Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced on Thursday that he will not attend a meeting with President Donald Trump originally planned for Jan. 31.
“We have informed the White House this morning that I will not go to the working meeting planned for next Tuesday with @POTUS,” Peña Nieto posted on Twitter in Spanish. “Mexico reiterates its good will to work with the United States to reach agreements favorable to both nations.”
Esta mañana hemos informado a la Casa Blanca que no asistiré a la reunión de trabajo programada para el próximo martes con el @POTUS.
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 26, 2017
México reitera su voluntad de trabajar con los Estados Unidos para lograr acuerdos en favor de ambas naciones.
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 26, 2017
White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Thursday that Trump’s administration “will look for a date to schedule something in the future” and “keep the lines of communication open,” per a pool report.
Trump signaled Thursday morning that he was considering canceling the meeting with Peña Nieto after the Mexican president refused, again, to pay for Trump’s proposed border wall.
As I predicted.
Trump will find that Mexicans aren’t fools and won’t be pushed around by a bully.
This is on trump. this is His doing. His fuck up. He owns this
Good for him!
How long until the tweet from drumpo that he was the one who canceled it.
Quick win for Nieto.
One more nail in Trump’s coffin on the world stage.
And we descend further into the shit storm unabated, a few steps each day.
I keep picturing some sad tale of an old farmer who insists he can make it to his house from the barn during a blizzard only to disappear seconds later, his pecked away carcass later discovered at the far end of the field after the spring melt.
That’s the nation, and I fear the ending is just as horrifying.