President Barack Obama said Friday he did not watch the Republican National Convention this week, but he criticized the tone coming from the event’s speakers, which include GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying the message didn’t “jibe with the experience of most people”. The New York businessman also says Mexico migrants undercut USA wages by taking American jobs.
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The White House shrugged off suggestions that the visit was timed to highlight differences between Democrats and Republicans, particularly on attitudes toward Latinos. But he noted that reports of chaos during the convention do not “jibe with the facts”.
Mr. Obama sat down with “Face the Nation” moderator John Dickerson on Friday for a wide-ranging interview at the White House.
Pena Nieto’s only other White House visit came in January 2015.
Trump on Thursday repeated his assertion that he would build a wall across the U.S.
Trump’s campaign has revolved around pledges to halt illegal immigration and deport millions of undocumented immigrants already in the country, many of them Mexican. “They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”. And Pena Nieto, who has compared Trump to dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, is in Washington just as the USA presidential contest between the Republican and Democrat Hillary Clinton is gaining steam. Previously, he had likened Trump’s language to that of Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini, though he said such comparisons were taken out of context.
The presidents met at the White House to discuss and celebrate U.S. -Mexico relations.
Cartoon: What are you doing to your country? . The businessman also claims Mexico migrants undercut USA wages by taking American jobs.
“Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it”, Trump said.
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One day after Trump accepted the Republican party’s presidential nomination, Pena Nieto vowed to have a “frank and open dialogue” with whoever wins the November election, whether it is the real estate tycoon or Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. “The United States values tremendously our enduring partnership with Mexico and our extraordinary ties of family and friendship with the Mexican people”, Obama said while standing beside Mexico’s president.
