{"id":3003,"date":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mexicos-president-and-trump-had-an-upbeat-call-despite-dust-up-over-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:18:41","slug":"mexicos-president-and-trump-had-an-upbeat-call-despite-dust-up-over-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mexicos-president-and-trump-had-an-upbeat-call-despite-dust-up-over-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s president and Trump had an upbeat call despite dust-up over tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump said his conversation Wednesday with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was \u201cwonderful\u201d and \u201cvery productive.\u201d She, in turn, described their phone call as \u201cexcellent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their upbeat readouts on the call marked a contrast from earlier in the week, when Trump warned he would impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods from Mexico if it doesn\u2019t stop the flow of migrants and drugs across their shared border \u2013 and Sheinbaum fired back by warning that her country could retaliate with tariffs of its own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo,\u201d Trump said in a Truth Social post. \u201cShe has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum did not say in her post on X that Mexico had agreed to stop migration but that they discussed her country\u2019s ongoing efforts to address the issue. \u201cI shared with him that the migrant caravans are no longer reaching the border because they are being dealt with in Mexico,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders said they also discussed joint efforts to address the illegal drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also talked about what can be done to stop the massive drug inflow into the United States, and also, U.S. consumption of these drugs,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt was a very productive conversation!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump said his conversation Wednesday with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was \u201cwonderful\u201d and \u201cvery productive.\u201d She, in turn, described their phone call as \u201cexcellent.\u201d Their upbeat readouts on the call marked a contrast from earlier in the week, when Trump warned he would impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods from Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}