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President of Mexico is crazy (Original Post)
MattP
Aug 2016
OP
Trump will have his ass handed to him, although he'll lie about what happened.
Hieronymus
Aug 2016
#2
The meeting confers upon Trump a legitimacy he in no way merits. The international
KingCharlemagne
Aug 2016
#7
doc03
(35,345 posts)1. Maybe he wants to tell Trump to his face "I am not building
any fucking wall asshole"
Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)2. Trump will have his ass handed to him, although he'll lie about what happened.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)3. The Mexican President just stabbed 11 million of his
compatriots in the back.
Pinche Nieto.
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)4. Did he though?
I'd wait until after the meeting if they do a televised conference. He could confront Donald Trump on his rhetoric. Wouldn't be the first time the Trump campaign walked into a trap (Giving Ted Cruz a primetime spot.)
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)7. The meeting confers upon Trump a legitimacy he in no way merits. The international
community should be uniformly shunning Trump, not feting him and his bozo retinue.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)5. I hope Trump does not get detained...
err..um delayed in making it back for his 'big' speech..
OB44
(27 posts)6. The Mexican President's Spanish translation should be interesting...
If Obama hasn't made a call about this already I would be surprised. This smell like a trap for trump or the new President has some past dealing with Trump we don't know about.
tanyev
(42,564 posts)8. I predict Trump and Nieto emerging with two wildly different accounts of what happened.
lame54
(35,293 posts)9. He has his own PR problems he is trying to fix...
He's desperate
Going toe to toe with Trump and not backing down may help his image