After Trump claimed that Mexico was going to pay for the wall and enjoy doing it, the President of Mexico fired back saying that his country was never going to pay for the wall.
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At a rally in Nashville, TN, Trump said, “I don’t want to cause any problems. But, in the end, Mexico is paying for the wall. They make all of this money, and they do absolutely nothing to stop people from going through Mexico from Honduras and all these other countries, the caravan, all of this stuff, they do nothing to help us. Nothing. They are going to pay for the wall, and they are going to enjoy it. Okay? They are going to enjoy it. They do nothing for us.”
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President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted back at Trump:
President @realDonaldTrump: NO. Mexico will NEVER pay for a wall. Not now, not ever.
Sincerely, Mexico (all of us).
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) May 30, 2018
Mexico is not paying for the wall
Trump knows that Mexico is not paying for the wall. The Mexicans have told him that they aren’t paying for the wall. Trump knows that Mexico isn’t going to pay for the wall, which is why he continues to try to ransom Democrats into paying for the wall. Democrats won’t pay for the wall either, as they correctly continue to point out that Trump promised that Mexico would pay for the wall.
The result of all of this is that Trump has no wall, but he continues to try to fool the marks in the MAGA hats into believing that Mexico will pay for the wall.
Mexico isn’t paying the wall. Democrats aren’t paying for the wall, which means that the humiliated Trump isn’t going to get his wall.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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