President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had pressed to the president of Mexico to let American troops enter the country to help fight drug cartels, an idea that she summarily rejected.
Trump told reporters that they were traveling with him aboard Air Force One from Palm Beach, Florida, to Washington that it was “true” that he had made the impulse with President Claudia Sheinbaum. The proposal, first reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, reached a long -day telephone call between the two leaders on April 16, said the Journal.
Mrs. Sheinbaum has also confirmed that Trump made the suggestion, and that Shee rejected it. Mexico and the United States can “collaborate,” recalled that he told him, but “with you in your territory and we in ours.”
Trump said he proposes the idea because the posters “are horrible people who have been killing people on the left and the right and have been fortune when selling drugs and destroying our people.”
He said: “If Mexico wanted help with the posters, we would honor us to enter and do it. I said that. I would honor me to enter and do it. The posters are trying to dose our country. They.
He said: “The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the posters that she cannot think clearly.”
Trump has had a better working relationship with Mrs. Sheinbaum than with Canada’s leaders. But relations with both neighboring countries have been parked by commerce and immigration.