In a Tuesday interview, Hillary Clinton said that she does not plan to accept Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s invitation to visit Mexico before the election in November.
When asked by ABC News‘ David Muir if she would take Peña Nieto up on the invitation, Clinton replied, “No.”
“We are permanently and productively in touch with @HillaryClinton’s campaign,” Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu tweeted in Spanish. “We understand and respect her decision to propose the time to have a meeting.”
Mantenemos una comunicación permanente y productiva con la campaña de @HillaryClinton.
— Claudia Ruiz Massieu (@ruizmassieu) September 6, 2016
Entendemos y respetamos su decisión de proponer el momento de mantener un encuentro.
— Claudia Ruiz Massieu (@ruizmassieu) September 6, 2016
Clinton characterized Trump’s visit to Mexico last week as “unfortunate” and said that the GOP candidate had created a “diplomatic incident,” highlighting the discrepancy between Trump and Peña Nieto’s accounts of their conversation.
“He came out saying one thing and the Mexican president contradicted him almost immediately,” Clinton said. “He didn’t know how to even communicate effectively with a head of state.”
Running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) agreed, saying that Trump had “already created kind of an international embarrassment.”
h/t Reuters
Trump: She too low energy to start a diplomatic tiff before she’s elected.
By my count, this is his 3rd major international incident since announcing his candidacy. The first was him celebrating the Brexit vote in Scotland where they overwhelmingly voted against “leave” and then gloating that the dropping value of the British pound would help his bottom line. The 2nd was inviting Putin/Russia to hack State Dept emails and to interfere with our elections.
But I could be wrong - there may be other int’l incidents that I’ve missed…
Clinton said. “He didn’t know how to even communicate effectively with a head of state.”
Trump is like the six-year old in my extended family who has the same problem communicating with a head of household. When the conversation turned to boys and girls and what makes them different, Killian announced “Girls have Virginias”! Just like that, another head of household controversy.
Drumpf said about foreign policy “I have more experience than virtually anybody looking at this office,” including former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
President Obama said in reply
Yep, let Donnie remain the “Ugly American” in both Mexico and the US of A.