Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17300245
Donald Trump’s angry threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on all U.S. imports from Mexico—delivered Monday via the cautious diplomatic language of a Truth Social rant—is widely being depicted as a bluff. Trump declared that once in the White House, he will impose the tariffs unless Mexico stops migrants and fentanyl from “pouring” into the United States. Seen as a feint, the tactic could theoretically get Mexico to halt the migrant flow, allowing Trump to pull back on tariffs later while boasting that on the border, he has already bent Mexico to his will.
But amid all this parsing of Trump’s intentions, a crucial fact about his new move is getting lost: At the center of it is a lie. This lie is hiding in plain sight: It’s the underlying suggestion that Mexico is not doing anything to stop migrants from coming and that Trump’s threat of tariffs is needed to change that. Here we’re getting an early glimpse of how he will deceive voters about some of his most potentially destructive designs, on tariffs and immigration alike.
All this is laid bare by the sharp response to Trump’s threat that new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum issued Tuesday. Her statement is getting attention for its barbed claim that American guns trafficked to Mexico are fueling crime and violence there among gangs supplying U.S. markets with drugs. “Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours,” Sheinbaum noted acidly, suggesting that the two countries’ interrelated national challenges underscore the need for cross-border cooperation rather than Trumpian confrontation.
That’s a harsh indictment of Trump’s whole worldview.
Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.
- Sheinbaum
Not doubting you here but do you have the original source for that quote? The link in the article just goes to tweet....from a WaPo writer...who doesn't include a link to the original statement. I want to read everything she said
The Mexican government's website quotes Sheinbaum's original address (in Spanish). Among other English outlets, Politico quotes translations thereof.
Link to source?
FFS. Google works just fine...
8th paragraph
It's a nuanced and information heavy piece. Great for reading and thinking. So the average maga supporter will never attempt to read let alone comprehend.
So the average
maga supporterAmerican will never attempt to read let alone comprehend.FTFY
Don't underestimate the mindless stupidity of the majority of Americans.
No that's a lazy and shitty take with no thought behind it. It's even simpler than that.
For many Americans they simply don't have the time to read about it. Between worrying about everything else in their daily lives, living paycheck to paycheck, even working multiple jobs to get by. Many Americans barely have enough time after getting off work and commuting home, helping their kids with homework, having dinner, or otherwise winding down a tiny bit after work, to maybe watch an hour of local news before going to bed and doing it all over again the next day.
If you're worried about making ends meet every day of your life, you're not paying much attention to politics beyond the little bit you get talking to people you know, or that 30-60 minutes of local news. It's simply a lower priority than surviving and not losing your home or car which you need to get to work.
It's also a lie that migrants are flooding across the border with fentanyl.
Right, why use migrants when you could use trucks filled with legitimate goods or American citizens which are much more likely to reach their destination?
You don't even need big trucks. You can fit enough fentanyl on your body to make it worth smuggling. And most of the smugglers are Americans because they're far less likely to be searched.
I hear they’re bringing clothes. Can you believe it? Bags and bags of personal belongings? Sinister.
If you dont know the cartels are fueled by America's insatiable drug habits then you dont have even 1/4th of the knowledge required to speak about the subject. You can't stem the power of cartels without quelling America's appetite for drugs or saying fuck it and allowing them to be produced in house (and at this rate fuck it might as well buy some Johnson & Johnsons crack)
You don't even have to be specific about the US. This is the same all over the world. Illegal drugs fuel violence all around the world from csrtells. It doesn't matter if its Mexican cartels or if its the Dutch Mafia smuggling shrooms and weed or the Columbian Mafia producing kokaine. Its always the same.
I’m sure she’s far from perfect but so far I really like this new Mexican president.
I'm wondering if Mexico can annex us.
She could start with New Mexico, on the basis of "It's got my name on it"
Yeah, that's one reason she won by a landslide! She's awesome. (The other reason is that Xochitl Galvez, her opponent, is a complete moron and keept embarrassing herself)
Man, if only a candidate being a moron who kept embarrassing themselves was disqualifying in the USA.
I think I like her
Strong Mexican woman dominates orange sadboi cuck.
I'm kinda hoping she's pissed off enough to call the program to a halt once Biden leaves office and the tariffs begin. Just unleash the swarm. Or maybe wait just long enough to make it clear he CAUSED this, as the numbers of illegal crossings rise month after month.
Nevermind, I can't help feeling innocent people would be hurt by his jackboot thugs. And the MAGA-US isn't going to be a healthy place to live anymore anyway.
Nice. I heard that she's a left leaning rather competent president when she got elected and it seems like this is true.
Uuuuh, no, no she's not. She's a puppet for the previous president.
a lot of people around him who want fewer missed opportunities
Me, too, buddy. Me, too.
Maybe if American hero Tommy Crooks woulda practiced a bit more
When the thumbnail is small it looks like she’s wearing a spider-man costume and I think it’s oddly appropriate.
Spiderwoman.
Anyone got a link to her presentation?
Is it really gun "trafficking" when they're shipped down there in company owned trucks and sold wholesale to gang members right out of the back?
The Company.
Time for 2 Fast 2 Furious. This time with serial numbers and trackers that will be slightly harder to remove.
Careful, ese, la chingona don’t play!