Mexico's president mocked following complaint that reporters didn't applaud
Mexico's president mocked following complaint that reporters didn't applaud
Hashtag #YaSeQueNoAplauden spawned in response to Enrique Peña Nieto’s jokey complaint that reporters greeted an announcement with silence
Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Wednesday 4 February 2015 16.36 EST
Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto has become the butt of a wave of social media ridicule following a jokey complaint about the silence with which reporters greeted his announcement of a government probe into allegations of corruption by his family and the finance minister.
Turning away from the microphone at the end of the announcement on Tuesday, Peña Nieto remarked “Ya se que no aplauden” or “I already knew they don’t clap.”
Within hours, #YaSeQueNoAplauden had become the top trending topic on Twitter in Mexico.
“Do you still want us to applaud you for doing your job?” asked one tweet.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/enrique-pena-nieto-yasequenoaplauden