BREAKING NEWS: Mexican president cancels Trump summit

[highplainsdem]

Source: BBC News

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto cancels trip to Washington for summit with Donald Trump

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Editing to add the tweet that this story is based on, first in Spanish, then the Google Translate translation:

Link to tweet

Esta mañana hemos informado a la Casa Blanca que no asistiré a la reunión de trabajo programada para el próximo martes con el @POTUS.

Translation:

This morning we informed the White House that I will not attend the scheduled work meeting for next Tuesday with @POTUS

[cilla4progress]

1. Excellent!

I hope the rest will follow suit.

[geek tragedy]

2. Viva Mexico! nt

[lark]

47. Viva Nieto!

He's got balls and isn't playing along with the 2nd class role Drumpf assigned him! Good for him, glad to see someone take a stand against Hair Furor.

[geek tragedy]

49. not sure he had much of a choice.

getting publicly bullied by a US president isn't tenable for a Mexican politician

[LeftInTX]

3. Haa Haa!! He cancelled first

[PatSeg]

17. Oh, Trump is going to be SO pissed!

The orange meltdown continues.

[Fritz Walter]

39. I hope he choked on his taco salad when he got the news!

"He" being the Mangled-apricot Hellbeast, not the grown-up neighbor to the south!

W was almost done in by a pretzel...

[PatSeg]

61. He's probably busy working

on his vendetta!

[tenorly]

60. Him, and a lot of his simian voters.

When Dubya was in office, it was "nuke Paris!" Now it's "nuke Mexico!"

[PatSeg]

62. Well after all

Why do we have nukes, if we won't use them??? So many cool new toys for the man-child to play with.

[tenorly]

64. May you live in interesting times, the Chinese say.

And we certainly are.

[PatSeg]

69. Yes

And getting more interesting each day.

[Fritz Walter]

70. I know, right?

Today I heard a dyed-in-the-wool Repuke try to explain to a liberal friend how Drumpf is the best. Everything that came out of this rube's pie-hole was a lie! Like:
>Jimmy Carter was behind Iran Contra,
>global climate change is just a theory,
>the pee-Resident deserves all the credit for the Dow topping 20K, proving his policies are better than Obama's, and
>Drumpf's training at a military academy made him a great strategist.

In true simian-in-a-cage manner, when he was trapped by real facts, he could only fling feces.

All I could think of was the Picard meme my brother posted on FB: "Every morning, 'Damage Report'."

[tenorly]

71. Left is right, and up is down with those people.

They could have at least left Jimmy Carter out of it.

[Fritz Walter]

72. The perfect response is a Jimmy Carter meme

One photo shows the pee-Resident promising to build a wall.
The other shows Our Past-President in overalls with the caption "Just one wall?" and refers to Drumpf as a slacker.
I'd post it, but I have trouble inserting links on mobile devices.

[tenorly]

73. Excellent find, Fritz.

Thank you.

[Cha]

75. Good one!

[tenorly]

77. Thanks! It was Fritz's idea.

He was on his phone and couldn't post it, so I obliged.

[Cha]

78. That was good of you.. thank you.

[progree]

19. Looks like Trump gave him no other reasonable choice

Trump: Mexico should cancel meeting if it won't pay for wall
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

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141678721

Beyond outrageous. So insulting. I hope the rest of Latin America gives Trump a big fuck you

[frazzled]

4. Good start to the administration's foreign policy!

Entire senior staff of State Department resigns; first foreign leader of an ally country cancels visit.

I don't use the popcorn smiley very often, but:

[hollowdweller]

18. Think there's an element of racism in Trumps policy already??

OK so we can run a pipeline thru the US and put it in against landowner wishes to enrich a Canadian (ie white) company.

But we need to keep he brown people out and they have to pay for their own wall?

Hmm. I can see racism and class discrimination there.

[randome]

5. This reflects on Trump, not America. Nieto knows this, too.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[geek tragedy]

22. It does reflect on America. It's American voters and the American political

system that put this dumb fuck racist in as President.

The next Mexican president will be a leftwing nationalist, likely with borderline anti-American views. And that's probably important as the USA is a hostile nation to them.

We've already purchased maple leaf luggage tags for our travels there.

[mobeau69]

6. Enrique is quoted as saying

"Fuck him."

[Me.]

28. Good...Stand Up To The Bully

[onethatcares]

7. WOW

I don't say that half heartedly.

what time is the press conference? I gotta see this one.

[gademocrat7]

8. Bravo, President Nieto.

[mobeau69]

9. Next Up, Alternative Facts

The orange anus mouth actually cancelled first.

[yallerdawg]

10. "I'm the best negotiator."

[highplainsdem]

11. Just edited the OP to add the Mexican president's tweet

[progree]

12. Fabulous. I'm surprised Mexico doesn't break diplomatic relations or at least recall their

ambassador after the orange fuckhead keeps insisting that he will make Mexico pay for the wall -- so insulting and presumptious and big brotherish and condescending.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Maybe they need to keep the consulates open to handle commercial interests.

I don't know if that's separate from state concerns.

Gee, I guess that makes me qualified to be Secretary of State.

[progree]

32. Yes, breaking diplomatic relations would probably be unimaginably difficult given all the ties

we have. But seems like more is called for then just canceling a meeting or recalling one's ambassador for a short period of time. At least that's how I would feel as a Mexican that was ordered to pay for U.S. infrastructure.

[ffr]

14. Good! Our petulant child isolationist gets what he wants, isolation from world leaders.

[hollowdweller]

15. What if all illegal Mexican US Farm labor went on strike?

What if they all stayed home at harvest time????

What sort of effect would that have?

I live in WV. But even the small farmers living in podunk wv hire them to harvest their crops.

Might sort of give US consumers an idea of the interdependance.

I mean US workers are afraid to strike, so maybe they would be too, but if they did it, imagine the power they would have in solidarity.

[highplainsdem]

16. John Dingell: "Trump can't even get Mexico to sit down for a meeting, let alone pay for an idiotic

$15,000,000,000 wall. The art of the deal, I guess."

Link to tweet

[NCjack]

21. Trump doesn't know how to negotiate. Sad.

[Fast Walker 52]

36. but he's the best, really terrific, no one better!

He's the Peyton Manning and Tom Brady of deals, everyone says so

[Calista241]

20. Bye bye NAFTA. n/t

[hamsterjill]

23. Trump is saying he cancelled first.

I don't have a link. I saw that on Facebook. It sounds right to me, though.

Alternate facts, you know!

[highplainsdem]

25. Yeah, right, after he knew they were considering cancelling. Pre-emptive snub.

Trump is such a child.

[hamsterjill]

26. Exactly.

Trump is a spoiled brat. With the nuclear codes.

[progree]

34. Trump: Mexico should cancel meeting if it won't pay for wall

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141678721

So Trump issued an ultimatum that no self-respecting human could possibly accept.

[hamsterjill]

37. I don't have a time stamp, but I think the Mexican President had already cancelled.

n/t

[progree]

40. Well Trump's ultimatum was 7:55 AM (presumably ET)

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday canceled a meeting with US President Donald Trump that had been set for next week after renewed tensions over Trump's plan to build a wall on the border.

"This morning we have informed the White House that I will not attend the meeting scheduled for next Tuesday with the POTUS," Peña Nieto tweeted.

Earlier Thursday morning, Trump had tweeted that it would be better to skip the meeting if Peña Nieto continued to insist Mexico would not pay for the wall -- something the Mexican leader had said as recently as Wednesday evening.

"If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting," Trump tweeted and in an earlier tweet he noted the US's trade deficit with Mexico and what he said were the American job losses caused by NAFTA.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/mexico-president-donald-trump-enrique-pena-nieto-border-wall/

They show the above Trump tweet -- it had a 7:55 AM timestamp.

[hamsterjill]

44. But do we know when the Mexican President actually cancelled?

There was discussion about him cancelling last night. But I do not know when he made the official call.

Regardless - Trump is always going to take credit for himself.

[progree]

45. I'm just going by what the article said

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/mexico-president-donald-trump-enrique-pena-nieto-border-wall/

and the thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141678721

If you can find an article or whatever that Nieto cancelled before 755 AM ET, I'd be very interested. I haven't seen it.

[progree]

48. Well, this is interesting

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625328/-Mexican-President-comes-out-swinging-amp-orders-consulates-in-U-S-to-protect-Mexicans

Mexican President comes out swinging & orders consulates in U.S. to protect Mexicans
Thursday Jan 26, 2017 6:00 AM CST

it doesn't say anything about cancelling the meeting, but it certainly ratcheted things up (justifiably so) ... the Nieto tweet is last night 8:41 PM

[hamsterjill]

50. That is indeed interesting!

Thanks for posting!

It's going to be an interesting dynamic over the next few weeks. Nieto doesn't appear (to me) to be the type to be pushed around.

[progree]

52. "Nieto doesn't appear (to me) to be the type to be pushed around." I hope not

and I don't think so either. Hopefully the outrage will spread to other Latin American countries (for starters)

Day 6 of the Resistance

[hamsterjill]

57. Heres hoping you're right.

I think much of any help that we can expect is going to have to come to us via other countries.

Exactly! Resistance!!!!!!

[HurricaneWarning]

55. That asshole.

He said it was a mutual decision. right

[highplainsdem]

24. More from Bloomberg: Spicer, Mexican president leave door open for future meetings

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/pena-nieto-says-he-won-t-attend-meeting-with-trump

Trump’s spokesman, Sean Spicer, indicated the administration still wanted Pena Nieto to come to the U.S. “We’ll look for a date to schedule something in the future,” he told reporters. “We’ll continue to coordinate.”

In a second tweet, Pena Nieto said the door wasn’t closed to a meeting. "Mexico reiterates its willingness to work with the U.S. to achieve accords in favor of both nations."

Pena Nieto had been under domestic pressure to stand up to Trump, and that only grew after Trump earlier this week signed a directive to start the process of building a wall. In a televised address on Wednesday, Pena Nieto reiterated that Mexico will not pay for a border wall and said Mexico demanded respect as an autonomous nation even as it negotiates new trade rules with the U.S.

[LonePirate]

27. Nieto should schedule a meeting with CA Gov. Jerry Brown

[MrModerate]

43. And other sane regional leaders. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

29. Mexico may want its own wall

to keep the Orange stench away.

[highplainsdem]

30. Wow. "The agreement was that Trump would stop saying Mexico is going to pay for his wall."

Tweet from a Univision anchor. Sounds like Trump broke an agreement, made the situation politically untenable for EPN:

Link to tweet

Mexican officials close to the negotiations tell me the agreement was that Trump would stop saying Mexico is going to pay for his wall.

[Paladin]

31. My complements and respect to President Nieto.

So nice to see a country's chief executive doing something admirable, for a change.

[Fast Walker 52]

33. ha HA! (/Nelson)

[Snellius]

35. The Golden King thinks all Mexicans are peons. Dissed by a ...

This snub will really get to him. To be dissed by a peon instead of begging and bowing to the Lord of American Greatness. Bets are on for what demeaning insult he will call him on Twitter tomorrow morning. This is pure racism of the ugliest kind. The kind that thinks it's for the good of the volk.

[mountain grammy]

38. Right now, I think the whole world wants to build a wall

Around America. I'm so ashamed.

[MrModerate]

41. Sorry to be so ignorant, but does anyone know the Spanish phrase for "Bite me"? n/t

[Nash Teeth]

42. He's stonewalling

Heh.

[nolabear]

46. Si! Se puede! We the People should show him our support.

[wcollar]

51. An Intelligent Tweet

Hey Donald,

See, it is possible for a president to use Twitter in an intelligent and comprehensible way.

[Charles Bukowski]

53. Trump knew Neito was likely to cancel

so he gave an impossible demand to look tough and try to safe face. He's a such a dipshit, I can't...

[jayschool2013]

54. I see the problem: Reunion de trabajo

Work meeting: Hair Twitler doesn't work.

[ailsagirl]

56. Very cool

[potone]

58. This makes me wish...

that I had a Mexican flag to wave! Well done, Trump: you made the president of Mexico an offer that he couldn't possibly accept.

I wonder when Trump will get around to insulting the prime minister of Canada, or has that already happened?

I wish that every foreign head of state would refuse to meet with him, then even his press secretary would have a hard time defending his claim to be great at negotiating deals.

Every morning I wake up to the thought that that buffoon is our president, and every morning I have the same feeling of incredulity and horror.

[Hekate]

59. Benedict Donald is going to have to learn that other nations' presidents are his equal in dignity

I can't think of any other way to put it. I applaud President Pena, and wish him all the best in resisting this madness.

Trump is going to end up isolating us in ways never done before. This will not be the Century of the USA.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

63. Donald Trump's self fulfilling American isolationism

Offend the leaders of other countries so they want nothing to do with him.

[DeminPennswoods]

65. It's a trick

so Trump will have to go to Mexico where they can arrest him on the tax evasion charges.

[catbyte]

66. I can't wait until tonight's 3 am Twitter rant...

[Cryptoad]

67. Viva Nieto!

[DFW]

68. Translation of the translation:

Si queremos hablar con niños, no hace faltar viajar a Washington.

(If we want to talk to children, we don't need to travel to Washington)

[True Dough]

74. There's always this option:

[Cha]

76. Bueno! I read Los Mexicanos wanted him to cancel.

Gracias El Presidente.. fuck blotus