Other than Trump winning the election, this is the best news all year. Mexico is threatening to retaliate against Trump’s border security tariffs, with some form of economic punishment. Pinch me, this is too awesome.
Keep in mind that around 35% of Mexico’s GDP is contingent upon exports to the USA, meanwhile only around 1% of our stuff exports to them. Then add in the remittances of dollars to Mexico, and more than 50% of the Mexican economy is contingent upon us just being friendly to their needs.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has no clue or comprehension about the scale of Trump’s leverage over her. This is like a spoiled teenager threatening to cut up the credit card dad gave her if she can’t go to the concert. Beyond funny.
WASHINGTON DC – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government would retaliate if President-elect Donald Trump moves forward with his threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on the country, warning of severe economic consequences for companies operating in both countries.
Sheinbaum unveiled the letter during her daily press conference in Mexico City, which responded to Trump’s plan to slap 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Mexico and Canada in an effort to crack down on the flow of migrants and illegal drugs into the United States. Trump also pledged an additional 10 percent tariff on China.
“For every tariff, there will be a response in kind,” Sheinbaum wrote in a letter sent to Trump. The text was released by the Mexican Embassy Tuesday morning, which said the economic fallout of a trade war would harm shared enterprises, particularly automotive companies that operate in both countries.
“Among Mexico’s main exporters to the United States are General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company, which arrived in Mexico 80 years ago. Why impose a tariff that would jeopardize them? Such a measure would be unacceptable and would lead to inflation and job losses in both the United States and Mexico,” she added, according to a translated version of the letter provided by the Mexican Embassy.
The Mexican automotive industry is particularly exposed to a heightened trade conflict with Washington. Trump has repeatedly complained about auto imports from Mexico, accusing the country of being a back door for China, and floated 200 percent tariffs or higher on vehicles from south of the border.
Sheinbaum said she hopes her team can meet with members of the Trump administration to “continue building joint solutions.” (read more)
This is just too cool. If we are lucky, I mean really lucky, Mexico will block all trade and economic relations with the USA. That would be awesome for us.
Can you imagine how the multinational corporations are looking at this? They have funneled hundreds of billions in investments into Mexico, solely for the purpose of having access to the USA market. Sheinbaum can make all those investments disappear overnight and simultaneously collapse her government.
If Mexico blocked trade with the USA, Florida farmers would be instant bazillionaires and the value of Florida farmland would quadruple overnight. There is absolutely NO DOWNSIDE to a permanent, fixed infrastructure border wall and enforcement that blocks all migrants from entry and bottlenecks them inside Mexico.
Mexico exists because we let them exist. Mexico is wealthy because we give them dollars.
Cessation of all economic relations with Mexico would be extremely awesome for us. The only geopolitical downside would be the possibility of Russian or Chinese military bases in Mexico in a few years because Mexico would become impoverished and dirt cheap within weeks. Sheinbaum has no concept of the leverage in this dynamic.
I shall put down my winnamins, and pray she follows through with her threats. The Mexican peso has already dropped 30% this year. lol
OMG, can you imagine what the conversations are amid German automakers right now.
I’ll shut up.
This is too much fun, and he’s not even in office yet.
Girl math!
Sheinbaum? Jewish girl math. Pardon me for stereotyping but you’d think that someone of Jewish ancestry would be better at math…and economics.
Right now the D-listers are trying to figure out how such a macho patriarchal culture managed to get a woman president. The Jewish part has happened in other countries south of our border but I doubt that we’ll ever see that here in our lifetimes. And yes, you are stereotyping and it is offensive.
I find the emerging pattern offensive, not
pointing out the pattern.
Irrelevant what her name is.
Mexican rulers attain their position like Americans – via the cabal install.
They serve the money that put them in position and view their subjects as cattle.
It would be interesting if we started identifying the “cabal” by name, but, that might draw attention to the 800lb gorilla in the room.
She like many like her think Marxists, Communists, Troyskyite math! They revel in destruction of countries through their subversive caniving nepotism! And infesting like locusts hell-bent on ravaging its host!!
What did Mexico run out of Mexicans who want to be President or what??
Most of the other candidates were assassinated!
Why are so many jews connected to these dangerous and destructive ideologies?
“Retaliate”? That sounds very gangster of her. I don’t know her history. In fact, I didn’t even know who she was. Is she WEF? or is she Cartel? Curious minds.
I still believe in our American military and if the “special-special” forces were given the task of eliminating the Mexican cartels traversing our border, as evil and wicked as they are, they would be eliminated. Same goes for the Venezuelan gangs, now apparently operating in 16 states. I look foward to the day when the border is closed and the gangs are eliminated. May never happen, but I hope it does.
She’s just another Zelensky.
The cartels should have been eliminated a long time ago. Our military could certainly handle it but our politicians are paid off by the cartels and China to keep the border open. Trump should end the cartels once and for all. No one else is going to do it.
If/when President Trump eliminates the cia
the cartels will cease to exist in their present
capacity.
Who cares?
Many of us have personally suffered due to the cartel activities on our soil so we care.
Some folks over in Langley are heavily invested in Mexico.
Tough luck.
The Cartels have very well equipped armys . They control large parts of Mexico around our border. Mexico is a big country. It w0uld take a US Invasion of Mexico with brigades of special forces, armor, and air power to eliminate the cartels. Not saying it cant be done. But it is not a matter of going down there and killing or arresting a few people. It would be a major military operation.
Shutting down illegal immigration and deporting workers who have to make payments to the cartels out of their paychecks for their help getting here will militarize the cartels more than they already are. Self deportation is a fantasy imho because it’s just going to put a higher premium on our President’s head. We will need our military here protecting us when it is enacted is my prediction.
It would take some well-targeted drone strikes
No, the Israeli model is to eliminate the principals. We can do that. And have done it. As needed, so far.
Any prominent politician in Mexico is cartel-backed. “Plata O Plomo”.
Ehh why we’re at it let’s declare all the cartels there terrorist.
Wipe them out as well.
Nothing a few drones couldn’t take care of.
No use of putting boots on the ground.
Sundance I just love the sheer happiness in your words. It’s so full of optimism. With decisions like this, it won’t take long for our economy to get straightened out. Like the A team, I love it when a plan comes together.
We can only hope she listens to girls run the world every night to sleep and goes through with it…add all females to run the Mexican army while they are at it. Feelings over facts get your popcorn out.
Re-open Ellis Island and Alcatraz. Send a ship to a couple of ports (one to Mexico) and let people that wanna come here load up. Bring em to the islands regardless of their color, creed, etc, screen em for sickness and disease, see if they will benefit our citizenry, prove they have a sponsor and can speak passable English, give em $100 for bus fair and see ya later. Anyone that doesn’t pass make it through? Back on the ship to the port you got on. Try again if you like. Easy Peezy
I say we’ve had ENOUGH immigrants to last us the next few decades.
Any money transfers with any country need to be taxed at at least 15% unless the sender is a US Taxpayer. Too many are working the gray market and sending untaxed US dollars back to float another foreign economy.
50% if the receiver is not a US citizen.
Sheinbaum is a curious Mexican family name.
Used to be Sheinbauma.
Shouldn’t Jews be allowed to be Mexican citizens? You don’t think any Mexican citizens have last names unless they are Hispanic?
The gal is now saying the caravans will cease immediately. We’ll see.
Look at Tod Bensmans reporting. They have a strategy referred to as the Ant strategy. They break the caravans up into small groups and slip them across the border. Instead of a running spigot, you get a spray of individual illegals that are harder to see come across.
I think they have gone back to the old ways of having individuals carry small amounts of contraband that helps pay for their travel.
Now wait a minute.. You do know she can export half her population to us since many of them are dual citizens.. No one of any sense gives birth in Mexico.. All they have to do is walk across the river plop out their kid and return home in 12-18 hours with a US birth certificate for the baby.. Look at the payout to Mexico of dependent children
Many of them get bussed across daily to attend school and many send their kids here with abuela to live on our dime while the kid gets their free public education.
That needs to stop. No dual citizenship should be allowed. Ever.
Prolly already posted here, but this is funny!
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1861466151659651275
SELF-OWN: Mexican President Vows to Dig Her Country’s Grave by Imposing Retaliatory Tariffs On America in Response to Trump’s Bold Plan to Stop Illegal Migration (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/self-own-mexican-president-vows-dig-her-countrys
Mexico could have gotten the message long ago. If the Americans who go there would have withheld their tourist $$$$$$$$. Of course in in America it is “my pleasures rank well above patriotism”.
They’re also thriving off all the US Citizens who live there in enclaves yet pay US prices for everything.
For some, not everyone.
😊👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Perhaps a cheap retirement Casa will present itself in the near future. Baja is nice this time of year and Sea of Cortez has world class fishing.
Let’s not make the “Polish Mistake” of showing unnecessary hostility to Mexico. Yes, we have legitimate reason to be angry at Mexico, and so do they at the “United States” because of US-based-globalist interference in their internal affairs.
We are living through one of the great events of human history: the decline and fall of the Global American Empire. When the dissolution finishes running its course in the decades to come, the borders will undoubtedly change along with the names of the polities in which we live, but Mexico will still be our neighbor. Let’s not poison the well of good relations for future generations. By all means, we should be stalwart in not being taken advantage of by Mexico and be utterly ruthless in expelling all others who are either grifters or people escaping problems which are neither ours in origin nor our responsibility to solve for them at our expense.
Globalists created this disaster, not Mexico. If they have taken advantage of the stupidity and incompetence of those who have misruled America since the early 1970’s, then understand that there is no one else on this Earth who would not have done so.
That said, I want to see not only caravans heading south with the invaders of the last 4 years, but EVERY LAST ALIEN deported. I don’t care how long they have been here. I don’t care if they have paid taxes. I don’t care if they are otherwise law abiding. Diversity is a weapon of divide and conquer and divide rule used by globalists to spread their empire of usury. Every one of them has a country where they belong and they need to go home and build their societies IN THEIR COUNTRIES in line with their customs, instead of rebuilding their societies in our country at the expense of our social and financial capital.
Also please understand the politics of those who have taken advantage of the traitors who have done this to US. They hate. They are colonizing the colonizers. They are willing to fight.
“EVERY LAST ALIEN”
“EVERY LAST ILLEGAL ALIEN” …there, fixed it for you …wouldn’t want lookie-lou’s misquoting comments on CTH.
Fortunately, DJT’s ability to deal with women, even those who claim to hate him, is legendary. Especially when they meet face to face.
Fun times ahead.
Breaking, in response to Pres. Trumps promises of tariffs on Mexico if it doesn’t get a plan going to stop the fentanyl and illegal immigration, the Pres. of Mexico has threatened that any tariff on Mexican goods will be accompanied by an additional 15 peso’s to teach them a lesson.
It’s insulting to the American people that she wants to treat Trump badly on an important issue we are struggling with. American isn’t streets paved with gold and the American dream anymore, and these pos leaders want to tell Trump, oh well, suck it up, and that she will continue making things worse? Oh hell no. These are not the way friends behave!
They are not our friends and never have been. What have they ever done for us?
Forgive if posted elsewhere but here is Mexico’s letter to DJT. I’m not a fan of Sheinbaum but this strikes me as a decent letter making some worthy points. I hope they work together well.
https://therightscoop.com/just-in-the-letter-mexican-president-sent-to-trump-blames-america-for-their-problems-full-letter/
Thanks for posting that!
I like the position of the new president of Mexico. She speaks truth to power. Gutsy.
Yes, no need for caravans because Joebama allowed the migrants to use a convenient app and schedule their invasion. Technology and corruption at its finest.
Unimpressed.
She runs her mouth to impress the ignorant masses in Mexico. She may be threatened by the cartels with the murder of her entire family, and such an outcome would be tragic, but international economic survival will force her submission to PDJT.
My mother, of blessed memory, would tell Pres Sheinbaum “don’t cut your nose off to spite your face”.
It’s remarkable how this is only complicated when our own government is working against our interests. When someone who prioritizes our well being is in charge, it becomes very simple.
Lord, does she realize how deep the water is where she’s tryin’ to swim?
Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc! Will Mexico be for sale? maybe we could get both Greenland and Mexico.
Too bad we don’t have Brazil as a true ally, they wouldn’t be a bad partner to buy Mexico’s land if Bolsanaro was still there. Assuming they would prevent us from doing that.
Brazil is not to be trusted.
Do it Sheinbaum. Let us see where this threat ends up.
This is just too cool. If we are lucky, I mean really lucky, Mexico will block all trade and economic relations with the USA. That would be awesome for us.
Can you imagine how the multinational corporations are looking at this? They have funneled hundreds of billions in investments into Mexico, solely for the purpose of having access to the USA market. Sheinbaum can make all those investments disappear overnight and simultaneously collapse her government.
She’s (Sheinbaum) a utopian, statist, collectivist spouting off what Soros and Schwab tell her to spout off.
Either Mexican elections are queerer than $3 bills or they are among the dumbest people on Earth.
Since the American indigenous didn’t invent the wheel by 1492, I’m inclined to believe the latter, but in deference to them I will believe that they voting under very warped circumstances.
No reason it can’t be both.
The problem didn’t originate with Sheinbaum and it really isn’t about immigration.
Her predecessor and current mentor worked well with Trump in controlling the illegal invasion and in replacing the old NAFTA trade deal with a much, much better one for us.
The real problem is that Biden did a 180 on Mexico, encouraging them to do everything possible to expedite the flood of millions to our borders and end the Remain in Mexico agreement.
Then he looked the other way while China cut lucrative deals with her predecessor to build huge auto factories in Mexico that allows China to export millions of cheap Mexican built Chinese cars under the NAFTA replacement if the factories open. Trump would never have allowed that but Biden did and now Trump is stuck with dealing with both problems …as is Sheinbaum. That’s what the tariffs are really about.
She’s a Mexican leftist/populist as was her predecessor and must be seen by her supporters as playing hardball with Trump, but of course, that’s a joke. She holds no cards, and Trump has a royal flush.
Keep your focus on what she does, not what she says. She wants to keep whoever is currently in the WH happy and would love to see the cartels dethroned …if it doesn’t create a civil war in Mexico and keeps her head. Trump wants the Chinese out, the drug flow cauterized, and the cartels eliminated. Lots of common ground there.
Count on Trump. Ignore the chatter. This will be quick and easy.
Maybe not quick or easy but it has to be done if we wish to survive.
Well, I do like the Mexican version of Coke better, that is, Coca-Cola. 😉 But I’ll get over my addiction. Tariff away. Better yet, finish the wall, locate and collapse every tunnel system, increase ICE personnel by 20x and deport as many illegals as possible, and obliterate their Cartels. Some of our politicians and LE precinct s may not be happy losing all that Cartel bribe money, but so be it.
Bring it.
Sundance this is indeed awesome. La Presidente must be receiving economic advice from AOC and the effects of a countering tariff. A line from the Princess Bride comes to mind when the Vizzini tells the dread Pirate Robert to never get involved in a land war in Asia. Vizzini should have also told the dread Pirate Robert to never get involved in a tariff war with a country that swamps you in exports.
Put 75% tax on Friday remittances to Mexico.
To paraphrase one of the greats.. We are surrounded, we can attack in any direction.
This tariff is Shock and Awe.
There is a need to remind Mexico how serious this is.
This Biden created border crisis will end.
Don’t underestimate what a debacle Biden has been for
the United States and Mexico;
exploding the power and wealth of the cartels,
among other things.
Trump will do good by Mexico
but not with them chauffeuring caravans across Mexico
and guiding them to the border.
Trumps track record is a more secure border
and prosperity on both sides.
Trump and the previous Mexican President, AMLO, had
a very good relationship that profited both countries
This is not rocket science, what worked before
can work again.
Make Mexico Great Again.
RobinSolana
I’ve long believed that a tax/fee on all remittances going to countries who don’t play fair or otherwise cooperate is a good idea. Approximately 40% of Mexican GDP comes from remittances. Slapping a 25% fee would dramatically increase the incentives for self-deportation and it would also provide an unambiguous incentive for Mexico to fully cooperate in border security, including patrolling/securing their own Southern border, as well as interdicting the flow of people and drugs through the Mexican interior – and our border with them.
Biden and most of his predecessors were either too corrupt or beholden to globalist interests to get tough on immigration, and for decades most were willing to look the other way. When Democrats (sic) sandbagged President Reagan by not securing the border after promising to do so after passing an amnesty bill that created millions of new Democratic (sic) voters, We The People began to notice. And when Below Average Joe Biden literally opened the border in a deliberate act to wreck our country and create a permanent Democratic (sic) majority, he received an historic smackdown.
It is now up to President Trump and his team of reformers to grab large shovels and begin the heroic task of cleaning out the Augean Stables of the Swamp. Every corner is piled high with the filth of career politicians and Trump’s team have an unimaginable task ahead of them. My advice is to slash and cut with abandon as 95% of our Federal government serves no truly critical purpose. When it doubt cut it out! It’s not like we can’t hire a bunch of bureaucratic mushrooms to fill any voids that maybe should have not been cut.
Yes!
Mexico has facilitated an invasion at our southern border. This is not the act of an economic trading partner, this is act of war. We should act militarily, or we should completely shut down the southern border, nothing in or out. Plus all money wired, or mailed to mexico should also have a surcharge payable to the federal govmint. I’m thinking 25%. You folks in mexico are damn lucky I didn’t win this past election.
I have a Mexican granddaughter in law who is sweet, bright, hardworking. She & her family came here legally, long & expensively.
The Mexican people are mostly good, hard working, but have been dominated by their overlords for centuries.
May we find a way to make both of our countries flourish for all of our sakes.
She comes from the Party of Democratic Revolution and that sounds like a real brainless radical.
She has no clue on what’s about to happen
Mexico, an economic partner, with a signed treaty, facilitated an invasion through our southern border. That is act of war. Close the border, charge a surcharge on all money wired, and mailed to mexico from the United States. Or just keep our missiles here and shoot them south of the border. You folks in mexico are lucky I didn’t win the election.
Mexico facilitated an invasion of the United States through our southern border. This not the act of a trading partner, that is an act of war.