Claudia Sheinbaum Es La Presidenta De 'El Arte Del Trato' [View all]

[Zorro]

Ella arrebata los aranceles de las manitas naranjas de Trump.

How much have we missed Donald Trump’s signature “whine like a baby and wave your tiny hands in the air until some foreign leader picks you up, burps you, and puts you back down in your baby swing that plays gentle instrumental covers of Lee Greenwood songs” style of governance? Not even a little tiny bit, we’re not members of the White House press corps.

Nonetheless, that’s what the people voted for — or what voter suppression voted for — so that’s what America is getting good and hard.

And as in the giant baby’s first term, the president of Mexico — Claudia Sheinbaum — is soothing him with nothing gestures in order to keep him from slapping giant tariffs on her country’s exports to the US and thereby tanking both economies:

Mexico has deployed almost 15,000 soldiers and National Guard in the north of the country to stem the flow of illegal immigration across the border into the United States, the head of the Mexican Army said on Monday. [...]

Former Mexican national security official Gustavo Mohar said Mexico's security forces had not been used this way before, describing the development as "sad."

Mohar blamed the change on Trump's threats to impose tariffs.

Whoops, our mistake. That quote is not from today! That quote is from the first time Trump pulled this move back in 2019, when Mexico had a different president and the tariffs were going to start at five percent. Sheinbaum, who has only been in office for four months, learned the lesson well. On Monday she announced that Mexico will send 10,000 new troops to its northern border to help slow the flow of drugs across the border that Trump and Stephen Miller see in their Nazi fever dream nightmares.

That is actually 5,000 fewer troops than former Mexican President Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador got away with sending in 2019. In return, Trump announced that he will postpone for one month the 25 percent tariffs on Mexican goods that he signed into existence over the weekend.

Perhaps Sheinbaum is the real la presidenta de El Arte del Trato.

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