I’ll wait to see how this all clears out before I state my opinion.
Sheesh, we all know Trump is a fuh-fuh-fucking liar.
I would have thought EPN knew he was talking with someone that has no problem lying, changing positions and throwing whoever who is near him under the bus.
Come on, now! Trump doesn’t understand Spanish. Or, English, for that matter.
Trump will now threaten to embargo remittances. $538 billion in remittances were logged from a global diaspora in 2014.
Neville Chamberlain better watch out. He’s now seeming a bit less popular than Elias Boudinot of the Cherokee Treaty Party. Things didn’t end well for him. What a sucker.
http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1588
So two users met today to mutually use each other and now one of the users is miffed that the other user used him and then lied about it.
And this is surprising to El Presidente how?
Of course, the time for Pena Nieto to say this was when he was standing beside Trump in Mexico City. I still can’t figure out why Pena Nieto, who is polling at 23% in his own country, agreed to meet with Trump, who is polling at 7%. This could only hurt Pena Nieto and boost Trump. My bet (only half kidding) is that someone should check Pena Nieto’s bank account and see if there has been an unexplained deposit.
Why wouldn’t he have said that to him? Does anyone have any trouble telling who is lying here? If you are Donaldhead, and you love him, and he has never triggered your bullshit meter, you are a fucking complete moron.
Too late getting that shit back in the goose. You let Trump walk all over you in the presser and didn’t contradict his lies when you could have.
Whether the truth of the matter is that “who pays for it” did come up, and whether or not you said emphatically to Trump that Mexico wouldn’t, none of that matters.
That was a private conversation nobody has a recording of and you stood their and didn’t correct Trump’s lies at the presser.
You screwed the pooch on all fronts and Trump is getting a blow job from the U.S. media heathers over it all.
Well done dipshit.
Pena Nieto played right into Trump’s tiny hands by failing to call him on his lie during their joint press conference. Perhaps Pena Nieto was just being diplomatic, but Trump is the anti-diplomat, and should not be allowed to use the normal niceties of international relations to his advantage.
The Mexicans had better f-n have a TAPE of this interchange. They had better prove Trump wrong and a lier. Pinyata is already going down for having punked for Trump, but if he lied about this he might as well run to the Russian Embassy and Ask for asylum now.
< dRump > Not true, Nieto has great respect for me and told me some guy named Pinche Pendejo would foot the bill. I assume he’s Pena’s cousin or something. < dRump >
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) President Barack Obama defended his decision on Wednesday to issue a payment of five billion dollars to Mexico to compel that nation to retain custody of Donald J. Trump.
The payment, which will be delivered to the Mexican government in hard American currency by Wednesday afternoon, will insure that Trump will remain in Mexico for the rest of his natural life.
“I have been assured by the government of Mexico that Mr. Trump will be well taken care of and, if he proves to be a productive member of their society, will be provided a pathway to Mexican citizenship,” Obama said.
While the transfer of funds to Mexico sparked howls of protest from some Trump supporters, it was hailed by congressional Democrats, as well as by over a hundred Republicans currently running for reëlection, including Arizona Senator John McCain.
The President bristled at the suggestion that paying Mexico to keep Trump was “reverse ransom” and an extravagant use of taxpayer money. “There is only one accurate word for this payment: a bargain,” he said.
Who cares if they discussed it or not?
Trump told us that Mexico was going to pay for the wall. By his own version of the events, when Trump had the opportunity to demand this from the Mexican President, he acted like the coward he is.
Jim Newell of Slate, who’s not a dumb guy by any stretch himself, offers this theory: that EPN, with a favorable rating in the low 20s, doesn’t know what he’s doing. Pretty hard to argue with.
Oh, if this was only true!
He already has his spin lined up. “This was a preliminary meeting”.
Edit to add from CNN:
Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, called the meeting “the first part of the discussion and a relationship builder” between the two men, after Peña Nieto tweeted.
“It was not a negotiation, and that would have been inappropriate. It is unsurprising that they hold two different views on this issue, and we look forward to continuing the conversation,” he said in a statement.
When they emerged from the meeting, Trump told reporters they discussed the wall, but not paying for it.
Hours later, Peña Nieto tweeted his version: "At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made clear that Mexico would not pay for the wall."
These two statements are not inconsistent with each other.
My thought exactly. And I am not at all kidding.