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kentuck

(110,950 posts)
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:22 PM Aug 2016

The Mexican people are very pissed off at their President

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/americas/trump-mexico-pena-nieto-reaction.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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MEXICO CITY — If President Enrique Peña Nieto invited Donald J. Trump to visit Mexico for a dialogue in the interest of democracy, the message has fallen on deaf ears.

Instead, the predominant feeling here in the Mexican capital is one of betrayal.

“It’s a historic error,” said Enrique Krauze, a well-known historian. “You confront tyrants, you don’t appease them.”

On Mexico’s most popular morning television show on Wednesday, a livid Mr. Krauze likened the president’s meeting with Mr. Trump to the decision by Neville Chamberlain, then the British prime minister, to sit down with Hitler in Munich in 1938.

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Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
4. They should be pissed. Their president damn near offered Mexico to Trump as a colony.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:27 PM
Aug 2016

The Mexican President just did what Trump and the Republicans have been unable to do, make Trump look very strong and very presidential. Today was a very bad day for the U.S. and Mexico.

megahertz

(126 posts)
6. You're very worried. You keep saying Trump looks very strong and Presidential.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:44 PM
Aug 2016

In a few threads, you mention that repeatedly.

I don't think Trump's visit will have much impact.

 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
7. The Mexican president gave Trump an international stage to look very presidential.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:54 PM
Aug 2016

Let me ask you this, has Trump had a better day on the campaign trail since the convention ?

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
9. the key words that I would disagree with are....
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:00 PM
Aug 2016

"look very presidential". Maybe Obama can appoint him Ambassador to Mexico, so he will have some authority to speak in a negotiating manner to the authorities of another sovereign nation. If Obama wanted the FBI to arrest him at the border, he would be in his authority. Donald Trump is not exempt from the Logan Act.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
13. I think we should be careful with first impressions and assumptions...
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 07:15 PM
Aug 2016

Hopefully he has not started a firestorm down there?

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