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vkkv

(3,384 posts)
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 07:05 PM Aug 2016

Mexican President Fact-Checks Trump’s Lies During Painfully Awkward Joint Press Conference

Source: CNN / Reverb Press


Trump Gets Shut Down – With Facts

After months of the GOP nominee crying that illegal immigration is out of control and on the rise and threatening the very way of life in America, President Peña Nieto shut Trump down. And he did it using the very thing that Republicans find so scary…

Facts.

“Undocumented immigration from Mexico to the U.S. had its highest point 10 years ago and it has slowed down consistently, even to the point of being negative in a net effect at this point.”

Yeah. That doesn’t really fit into Trump’s narrative, does it? But it’s harder to get people to vote for you and your anti-brown-person stance if you don’t give them brown people to be scared about.

You can’t.

And Donald knows that, which is why he has spent the last year whipping his base into a rabid frenzy over Mexicans, promising them that not only will he build a wall to keep ’em out – he’d make ’em pay for it, too.

President Of Mexico Completely Dismissed Trump’s Campaign Foundation

President Peña Nieto didn’t just stop there, either. He coolly dismissed Trump’s wildly inaccurate, but oft-repeated, portrayal of the border between the U.S. and Mexico as some sort of one-way portal that freely allows Mexicans access into the US. as a “clearly incomplete version” that simply “doesn’t account for the illegal flow” of money and firearms that goes into Mexico from the United States.

Boom.

Read more: http://reverbpress.com/news/mexican-pres-donald-trump-press-conference/

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Mexican President Fact-Checks Trump’s Lies During Painfully Awkward Joint Press Conference (Original Post) vkkv Aug 2016 OP
There was one man looking Presidential in the room, and not just because he is a President. Coyotl Aug 2016 #1
I think that if the Lord God Almighty Himself came down and issued drumpf... ailsagirl Aug 2016 #2
What an embarrassment he is, lurching, oblivious, bloated, and pig-faced. This represents our USA? NBachers Aug 2016 #3
I don't think Hillary's health colorado_ufo Aug 2016 #5
Let's talk about that flow of money and firearms. Oh, and the contributions LuckyLib Aug 2016 #4
Ouch! That's going to leave a mark.... Moonwalk Aug 2016 #6
If it doesn't Pakid Aug 2016 #7
Whaddya think? Plucketeer Aug 2016 #8
Out of touch is how I'd put it. ffr Sep 2016 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author OKNancy Sep 2016 #10
 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
1. There was one man looking Presidential in the room, and not just because he is a President.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 07:15 PM
Aug 2016

Something Trump will never be.

ailsagirl

(22,885 posts)
2. I think that if the Lord God Almighty Himself came down and issued drumpf...
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:08 PM
Aug 2016

a stern warning, drumpf would just thumb his nose.

Nothing seems to faze him. It's so bizarre to me.

colorado_ufo

(5,730 posts)
5. I don't think Hillary's health
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:30 PM
Aug 2016

is the person's health he should be concerned about. You can only deflect some problems just so far - it shows in his face. The reality is, he is no spring chicken, and women generally outlive men.

LuckyLib

(6,817 posts)
4. Let's talk about that flow of money and firearms. Oh, and the contributions
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:29 PM
Aug 2016

Mexican and Mexican American labor has made and continues to make to the American economy. EPN and the Mexican people saw right through his jive. "I love Mexicans." Sure you do, Donald, you racist SOB.

Moonwalk

(2,322 posts)
6. Ouch! That's going to leave a mark....
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:34 PM
Aug 2016

...I don't envy M$M having to try and spin this one. I don't think even shouts of "Look over there! Benghazi! Emails! Blood clots! Suspicious Charity!" Are going to work this time.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
8. Whaddya think?
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 09:57 PM
Aug 2016

Should Dump go visit some more world leaders? I think so! He could show us even more of his communicator prowess! LOL!!!!

ffr

(22,665 posts)
9. Out of touch is how I'd put it.
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 03:37 AM
Sep 2016

The talks tough guy arrives in the house of the people he's been talking tough about, gets his ass handed to him verbally, but is too uneducated to understand the foreign language. Then he reads a pre-written statement of blah-blah-blah, thinks he nailed it finally, only to one day catch up to the fact that he was owned by the Mexican president. That's called doing something stupid. It's undiplomatic and unpresidential.

Faux Entertainment will spin this as a victory for Drumpf as anyone would expect their propaganda machine to do. But the telling of whether or not they actually felt being made to look stupid, will be if Drumpf's handlers let him out of the country for another idiotic stunt like this one.

How embarrassing!

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