Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rebuffed President Donald Trump‘s push for U.S. troops to cross the border into Mexico to assist combat the drug cartels.
Calling Sheinbaum a “beautiful lady”, Trump nonetheless confirmed that his proposal was snubbed as he spoke with reporters on Air Pressure One on Sunday whereas flying again to Washington, DC.
The president mentioned it was “true” he made the pitch. He mentioned he got here up with the concept as a result of the cartels “are horrible individuals which were killing individuals left and proper.”
Trump mentioned the cartels have made a fortune “on promoting medicine and destroying our individuals” and that if Mexico needed assist with the cartels, he could be “honored to go in and do it.”
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed on Saturday, Might 3, that she rejected a proposal by President Trump to ship U.S. troops into Mexico to combat the cartels. / Mexico Presidency/Handout through Reuters
His feedback got here after Sheinbaum revealed that she had soundly dismissed the concept of U.S. troops getting into her nation.
“He mentioned ‘How can we allow you to combat drug trafficking? I suggest that america army are available and allow you to,’” she recalled on Saturday.
Sheinbaum mentioned she advised the president no, “Sovereignty isn’t on the market. Sovereignty is liked and defended.”
She added that she proposed that the 2 nations work collectively however “with you in your territory and us in ours.”
The feedback by each world leaders confirmed a proposal first reported by the Wall Road Journal final week. It mentioned the provide was made throughout a tense 45-minute cellphone dialog on April 16.
Chatting with reporters on Sunday, Trump praised the president of Mexico as a “beautiful lady” however he claimed that she was “so afraid of the cartels that she will be able to’t even suppose straight.”
Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time Sheinbaum has rejected a Trump proposal since he was elected to a second time period.
Not like another world leaders, together with these in Canada, the 62-year-old Mexican chief seems to be having way more success in standing as much as the president with out frightening his wrath.
In January, Sheinbaum provided up a sarcastic response to Trump’s name for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the “Gulf of America.”
She additionally managed to efficiently defend Mexico, at the least briefly, from the president’s menace to impose sweeping 25 % tariffs on Mexican imports as he pushed the southern neighbor to do extra to fight the stream of fentanyl throughout the border into the U.S.
On the identical time, the president additionally reversed course final week to slap tariffs on auto elements manufactured south of the border.