As we told you earlier, Donald Trump will head to Mexico today to meet with President Peña Nieto, but we really don’t know why he’s going. As in, what’s in it for Trump?
Univision’s Jorge Ramos thinks the trip is alto riesgo — high risk — and that Trump could end up getting embarrassed by the very unpopular Nieto:
Alto riesgo: los Mexicanos no le perdonarían a @epn quedarse callado ante Trump. Tiene que exigir disculpa de @realDonaldTrump
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 31, 2016
Mexican president @epn could ask Trump for an apology for calling Mexicans "rapists", criminals and drug-traffickers. Is Trump ready?
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 31, 2016
In the past, Nieto compared Trump to Hitler:
In March Peña Nieto compared @realDonaldTrump with Hitler. "That's how Hitler got in" he said. Will he repeat that in front of Trump?
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 31, 2016
Nieto is very unpopular in Mexico right now. Is Trump walking into a trap where Nieto unloads on the GOP nominee for his domestic audience?
It's a meeting between two of the most unpopular people for Mexicans: Trump and Peña Nieto.
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 31, 2016
Very unpopular: 66% of Mexicans have a negative opinion of Peña Nieto (Reforma) and 89% of Latinos have a negative opinion of Trump (WaPo)
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 31, 2016
Ramos thinks Trump hopes the meeting makes him look presidential, while Nieto gets a reboot:
Why are @realDonaldTrump and @EPN meeting?Because they both think there's something to win.Trump wants Latino votes and to look presidential
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 31, 2016
If Peña Nieto confronts Trump, he bets he could leave his scandals behind and give a new narrative to his presidency
— JORGE RAMOS (@jorgeramosnews) August 31, 2016
Former President Vicente Fox weighed in as well, telling Chris Cuomo this morning that Trump will be “rejected by everyone here in Mexico”:
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox: Donald Trump "is going to be rejected by everybody here in Mexico." https://t.co/7Pvbs496Ou
— CNN (@CNN) August 31, 2016
Stay tuned.
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