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Donald Trump appeared to supply various information on Wednesday about his name with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and was swiftly rebutted by the chief herself, prompting mockery on social media.

In a put up on Truth Social, the president-elect declared that Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border.”

Shortly afterwards, Sheinbaum posted on X, previously referred to as Twitter, concerning the dialog, saying, “we reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders, but to build bridges between governments and communities.”

Both leaders characterised the decision as optimistic. The two spoke after Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 25% tax on all merchandise getting into the nation from Canada and Mexico as quickly as he takes workplace. He additionally vowed a ten% tariff on items from China.

Trump mentioned the tariffs would stay in place till “such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”

The incident was considerably harking back to Trump’s declare in 2016 that he would make Mexico pay for “100%” of a proposed wall on the U.S. border. Peña Nieto, Mexico’s president on the time, declined. Mexico didn’t pay.

Social media customers sarcastically celebrated Trump’s fictional victory.

“All it took was one call. Donny deals,” journalist Sam Stein posted on the platform.

Mike Nellis, a former aide to Vice President Kamala Harris, mentioned “Trump thinks he convinced the President of Mexico to stop all migration across the border LOL.”

Olivia Troye, a former Trump White House official, provided a “translation” for the Republican’s phrases.

“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…” she posted on X.

Check out a number of the reactions under.

Trump making a pretend disaster with Mexico over pretend tariff threats solely to settle it in alternate for pretend concessions throughout a vacation week when he’s not even in workplace but is a reminder of how exhausting-yet-boring 4 full years of this shall be.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 28, 2024

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And identical to that, Trump will declare credit score for your entire final 12 months of Mexico’s crackdown on migrants. And tens of millions of individuals will lap it up. https://t.co/K3d3m1Fs3A

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) November 28, 2024


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