Trump: Mexico should cancel meeting if it won't pay for wall
Source: Reuters
26 JAN 2017 AT 10:11 ET
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto, should cancel his scheduled visit to Washington if Mexico refuses to pay for a wall he has ordered constructed along the border.
The U.S. has a 60 billion dollar trade deficit with Mexico. It has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers of jobs and companies lost. If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting, Trump said on Twitter.
His message could undo a planned summit next week during which the two leaders were expected to address a relationship frayed by the new U.S. presidents determination to build a wall along their shared border and to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Even before Trumps tweet, Pena Nieto faced growing pressure at home to scrap the meeting over objections to the border wall.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-mexico-should-cancel-meeting-if-it-wont-pay-for-wall/
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Welcome to the age of diplomacy by Twitter.
Totally insane.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)They are the ones that have economically benefited from their labor.
dhill926
(16,358 posts)but LOVE the idea....
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,305 posts)is a very good tactic
Let him twist in the wind
nini
(16,672 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)Bayard
(22,157 posts)Or I'll take my ball and go home. Shouldn't his wonderful new Secretary of State be involved in this? You know--that diplomacy stuff?
Calista241
(5,586 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Good news is that in 2018 Mexico will get a leftwing nationalist who won't be inclined to support the USA's catastrophic war on drugs.
Moral Compass
(1,526 posts)Trump suggested that Nieto cancel and then Nieto cancelled.
Lochloosa
(16,069 posts)Nash Teeth
(57 posts)Thanks for the tip. Saved me a trip."