Mexicans Respond To Trump Visit: #YouAreNotWelcome

FILE - In this Friday, July 10, 2015 file photo, Alicia Lopez Fernandez paints a pinata depicting Donald Trump at her family's store "Piñatas Mena Banbolinos" in Mexico City. The piñata was a special order made aft... FILE - In this Friday, July 10, 2015 file photo, Alicia Lopez Fernandez paints a pinata depicting Donald Trump at her family's store "Piñatas Mena Banbolinos" in Mexico City. The piñata was a special order made after Trump's comments that some Mexican immigrants to the U.S. bring drugs and crime, and some are rapists. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump’s last-minute visit below the border has angered Mexicans who believe the Republican presidential nominee has unfairly attacked them during his campaign.

Ahead of Trump’s Wednesday arrival, Mexican historians, actors and politicians took to Twitter to express their disapproval for the bombastic real estate mogul and for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for extending an invitation to him.

Both Peña Nieto and Trump face abysmal approval ratings in Mexico, with the current president earning just 23 percent approval in an August poll and Trump at a meager 2 percent in a June survey.

The hashtag #YouAreNotWelcome, translated as #NoEresBienvenidoTrump, was appended to some Twitter posts. Read some of their comments below.

Historian Enrique Krauze:

Mexican novelist Antonio Ortuño:

“Montezuma invited Hernán Cortés to lunch and it went really well. That’s what Peña Nieto’s advisors told him. And here we go.”

Jorge Guajardo, former Mexican ambassador to China:

Margarita Zavala de Calderón, politician and wife of former Mexican President Felipe Calderón:

“Mr. @realDonaldTrump even though you’ve been invited, know that you’re not welcome. We Mexicans have dignity and reject your hate speech.”

Univison anchor Jorge Ramos:

Academic Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez:

“The greatest stupidity in the history of the Mexican presidency. What they just announced is unparalleled.”

Actor Gael García Bernal:

“The list is huge: corruption, incompetency, lack of awareness of the common good—and now this—makes @epn a traitor.”

Correction: This post initially misstated Gael García Bernal’s surname as Marquez.

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  1. There’s an old Vulcan proverb: “Only Trump could go to Mexico.”

  2. Trump (suprised): “Can Mexicans tweet ?”

  3. keep 'im… a gift from a grateful United States… maybe you could put the deadbeat to work in a tie factory…

  4. There are various legends about captured conquistadors forced to drink molten gold. I’m not recommending that anyone do that. I’m just saying.

  5. Well, this is going to go well. That cartoon is excellent.

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