Donald Trump to Visit Mexico After More Than a Year of Mocking It
Source: nytimes
Donald Trump to Visit Mexico After More Than a Year of Mocking It
By NICK CORASANITI and AZAM AHMED
August 30, 2016
Donald J. Trump will visit Mexico on Wednesday for a private meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto a trip that will take him to a nation he has repeatedly scorned before quickly flying back for what is billed as a major immigration speech in Arizona.
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The Mexican presidents office said Mr. Peña Nieto had sent invitations last week to both Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton. The negotiations for both trips were first reported by The Washington Post. Mrs. Clintons campaign would not comment Tuesday on whether she had received the invitation.
Mr. Peña Nieto is reaching out to Mr. Trump in the face of the Republican candidates antagonistic attitude toward Mexico in his policies and campaign rallies. He has said many Mexican immigrants who enter the United States illegally are rapists, and he has repeatedly insisted that Mexico will pay for his proposed wall along the southern United States border.
He is widely reviled in Mexico, where the wall proposal has revived deep grievances over sovereignty and respect that have historically dogged Mexicos relationship with the United States.
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Gideon Resnick ?@GideonResnick 2h2 hours ago
pretty great headline here http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/us/politics/donald-trump-mexico-enrique-pena-nieto.html
MADem
(135,425 posts)applegrove
(118,023 posts)After all Trump at war was the way his base learnt to love him. Maybe he thinks people will get out of his visit what they want: Republicans wary of Trump will see him talking to the president of Mexico, Trump's rabid base will see him sticking his finger in Mexico's eye?
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Stop him from coming back. I think I'll go over to freeperville and warn them.
riversedge
(69,731 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Obama has started door to door gun confiscation.
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)radical noodle
(7,990 posts)Trump is such a con man, such a manipulator, I can't help but wonder if this is some sort of trick he has planned. He just scares me to death. They had a little bit of his rally tonight and I couldn't help hearing a side of this country that frightens me.
randome
(34,845 posts)It's a general rule of politics not to enter into unpredictable situations or cede control of an event or happening to someone who wants to hurt you. President Nieto definitely does not want Donald Trump to become President. He probably assumes he won't become president, simply by reading the polls. President Nieto is himself quite unpopular at the moment. But no one is more unpopular than Donald Trump. Trump is reviled. Toadying to Trump would be extremely bad politics; standing up to him, good politics.
Put those factors together and Peña Nieto has massive and overlapping reasons to want to embarrass Trump. At a minimum since he's probably not eager to create a true international incident, he has zero interest in appearing in any way accommodating or helpful. The calculus might be different if Trump seemed likely to be the next US President. Mexico is a minor power with the world colossus on its doorstep. But a Trump presidency seems unlikely. Far likelier, Peña Nieto will need to build a relationship with Hillary Clinton. These factors combined make for an inherently dangerous political situation for Donald Trump, especially since the atmospherics of this meeting will be the backdrop for Trump's evening speech which is itself an incredibly important moment and one in which he has set for himself what is likely an impossible challenge.
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radical noodle
(7,990 posts)I'm an old worrier who needed that great input from you.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)This meeting can only help Trump. It is certainly not in Mexico's interests. Why the fuck would Pena Nieto help Trump out by giving him foreign policy credibility?
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)if he can present himself as having gotten concessions from Trump.
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)I know this wouldn't happen even if there were a problem. But I'd love to see dipshit held/arrested for something from his Baja resort failure. As far as I know it was completely settled but it would be nice to see some warrant sitting in the background for him.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,680 posts)follow the money and cross my palm
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Native
(5,935 posts)a date for that meeting just hadn't been set yet.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Or something like that.