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© 2018 AFPMexican leader's visit with Trump shelved over wall: media
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Ganbare Japan!
Presidente Nieto seems like a real cry baby. Its time to pay the piper, Nieto, just accept it. Mexico WILL be paying for that wall.
CrazyJoe
When will Trump learn he can't "order" countries to pay for his fantasy projects?
smithinjapan
Ganbare Japan: "Presidente Nieto seems like a real cry baby. Its time to pay the piper, Nieto, just accept it. Mexico WILL be paying for that wall."
Hahaha! Now I KNOW you're not serious! Sorry, amigo, but Mexico won't pay a red penny for the wall, and Trump knows it. Did you not read the transcript of the tape? Trump was practically BEGGING Nieto to avoid mentioning not paying for the wall to the media, saying, "You just can't say that -- I can't sell it. I won't be able to negotiate if you do!"
Laguna
C'mon, it's only Mexico. It's not like America doesn't have bordering states of more concern.
Jimizo
Dunno. Trump seemed a bit reticent to even mention the wall in his speech to the rightist whoopers. They started chanting “Build that wall” to prompt him. His old follow-up of “Who’s going to pay for it?” didn’t come.
All a bit flat.
Serrano
"When will Trump learn he can't "order" countries to pay for his fantasy projects?"
It's not a fantasy project, the wall is going to be built, and there are many ways Mexico can be made to pay for it in the long run.
Toasted Heretic
The wall may get built but all walls eventually come tumbling down.
Little doubt that the US taxpayer will being paying for it. Trump must think the electorate are mugs.
smithinjapan
Serrano: "It's not a fantasy project, the wall is going to be built, and there are many ways Mexico can be made to pay for it in the long run."
It's almost cute how naive you are. His "wall", which was supposed to be a solid, huge wall spanning the entire border, is now supposed to be more porous than a shotgunned swiss cheese, and is actually just a fence. Won't cover the rivers people wade or swim across, or the mountains they could climb if need be. Won't stop the flow of drugs and more by plane. And there is no way Mexico will pay, YOU will! That's why Trump was begging him not to mention that Mexico won't pay to the media. Oh my!
katsu78
Anyone ever notice right-wingers are always proclaiming joy at the idea that other people are crying or have had their feelings hurt, despite having no joy that the hurt ever happened?
I wonder if it's because deep down inside they know they'll never be loved, never be respected, and probably never even be remembered, so they cling to the fantasy that they or their ideological proxy has hurt someone because it's the only sign they ever existed in the first place?
SuperLib
Trump's foreign policy: Threaten your allies, praise Putin.
bass4funk
Doesn’t matter in the end.
Funny, how a foreign government tried to tell us that, you can’t do this. Mexico has benefited from our open borders for far too long. Whether Mexico pays for it or not the wall is going to get built.
The Wall of China still stands, the Wall in Israel stands and from the technology and materials, it’ll outlive all of us.
At this point for most of us and people that live on the border state, we’ll gladly pay for it and help build it if that’s the case, count me in!
SuperLib
Great. Go pay for it.
bass4funk
And happily! ;)
TrevorPeace
@Laguna, your comment, "It's not like America doesn't have bordering states of more concern" seems a bit odd to this Canadian. If you're implying my country, your head's not on your shoulders. Aside from Russia, which only borders Alaska, and at that, across a frigid strait of Arctic ocean, the US borders no country but Canada and Mexico. And both those countries are taking a serious look at dissociating themselves from the US and developing other trade partners. I've written this before, and I'll say it again, the US is paralleling the course of the Fall of the Roman Empire. Of course, by the time it happens, this 60-year old Canadian will probably be dead. But it will happen.
Wolfpack
Good. At some point the Mexican government needs to get the message that they need to stop the corruption and tend to the needs of their people and stop encouraging the disaffected to illegally go to America in order to relieve the pressure within Mexico for change.
mukashiyokatta
No foreign leader is going to engage with the unpopular Trump -- they will just sit tight and wait for him to be gone.