I am still quite stunned at how fast the weeks go by and soon we will be into March...I leave here on 5th April so these next few weeks I know will also fly by too!!
The days seem to be all the same now weather wise...lovely and sunny during the day and just a tad cooler in the evenings, very pleasant!!
Not really any hard news but I found this interesting article today!!!
Mexican President Cancels Trip To
The president of Mexico halted upcoming plans to visit the White House after a reportedly tense phone conversation with President Donald Trump, according to the Washington Post.
U.S. and Mexican officials told the Post that President Enrique Peña Nieto called off his visit to Washington D.C. after Trump refused his request to publicly affirm Mexico’s ongoing stance that the country will not pay for a border wall between the two countries during a phone call on Tuesday.
President Peña Nieto has long maintained that Mexico will not pay for Trump’s plans to fortify the border with a wall, as the country finds the gesture offensive.
The officials who were familiar with the call spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity because the 50-minute call was confidential.
A White House official confirmed with CNN that Peña Nieto’s meeting with Trump was tentatively scheduled for March, but was placed on hold after their conversation.
A three-sentence White House readout of the phone call did not specifically mention Trump’s multibillion-dollar border wall, but it did note that the president “underscored his commitment to expanding cooperation between the United States and Mexico on security, trade, and immigration.”
According to the Washington Post, Peña Nieto and Trump spent a “considerable portion” of the phone call discussing the border wall.
A Mexican official told the paper that Trump “lost his temper” during Tuesday’s conversation. U.S. officials said Trump was frustrated and exasperated because he thought Peña Nieto was being unreasonable for expecting him to walk back plans for his controversial campaign promise, according to the Post.
Trump and Peña Nieto had previously quarreled over the border wall during a phone conversation early last year.
Leaked transcripts of a Jan. 27, 2017, phone call between the two leaders reportedly show Trump insisting that his wall was “the least important thing” to talk about while adding that “politically [it] might be the most important.”
During the conversation, both leaders agreed that talking about the wall was unproductive, but when Peña Nieto said, “Mexico cannot pay for that wall,” Trump responded: “You cannot say that to the press.”
“The press is going to go with that, and I cannot live with that,” Trump told Peña Nieto, according to the transcripts. “You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances.”
A White House official told CNN that Tuesday’s call was “less hostile” than last year’s conversation, but not any more productive.
Good for Mexico is what I say!!!
Yashi Kochi!!!!
4 comments:
Les, all I can say about this administration is what a mess! The US essentially is a country without a rudder. But all the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place, especially as to how he got the money to run for office and who helped him. That money and assistance were not initiated from inside of this country. Because of his paranoia, I don't know what he will do as Special Counsel Mueller tightens the noose. The guilty pleas and Grand Jury indictments of his close associates are coming faster and faster, and he even has his kids mixed up in this mess. And we are not just looking at his collusion with the Russians in meddling in the election; Mueller is looking at international bank fraud and money laundering. I hope Mueller has some good bodyguards protecting him.
On this last trip to Cozumel, I spoke to a nice gentleman from Vienna, Austria who worked for the Austrian government, and he said that his government classifies Putin and his autocracy government as very dangerous. We speculated about the possibility of Trump owing the Russian banks a lot of money to run his businesses, and his paranoia might have to do with not wanting to "bite the hand that feeds the mouth." Here in the US before running for office, Trump has declared three large business bankruptcies and two small ones. No US bank will loan him any money to run his businesses because he doesn't pay his bills and doesn't honor his contracts. So it is understandable that he would go to the loan sharks outside of the US to keep his businesses afloat, but at what cost!
I know it is such a mess but my thoughts are in the year in office all the stupid things he has done nothing appears to stick to him...going to be an interesting time going into November...take care les
Yes, the mid-term congressional elections in November are going to be extremely important in the survival of our country. We do not want anyone in Congress who chooses party over country. Right now, if it were not for our Judicial Branch of government which is blocking some of Trump's unilateral executive orders as unconstitutional, it would be worse than it is. This branch seems to be doing it alone because members of Congress are euniches. But Congressional members can easily be replaced. As an example, just recently a decision was handed down from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court regarding the redrawing of voting district lines within that state. Over time, the Republican Party had been carefully studying the demographics of Pennsylvania in order to push for redistricting which favors their voting base and has achieved that goal. That goal is called gerrymandering and is unlawful. The court's decision said that it personally will redraw those voting lines to dilute the votes of highly powerful voting blocs since the Pennsylvania legislature can't seem to do it themselves. We are a nation of laws and, in this case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has spoken. In the meantime, nothing is getting done in our US Congress, but our US court system is working their butts off, especially an officer of the court by the name of Special Counsel Mueller. The wheels of justice just seem to grind along so slowly. I have faith that all this insanity will eventually stop, but look at all the wreckage in its wake.
I know when will it stop..I think he is there for the long term......best wishes hope Beach is recovering well les
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