Trump Mocked After Mexico's President Blows Up His Brag About Their Call
Donald Trump seemed to offer “alternative facts” on Wednesday about his recent call with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and was swiftly rebutted by the leader herself, prompting mockery on social media.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the U.S. president-elect declared that Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border.”
Shortly afterward, Sheinbaum shared a Spanish-language message about the conversation, writing, “We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders, but to build bridges between governments and communities.”
Both leaders characterized the call as positive. The two spoke after Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico as soon as he takes office. Trump said, “This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” He also threatened to put an “additional 10%” tariff on goods from China.
This week’s news was somewhat reminiscent of Trump’s claim ahead of the 2016 election that he would make Mexico pay for “100%” of a proposed wall at the U.S. border. Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico’s president at the time, disagreed. Mexico did not pay.
Social media users sarcastically celebrated Trump’s fictional victory this week.
“All it took was one call. Donny deals,” journalist Sam Stein posted online.
Mike Nellis, a former aide to Vice President Kamala Harris, said, “Trump thinks he convinced the President of Mexico to stop all migration across the border LOL.”
Olivia Troye, who was a White House official in Trump’s first term, offered a “Translation” of the president-elect’s comments about Mexico.
“Just had a conversation with the President of Mexico who didn’t allow me to bully her, which left me confused about my charm…she pointed out that this is very bad…very bad for me if I do these tariffs…” Troye wrote.
Check out some other reactions below:
Amazing stuff. Fentanyl and Immigration are solved folks
— Doctor of Alphanomics Tom (@newsovietposter.bsky.social)2024-11-28T10:21:22.696Z
Trump: Mexico is "effectively closing our southern border."Mexico: "no plan to close border."
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social)2024-11-28T02:19:39.030Z
Trump creating a fake crisis with Mexico over fake tariff threats only to settle it in exchange for fake concessions all over a holiday week when he’s not even in office yet is a reminder of how exhausting-yet-boring four full years of this will be.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 28, 2024
“Effective immediately”🤡 pic.twitter.com/Dkm2Rj2XWJ
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 28, 2024
And just like that, Trump will claim credit for the entire last year of Mexico’s crackdown on migrants. And millions of people will lap it up. https://t.co/K3d3m1Fs3A
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) November 28, 2024