‘Lovely’ Mexican President Shows Trump the Door
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rebuffed President Donald Trump‘s push for U.S. troops to cross the border into Mexico to assist combat the drug cartels.
Calling Sheinbaum a “pretty lady”, Trump however confirmed that his proposal was snubbed as he spoke with reporters on Air Power One on Sunday whereas flying again to Washington, DC.
The president stated it was “true” he made the pitch. He stated he got here up with the thought as a result of the cartels “are horrible folks which have been killing folks left and proper.”
Trump stated the cartels have made a fortune “on promoting medicine and destroying our folks” and that if Mexico wished assist with the cartels, he could be “honored to go in and do it.”
His feedback got here after Sheinbaum revealed that she had soundly dismissed the thought of U.S. troops coming into her nation.
“He stated ‘How can we show you how to combat drug trafficking? I suggest that the USA military are available and show you how to,’” she recalled on Saturday.
Sheinbaum stated she advised the president no, “Sovereignty just isn’t on the market. Sovereignty is cherished and defended.”
She added that she proposed that the 2 international locations work collectively however “with you in your territory and us in ours.”
The feedback by each world leaders confirmed a proposal first reported by the Wall Street Journal final week. It stated the provide was made throughout a tense 45-minute telephone dialog on April 16.
Talking to reporters on Sunday, Trump praised the president of Mexico as a “pretty lady” however he claimed that she was “so afraid of the cartels that she will’t even assume straight.”
Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time Sheinbaum has rejected a Trump proposal since he was elected to a second time period.
In contrast to another world leaders, together with these in Canada, the 62-year-old Mexican chief seems to be having far more success in standing as much as the president with out upsetting his wrath.
In January, Sheinbaum supplied up a sarcastic response to Trump’s name for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the “Gulf of America.”
She additionally managed to efficiently defend Mexico, no less than briefly, from the president’s risk to impose sweeping 25 p.c tariffs on Mexican imports as he pushed the southern neighbor to do extra to fight the move of fentanyl throughout the border into the U.S.
On the similar time, the president additionally reversed course final week to slap tariffs on auto components manufactured south of the border.
