Thread: Report: In a 'humiliating' and 'threatening' tone, Trump lambasted Mexico's president

Report: In a 'humiliating' and 'threatening' tone, Trump lambasted Mexico's president during phone call

Christopher Woody
Feb 1st 2017 2:13PM

During a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday, President Donald Trump reportedly disparaged Mexico and threatened to use military force against the drug trade, according to Washington, DC-based journalist Dolia Estevez.

In an interview with Mexican news outlet Aristegui Noticias, Estevez, who cited sources on both sides of the call, said "it was a very offensive conversation where Trump humiliated Peña Nieto."

Estevez said that while both the White House and the Mexican president released information about the call, both sides characterized it as a "friendly" conversation and neither revealed what was said.

Estevez said she "obtained confidential information" corroborating the content of the discussion.

"I don't need the Mexicans, I don't need Mexico," Trump reportedly told the Mexican president. "We are going to build the wall and you all are going to pay for it, like it or not."

Trump hinted that the US would force Mexico to fund the wall with a tax of 10% on Mexican exports, "and of 35% on those exports that hurt Mexico the most," Estevez wrote in Proyecto Puente.

Prior to the call, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Trump was considering a tax on Mexican imports to pay for the wall.

"He even complained of the bad role the [Mexican] army is playing in the fight against narco trafficking," Estevez, who writes for Forbes and is close to Mexican journalist and anchorwoman Carmen Aristegui, said during an interview with Aristegui's eponymous news outlet.

Trump "even suggested to [Peña Nieto] that if they are incapable of combatting [narco trafficking] he may have to send troops to assume this task," she said.

The US president "said he would not permit the drugs coming from Mexico to continue massacring our cities," Estevez added, saying that Trump went so far as to say, "I really didn't want to go to Mexico last August," referencing Trump's visit to the Mexican capital last year.

Peña Nieto was accompanied on the call by people from his country's foreign ministry, while Trump was joined by "the famous son-in-law," likely meaning Jared Kushner, and strategist Steven Bannon. Kushner is reportedly close to Mexican foreign minister Luis Videgaray, and the two of them were seen as the likely go-betweens for the two governments.

"Before this unusual onslaught, Peña was not firm," Estevez said; rather, "he was stammering."

Despite this confrontation, the Mexican government still believes in conducting negotiations with the Trump administration, Estevez said.

She also reports that there was a meeting between Videgaray and US officials on Tuesday in Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border.

The Mexican foreign minister met with Craig Deare, a member of Trump's national security council handling the Western Hemisphere, Adm. Kurt Tidd, commander of US Southern Command, and with Roberta Jacobson, the current US ambassador to Mexico, though the Mexican foreign ministry has made no mention of the encounter.

Estevez says that the reason for the meeting was to address Mexican cooperation in detaining the flow of Central American migrants through Mexico to the US. However, neither US nor Mexican officials contacted by Estevez would confirm the meeting.

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I don't think this is true, I think it's gossip, but I wish it were!! And maybe it is, President Trump wants to do big and important things for our country and he doesn't have the "inclination" to waste time or money babysitting and daycaring Mexico, Mexicans or anyone else choosing to act like a bunch of helpless babies. You all need to stop your bad acts against our country.

No more extortion money to corrupt Mexico. They are giving 20 day passes to get to the border!

Put our troops on the border and turn them right back around.

Dump them right back on Mexico!