2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy would Peņa seek to legitimize Trump?
Seriously? What could possibly be gained for the people of Mexico by legitimizing Trump by inviting him there and giving him a platform to create "presidential optics" for the media?
You and I both know that the media is now going to fawn over Trump standing there at a very official looking podium, speaking calmly and warmly of his "substantive discussion" with Peña Nieto.
Is this guy trying to lose his own next election?
vadermike
(1,415 posts)Where the hell what the hell was Brooklyn thinking by not getting ahead of this garbage This race is gonna be to the wire we are in deep shit
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Election.princeton.edu
Democat
(11,617 posts)It's almost all concern posts. Been reported, but the mods seem unable to see the reports.
Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)You sound troubled....and concerned. Or more concerned and somewhat troubled.
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)Boy do they hold a grudge.
TheBlackAdder
(28,074 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)When Hillary goes, trump will be forgotten again.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)leader like Trump did today will change everything on the Republican side. This is our thanks for defending Mexican immigrants. The president of Mexico just sold us and the Mexican people down the river.
SCliberal91294
(170 posts)about this in two weeks. Especially after his hateful immigration speech tonight.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)his boots today. Millions in campaign ads can't do what that photo op did for Trump today. This Mexican president is a traitor to the world. Total appeasement.
SCliberal91294
(170 posts)has been showing his hateful rhetoric from the last 14 months on Mexico. I would say it's a win-lose either way.
Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)I think you're the one shaking in your boots....lol
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)I don't know what you were watching.
Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)Do tell...lol. You've got an....interesting take on it.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Oh, and the opportunity to look like an old, disheveled idiot who can't read his own language worth a shit.
Trump came off as a fool who had to eat his words while adding new insults to the old injuries he was trying to wash away.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)I'm so disillusioned by the Mexican president's foolishness that I'm beginning to wonder if money changed hands in some overseas bank account.
SCliberal91294
(170 posts)It's a photo op with no substance. It might change 20 voters minds. People don't watch the news every day like we do.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)depressed Republican Party. He needs to moderate for Kasich to deliver Ohio. This Mexican president just hurt us very badly today. In the next two weeks, the poll numbers will make what I'm saying look much clearer. This was a devastating day for our interests. We should never forget what this Amexucan president did to us today.
SCliberal91294
(170 posts)Even after people see all of his awful clips from the past year? I don't think voters are as fluid as you think. Biden and Obama will be on the campaign trail soon also.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Trump stood there and told the Mexican president that he's still building a wall and the Mexican president cowered. Republicans are power hungry nuts. They will point to this day over and over.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Poor guy, he can barely read English, and he was on the wrong side of his own wall
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)And I'm being honest. i think you're overreacting
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)You are indeed quite concerned. And troubled.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Fact is, he looked like death warmed over getting make up applied and hair dyed at the morgue. His rambling nonsense of a blend of apology, insults, and attempting to undo the damage he caused himself for over a year was insulting to everyone of some intelligence. His fear-mongering was stupid in the extreme, but no doubt played well with his core of racist supporters in the USA. His fawning over the "tremendous number" of Mexicans he employs was over-the-top gratuitous blather that can only be perceived as insincere given his past statements.
Well, I better stop before I really get started .... he's not just the Ugly American personified, he's the Piñata of the Century.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)At least that's the recent history of Republican Presidents, liars one and all.
cornball 24
(1,472 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,074 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)That's the Trump/Mexico press conference - - a big fat nothing-burger. All show. No substance. Appearance and emptiness. Trump has not earned my trust. I'm still voting for HRC come Nov.