Trump goes to Mexico

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Only Trump could go to Mexico.

Every president in recent history has gone to Mexico.

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Surely the local bureaux of the networks have people who can cover this?

EDIT: The American Journalism Review reports that the following organizations had bureaux in Mexico City as of 2011:

- Arizona Republic/USA Today (Chris Hawley)
- Christian Science Monitor (Sara Miller Llana)
- Dallas Morning News (Alfredo Corchado)
- Houston Chronicle (Dudley Althaus)
- Los Angeles Times (Ken Ellingwood, Tracy Wilkinson)
- McClatchy (Tim Johnson)
- New York Times (Randal Archibold, Damien Cave, Elisabeth Malkin)
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post (William Booth)
- AP Latin America desk
- Bloomberg News
- ABC News
- CNN
- NPR

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Treasury Secretary is supporting the president. Mind it: that this is a news tells you quite a bit.

Sounds like a bit like the Labour Party....

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Edit: I think its fake, nevermind.

You think?

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As I said on the other forum the video looks straight out of 1988. And now the audio is jarbled.

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I did not think it possible for a human being to be full of such hot air.

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The whole Pena Nieto-Putin connection angle seems a little too on the nose to be believable.

Now it comes out that they indeed discussed the wall and the Mexican president said his country would not pay for it. This after Trump said he didn't discuss how the wall would be funded in his little meeting

So it turns out the President of Mexico is the biggest low energy loser of all!

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Trump lost to EPN then lied about it. Good visit though, right guys?

EPN was apparently emasculated somewhere in the process, however, if he let Trump get away with lying to about in front of the press, I don't think you could say Trump was the one "lost" here. Trump allowed us to visualize what him being President would actually look like, and although he was as stale as cardboard, it wasn't horrifying, while Pena Nieto was left to impotently "correct the record" hours after the fact.

Now if the media takes Trump to task for claiming to have "not discussed" the key element of his signature policy proposal and the other assorted innovations in his politics he mentioned today, he might also end up a loser. But right now there is one big loser here, who might just end up losing his job over this: Enrique Pena Nieto.

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If what EPN is saying is true then how inept is Donald Trump as a politician. Damn it, I am a Democrat, so I have seen my fair share of inept politicians. But man, Trump manages to air ball a layup every single time.

If EPN is telling the truth, it quite simply means he has no semblance of a backbone. Trump lied, sure, but he did nothing about it. He's the inept one here. Trump meanwhile is a lucky madman for managing to not be corrected until he was out of the country by which time it was all sufficiently hazy enough for his campaign to say whatever they wanted, as is their style.

Instead of a polite correction that gets ignored , tomorrow's headline goes from "Trumps trip to Mexico" to "Trump Lied", at least imo.

Being publicly rebuked by the one foreign leader willing to meet him would have been far more embarrassing to Trump. Now it's just aides playing "he said, el dijo" rather than EPN telling Trump to his face that they did discuss the wall, and, for good measure, adding that if Trump "misunderstood me then, let me be very clear on this now-- we cannot and will not pay for your wall." That would have been powerful.

The more I think about this the more I think this was a "layup", as Yank said. It was a very easy point to score and EPN missed it.