Just a week after Donald Trump’s last-minute visit to Mexico, Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray announced that he was resigning from his post, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Videgaray, a close ally of President Enrique Peña Nieto, was reportedly behind the push to invite the GOP nominee, who has insisted that Mexico will pay for a “beautiful” wall to be built on the United States’ southern border and disparaged Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists.”
Videgaray was selected by Peña Nieto to serve as a “behind-the-scenes liaison” to Trump’s campaign, according to the Washington Post, and pushed Peña Nieto to invite him to Mexico in order to quash financial-market fears that a Trump victory could damage his country’s economy.
Trump’s relatively quiet visit, in which he praised Peña Nieto as a “friend,” was seen as a PR coup for the real estate mogul and a public humiliation for the Mexican president. The two politicians have since sparred over whether they discussed who would pay for the proposed border wall, with Trump insisting it was never mentioned and Peña Nieto claiming he told Trump Mexico would never fund it.
Hillary’s Opponent really does seem to have the reverse Midas touch, doesn’t he? Everything he touches turns to shit. “Making America Hate Again,” as I read the other day. Good luck getting to the White House with less than 200 electoral votes.
Exhibit A: Trump’s international “diplomacy” destroys alliances and upsets foreign government – even before he might possibly be elected. Don’t let that guy get near his passport.
I remember on That 70s Show the guys got high and started bouncing a bowling ball off the couch and laughing hysterically until it broke the TV screen. Next shot is Red berating them: “What good could possibly come of it?” That’s what you have to ask this poor schmo.
If it weren’t for stupid people who think they can make a deal with Trump without getting totally and completely fucked, he’d be living in a big beautiful gilded refrigerator box in a homeless encampment.
Videgaray was ‘selected’. This guy was chosen to be meat for the grinder.