Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals

[demmiblue]

Source: The Washington Post

President Trump made building a wall along the southern U.S. border and forcing Mexico to pay for it core pledges of his campaign.

But in his first White House call with Mexico’s president, Trump described his vow to charge Mexico as a growing political problem, pressuring the Mexican leader to stop saying publicly that his government would never pay.

“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump said repeatedly, according to a transcript of the Jan. 27 call obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made clear that he realized the funding would have to come from other sources but threatened to cut off contact if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued to make defiant statements.

The funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said, adding later that “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay.” But “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”

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The Jan. 28 call with Turnbull became particularly acrimonious. “I have had it,” Trump erupted after the two argued about an agreement on refugees. “I have been making these calls all day, and this is the most unpleasant call all day.”

Before ending the call, Trump noted that at least one of his conversations that day had gone far more smoothly. “Putin was a pleasant call,” Trump said, referring to Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. “This is ridiculous.”

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[Achilleaze]

1. "Putin was a pleasant call." - republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

Screw the republican TreasonWeasels and their ass kissing of the freaking evil empire* russia waging ongoing ACTS OF WAR** on America.

* per ronald reagan
** per dick cheney and all 17 US Intelligence Agencies

[Doodley]

2. Everything comes back to his infatuation with Vladimir Putin

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Weak sad little half man

bowing down and begging the Mexican president. Then lying to the public when he knew the USA was going to fund the wall. Deceitful weak sad little half man.

[demmiblue]

4. More with Turnbull:

But the conversation devolved into a blistering exchange over a U.S. agreement to accept refugees from Australian detention centers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and the island nation of Nauru. The Obama administration had agreed to accept some of those being detained on humanitarian grounds after intervention by the United Nations.

At one point, Trump expressed admiration for Australia’s refusal to allow refugees arriving on boats to reach its shores, saying it “is a good idea. We should do that too.” In a remark apparently meant as a compliment, Trump told Turnbull, “You are worse than I am.”

But the conversation rapidly deteriorated.

“I hate taking these people,” Trump said. “I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people” — an apparent reference to U.S. dairy farms.

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Trump only became angrier, saying the refugees could “become the Boston bomber in five years.”

[lpbk2713]

5. "Be reasonable. Do it my way."

Dumphuk.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. And Drumpf wonders why he didn't step in line