what i see as a result of yesterday s actions and really this whole first week of the trump presidency is a planned visit to washington by mexican president who does not want to trade with donald trump and trying very hard to be relatively moderate in his country, under a lot of pressure. and that plan getting blown up as a result of what seems to have been trump s increasing discomfort with the idea of going forward with kind of delayed process of payment for the wall. in his interview with david mura, he seemed to be ready to accept a formula that would delay pam and thpayment and the tweet to force the mexican president to cancel the visit. i think it s difficult for the u.s. and mexico unnecessary crisis and first foreign policy
i went online. the trade council in wisconsin for international trade says they have 8,500 companies in michigan and many of middle and smaller are eager to do business with foreign countries. and mexico is a huge market for them at this point. and the governor had been down there. do you think that those companies in wisconsin could now go across the border and say we would like to do some business down here? they are not going to get a good welcome. it s tough for them. we are living, however you want to describe it, in a global economy. i think the president, obviously, got elected and saying we are going to change the rules some but there are facts in play here. there s a huge market on our southern border and the mexican economy is doing quite well. that is one of the reasons that immigration, illegal immigration from mexico is down. decreased. to tom s point, david ignatius, these are facts that president
presidency as an outsider always implied on the job training. this week s lesson? the world is not a republican primary. i m going to read that again. this week s lesson? the world is not a republican primary. president trump s twitter broadsides against mexico has unleashed a political backlash that has has now become a diplomatic crisis with a friendly neighbor. in this case he is out negotiating himself. .rump is a foreign affairs neophyte but also learning that nations can t be bullied like gop candidates or ceos. they have their own nationalist political dynamics and when attacked they push pack. mr. trump said as a candidate that he would treat america s friends better than mr. obama did but his first move has been to treat mexico like mr. obama treated israeli. on presents course he may get comparable results, or worse. again, he knew exactly what was going to happen when he sent out those tweets.
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and then he would promise again. he would tell congress don t worry, i m going to collect that money from mexico. that will not happen! understand, please, senor trump. former president vicente fox of mexico, thank you for your time. appreciate it. the wall street journal there is a bit of a jump from 20% border adjusted tax to exterminating let s not go to that. the wall street journal writes about i know people don t like adjusted border tax but it s a little different than exterminating 6 million jews and starting world war ii. if we are trying vicente fox is not helping. his tweets also inflammatory. donald trump s path to the