What was he thinking the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, when Donald Trump invited to Los Pinos? I was thinking, of course, that he could win. But he calculated very badly. This will be one of the lowest points of his presidency. And that's saying something after Ayotzinapa, Nochixtlán, the White House, the apartment in Miami and more than 57,000 dead.
Trump left Mexico without an apology and without change, in the least, your immigration plan. It was embarrassing to see Peña Nieto silent and motionless in his own home while Trump took control of the press conference and chose to journalists who asked him questions in English. Trump said yes had spoken on the wall but not on who was going to pay. And Peña Nieto, who knew that was not true, was silent. That was the day that Peña Nieto shrank in a dwarfed and insignificant, parody of a president.
When Trump ended his show gave the floor to Peña Nieto. There, and without a text that read, he insisted that his responsibility was to "defend the people of Mexico." But ironically, he did not. Two hours after the meeting, Peña Nieto took out a tweet saying that at the beginning of the meeting made it clear to Trump that Mexico would not pay for her wall. So why he did not dare to refute Trump in public during the press conference?
That's not diplomacy. That is lack of character and leadership. No, Peña Nieto does not represent millions of Mexicans who are very different from him.
Peña Nieto has put us Mexicans to play psychologist. Why Trump invited? Why he froze before him? Why softened insults Trump saying they were "misinterpretations"? What scared the bully Trump?
It was a meeting between two of the people most hated Mexicans in Mexico and the United States. Peña Nieto has the highest disapproval -74% - of a Mexican president since 1995, when reform began to measure it. As for Trump, 73 percent of Latinos in the United States considers a racist, according to a survey of Univision. A kind.
Why unpopular meet? Because, deep down, want that people want and are willing to take high risks. Peña Nieto not just leave allegations of corruption, plagiarism and incompetence and needed a strong change of direction. Present himself as the defender of Mexicans against the ogre Trump I would have given many points. And Trump is in the midst of a controversial campaign and losing in the polls.
That explains the meeting. But it went so badly that same night in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump insisted that it would build a wall of 1.900-mile border and that Mexicans would pay if they did not know. So far the success of Mexican diplomacy.
In the end, Trump got away with it and Peña Nieto was the loser.
Trump advantage of the situation to the fullest. It was the first time we met, as a candidate, with a President and showed that these high-level meetings can be arranged within hours, not months. In addition, internationally he exercised his now famous stubbornness. He used to Peña Nieto, as eye titrated with the Reformation, and left without a wound.
The real wall Trump is in his head. He wants to isolate America from the world and preserve its Anglo-Saxon tradition. So the wall and its fight against Latin American immigrants, so their rejection of free trade agreements and their disdain for planetary organizations.
But Trump's bid is very risky. He believes he can win only with the vote of white Americans and I think he is wrong. not enough white votes in the United States to win the White House. No African Americans, Latinos and Asians the party is over. In two months we will see if he had the right.
Peña Nieto, meanwhile, missed a unique opportunity to change the narrative of his failed presidency. Patriotism, both in politics and in football should be used very rarely. But in this case Peña Nieto had every right-and the support of millions of Mexicans to show their indignation and anger at Trump.
It did not. He lacked everything.
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