Mexican Prez Won't Back Down: I Was ‘Clear’ With Trump We'd Never Fund Wall

[DonViejo]

Soon after Donald Trump crowed on Twitter on Thursday morning that “Mexico will pay for the wall,” embattled Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto published an op-ed saying he was “clear” with Trump that his country would do no such thing.

“In my conversation with Trump about the border, I was also very clear: Mexico will not pay for any wall,” Peña Nieto wrote in Spanish in El Universal, one of Mexico’s highest-circulation newspapers.

The two politicians have offered up differing accounts of their private Wednesday meeting in Mexico City, with Trump claiming they didn’t discuss who would fund his signature wall and Peña Nieto insisting that he told Trump Mexico paying for it was off the table.

Trump effectively treated the visit as a high-profile photo opportunity, praising the Mexican president as a “friend” before traveling to Arizona to deliver a speech that heaped scorn on Mexican immigrants.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Watch the so called Media

spin this into a narrative that Mexico needs to be Invaded and camps set up for all those so called Illegals.

[marybourg]

2. Apparantly they didn't DISCUSS it,

since Pena Nieto said he "would not" pay for a wall and Trump didn't make any response. Hence no DISCUSSION.

[Hortensis]

6. Jose Diaz Balart really expects the president to arrange

a leak of that private meeting to the media. Trump's lack of response should be as damaging among those who love to think of him as a strong man as any response would have been, however much that may be.

[marybourg]

7. Those who love to think of him as a strong man

seem largely unable to concurrently see any flaw in him. That he's "not politically correct" is such a powerful attraction to them that nothing else seems to matter.

[Hortensis]

9. Yes. Some on the far left can be the same way.

Authoritative messages delivered with strong, implacable certitude can apparently be very seductive. I don't do authoritative. I wouldn't assume I would always be completely immune, but I am sure I'd always be alarmed and woke up by the company I found myself keeping.

[oasis]

3. Trump lied. Period

[OB44]

4. He should have never invited him. The man said Mexico SENDS its worst people across the border.

I'm afraid Pres. Nieto got played. Should have chastised Trump at the press conference. Don't see what was to gain by him on the same stage.

[Happyhippychick]

5. They both deserve to slide into oblivion

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. Enrique, with his sad approval numbers, will rue the day he invited the orange assclown. He has to..

know that the only one who would benefit from such a visit would be Trump, so he deserves every bit of scorn that's being heaped on his head right now. Unless he has video evidence of the private meeting, he got played by a pro.