Mexico’s president getting hammered at home – IOTW Report

Mexico’s president getting hammered at home

USATODAY– MEXICO CITY — Unpopular President Enrique Peña Nieto endured a second day of withering attacks Thursday from critics who complained he failed to stand up to Donald Trump during their controversial get-together.

Thursday’s newspaper headlines were unkind. “Trump uses EPN,” the Mexico City daily Reforma said, using the president’s initials. El Universal ran a softer headline: “After the visit, Peña sees the threat in Trump.”

During their meeting Wednesday, Peña Nieto didn’t demand that Trump apologize for calling Mexican migrants rapists and criminals. He also stood silently at their joint news conference while the Republican presidential candidate repeated his promise to build a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

Peña Nieto “had the last word,” Arturo Franco, senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, said Thursday. “There was every opportunity to correct Trump.”  MORE

14 Comments on Mexico’s president getting hammered at home

  1. mexico, one of the most corrupt nations on the planet

    yet, the arrogance to criticize the us is unending, while the flow of illegals continues, mostly made up of people who cannot survive in such a shithole of destitution

    they are all on the take, and the flow of monies works its way to the president, who retires a wealthy wealthy individual

    perhaps the whining is akin to that one would hear from a snotty-nosed, spoiled adolescent whose free ride is about to end

  2. Funny isn’t it?

    Here in America the Liberal and #NeverTrump media are claiming EPN owned Trump who ended up looking like a buffoon. Maybe if Mexicans tuned in to CNN or Erick Big Toe’s site, they’d feel better.

  3. Fuck Mexico and Fuck the Liberals. The fact a country that wants to defend its border from anyone, including a failed shithole like Mexico, is embarrassing at best. Anyone who defends the right for others to enter any country illegally is mentally retarded. That’s right I said the “R” word. Building the wall is symbolic of taking our country back! It means we care about our citizens. The fucking liberal scum is one election away from ending it all and the left must be stopped, nay, destroyed! This is war!

  4. Nieto didn’t apologize for sending Mexican rapists and assorted criminals into the United States or offer to foot the bill for all the yuge costs loaded onto the American taxpayer!

  5. ENP might need Trump. Might even want him to win. Might need a friend…

    “Keep in mind that Pena Nieto is, lately, the arch-enemy of the financial savior of the New York Times, Carlos Slim. The current president of Mexico finally pushed through anti-monopoly legislation that has knocked, last I checked, about $20 billion off Slim’s net worth.”

    http://www.unz.com/isteve/trumps-busy-day/

  6. The plan, as I understand it at present, is to fund the wall by taxing remittances to Mexico sent by the Mexicans in the US.

    Since this was $25 billion sent to Mexico in 2014, if there was a 10% tax on this, it would pay for the wall in four or five years. Though, presumably this amount would drop as the Mexicans are deported.

  7. Do the U.S. taxpayers fork over foreign aid to Mexico? If so, does Congress control the expenditure? Hopefully Trump will get line item veto.

    My guess is a few years of no foreign aid pays for the wall. Seizing drug cartel asserts could go a long way to fund detox of our citizens who have not yet lost their minds from the drugs.

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