Mexico’s Foreign Minister: Prez Spoke To Trump About His ‘Insults’ In Private

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump walks with Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto at the end of their joint statement at Los Pinos, the presidential official residence, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2... Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump walks with Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto at the end of their joint statement at Los Pinos, the presidential official residence, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Trump is calling his surprise visit to Mexico City Wednesday a 'great honor.' The Republican presidential nominee said after meeting with Peña Nieto that the pair had a substantive, direct and constructive exchange of ideas.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) MORE LESS
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Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto was thoroughly dressed down online and in the Mexican press on Wednesday for hosting a genial meeting with Donald Trump despite the scathing criticism the Republican nominee has directed towards the United States’ southern neighbor. Yet Mexico’s foreign minister insisted that Trump’s barbs were addressed during his private meeting with Peña Nieto.

The president expressed Mexicans’ “grave indignation” for Trump’s “insults and offenses,” Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu wrote in a tweet on Wednesday night.

In comments responding to Massieu’s posts, Mexicans asked to hear the audio of their conversation and called it “humiliating” that their president did not publicly address the litany of insults Trump has used to describe immigrants from their country. The GOP nominee was back at it in his big speech on immigration in Phoenix, Arizona, delivered hours after his meeting with Peña Nieto, in which he again described immigrants as criminally-minded rapists and murderers.

Trump and Peña Nieto’s differing accounts on what happened behind closed doors extended to the funding of the real estate mogul’s signature border wall. While Trump told the press they discussed the wall itself but not payment, Peña Nieto insisted that he told Trump outright that Mexico would never bankroll it. On the stump in Phoenix, Trump said, “Mexico will pay for the wall, 100 percent. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going pay.”

The GOP nominee’s visit came as a surprise to many in Mexico, including top-level officials like Massieu. Her staff told the Washington Post that they received no advance warning, and the foreign minister was in Milwaukee at the opening of a new Mexican embassy when the announcement of Trump’s visit came down.

During her speech at the embassy, Massieu made pointed reference to the GOP nominee without mentioning him by name.

“Facts speak against stereotypes. History against bigotry. Cooperation against xenophobia,” she told an audience that included Trump backers including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), according to Milwaukee’s Fox affiliate.

“Undocumented immigrants are oftentimes an easy target for intolerance and discrimination. But let me tell you, it has been documented that if this population left Wisconsin today, the state would lose over 14,500 jobs,” she added.

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  1. “Trust me, I kicked his ass!! Whomped him good!! Mopped up the floor with him!! Yanked a knot in his tail!! He knows he better shape up, or else!! Trust me, OK, it happened!!”

  2. Nieto must really be kicking himself in the ass after this muy stupido adventure.

  3. What a weasel. His already tarnished credibility takes another blow . Those two lying sacks of shit were made for each other . Too bad you picked Pence Donald . Nieto would have made a good VP and you could have nailed that 20% of Mexicans who think he is doing a good job

  4. I have mentally airbrushed EPN out of that photo with Obama and Trudeau in Ottawa.

  5. Avatar for tao tao says:

    What do you get when a complete fool is given infinite power?
    Mexico will pay for the wall or be the first of many countries to get nuked.

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