Before Donald Trump delivers a speech on immigration today in Phoenix, he’ll swing by Mexico City to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto. News broke on Tuesday after Trump tweeted, “I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Peña Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow.” For more than a year, the Republican presidential candidate has spent his entire campaign vilifying Mexican immigrants. So naturally, many are confused about this meeting, especially since EPN has compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini.
“There have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of this strident rhetoric have only led to very ominous situations in the history of humanity,” Peña Nieto said back in March. “That’s how Mussolini got in, that’s how Hitler got in – they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis. And I think what (they) put forward ended up at what we know today from history, in global conflagration. We don’t want that happening anywhere in the world.”
There’s also the matter that in July 2015, Trump vowed to stay away from Mexico. Citing corruption and the court system, Trump said he’d stay away from our neighbors. “Let’s put it this way, I’m not going to Mexico.” Yet, here we are.
People have taken the opportunity to compare the two unlikable figures to one another. EPN currently has a 23 percent approval. Reforma reports that since it started these polling efforts in 1995, it’s the lowest approval rating it’s seen, Mediaite reports. In June, El Financiero found that 98 percent of Mexicans disliked Trump. Jorge Ramos, perhaps, described it best when he tweeted, “It’s a meeting between two of the most unpopular people for Mexicans: Trump and Peña Nieto.”
Ramos, and many on the internet, have theorized about why this meeting is taking place. And these are the only … things that make sense:
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Trump Needs to Manufacture More "Make America Great Again" Hats Cheaply.
Or Trump suits for that matter.
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EPN Wants to Distract From Upcoming State of the Union + More.
https://twitter.com/ds_paris/status/770835845964238848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Distracting from one pendejada with another bigger EPNdejada.
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EPN wants a second chance at a bromance.
After EPN, Barack Obama, and Justin Trudeau met, it became obvious that the Obama-Trudeau bromance left no room for EPN.
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EPN wants to exchange speech writing tips with Melania.
https://twitter.com/ktermoen/status/757742711667556352
These two have a lot in common.
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Taco Bowl cook off.
Ñom?
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Trump wants hair styling tips from Paquita la del Barrio.
It’s an improvement, tbh.