I said, this 25% Fentanyl tariff could be listed as ‘Fetanyl’ but means everything Mexico tries to peddle in the US has a flat 25% , at least, because of Fentanyl issue.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This is good, but I’d be more impressed if Sheinbaum had said “Your special forces are welcome to join us to eradicate the drug cartels and to send your B2 bombers in to level their compounds and palaces.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Sheinbaum”? Thats an interesting Spanish name

I worked with many blonde, upper middle class Mexican professionals with both Western European and Spanish roots. When I first heard Sheinbaum had been elected, I had the same thought as you.

Turns out that German surnames in Mexico often trace back to waves of immigration starting in the 19th century, when the Mexican government under Porfirio Díaz encouraged European settlers for economic development and cultural "whitening" (blanqueamiento). This included merchants, farmers, and industrialists from Germany, as well as later groups like Russian Mennonites fleeing Canada in the 1920s for religious freedom and German-Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 1940s. Many Germans settled in regions like Yucatán, Chiapas, Veracruz, Chihuahua, and Mexico City. Over time, some surnames were Hispanicized (e.g., "Bergmann" becoming "Beltrán" or "Burgos") due to assimilation, while others remained closer to their original forms, especially among insular communities like Mennonites.

Claudia Sheinbaum is the first woman and first Jewish Mexican president. The name is of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, rooted in Yiddish (a Germanic language), combining "sheyn" (beautiful) and "boym" (tree). Her paternal grandparents were Lithuanian Jews who immigrated to Mexico in the 1920s, while her maternal side includes Sephardic Jews from Bulgaria who arrived in the early 1940s to escape the Holocaust. Similar Jewish-German surnames in Mexico often stem from the same refugee wave and include compound names reflecting Yiddish/German roots.

Given the strong Spanish Catholic culture in Mexico, I was really surprised they elected a Jewish woman.

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[exinnj]

As it should be - when tariffs become an instrument of foreign policy conducted by the President.

[enumerated]

I believe it is an additional tariff on everything that will go away if Mexico stops exporting fentanyl to the USA. In other words, it’s not a levy on the product being exported, as with the steel tariff, or the auto tariff - but instead it’s levied on everything as a punishment for fentanyl and human trafficking.

At least that’s my understanding.