"You cannot say that to the press," Trump tells Mexican president

“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump said repeatedly, according to a transcript of the Jan. 27 call obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made clear that he realized the funding would have to come from other sources but threatened to cut off contact if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued to make defiant statements.

The funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said, adding later that “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay.” But “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”

He described the wall as “the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important.”

Peña Nieto resisted, saying that Trump’s repeated threats had placed “a very big mark on our back, Mr. President.” He warned that “my position has been and will continue to be very firm, saying that Mexico cannot pay for the wall.”

Trump objected: “But you cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that, and I cannot live with that.”

Searching for an exit, Peña Nieto reiterated that the border plan “is an issue related to the dignity of Mexico and goes to the national pride of my country” but agreed to “stop talking about the wall.”

“We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because the drugs are being sold for less money than candy,” Trump said. “I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den.”

“This is going to kill me,” he said to Turnbull. “I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people.”

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Turtleneck wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:Thanks Reince.

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Turtleneck wrote:

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Daniel W. Drezner‏Verified account @dandrezner  2m2 minutes ago
The White House has fired a fair number of people over the past two weeks. What are the odds one of them leaked the phone transcripts?

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Yesterday two National Security Council employees linked to Bannon were fired. I was going to start a thread because it looks like McMaster and Kelly might be doing some house cleaning in that regard.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

Daniel W. Drezner‏Verified account @dandrezner  2m2 minutes ago
The White House has fired a fair number of people over the past two weeks. What are the odds one of them leaked the phone transcripts?

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Yesterday two National Security Council employees linked to Bannon were fired. I was going to start a thread because it looks like McMaster and Kelly might be doing some house cleaning in that regard.

Daniel Drezner steals my posts on the reg

GRR Spartan wrote:Trump cannot comprehend that POTUS can't operate like a real estate developer running a family business.

Turtleneck wrote:He got a fax from Fox that said to bump the Devos and climate change threads to detract.

Turtleneck wrote:He got a fax from Fox that said to bump the Devos and climate change threads to detract.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:He got a fax from Fox that said to bump the Devos and climate change threads to detract.

What's a fax?

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Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

What's a fax?

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Turtleneck wrote:Blake Hounshell‏Verified account
@blakehounshell
Car-crash aspect aside, it is probably not good that the president's phone calls with world leaders are leaking.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

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tGreenWay wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

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tGreenWay wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

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tGreenWay wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

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Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

DWags wrote:tGreenway is a sellout to his generation. Nobody likes you. The Genx'ers don't want you and you've given up the Boomers. screw you. You might as well be a millennial.

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DWags wrote:tGreenway is a sellout to his generation. Nobody likes you. The Genx'ers don't want you and you've given up the Boomers. screw you. You might as well be a millennial.

DWags wrote:tGreenway is a sellout to his generation. Nobody likes you. The Genx'ers don't want you and you've given up the Boomers. screw you. You might as well be a millennial.