President-elect Donald Trump boasted Wednesday that Mexico has agreed to help him with a key campaign pledge — closing the U.S.-Mexico border — following his threats to levy a significant tariff on the country.
"Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo," Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday night. "She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border."
In a separate follow-up post, he repeated that "Mexico will stop people from going to our Southern Border, effective immediately."
"THIS WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARD STOPPING THE ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE USA. Thank you!!!" posted Trump.
Trump said the two also discussed how to end what he called a "massive drug inflow into the United States," calling it a "very productive conversation!"
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In a separate post, Trump vowed to conduct a massive advertising blitz "explaining how bad Fentanyl is for people to use - Millions of lives being so needlessly destroyed."
"By the time the Campaign is over, everyone will know how really bad the horror of this Drug is," he said.
For her part, Pardo confirmed she had what she called an "excellent conversation with President Donald Trump."
"We discussed Mexico's strategy on the migration phenomenon and I shared that caravans are not arriving at the northern border because they are being taken care of in Mexico," she wrote on X. "We also discussed strengthening collaboration on security issues within the framework of our sovereignty and the campaign we are carrying out in the country to prevent the consumption of fentanyl."
The conversation comes the same week Trump threatened to impose a hefty 25% tariff on all products imported from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% tariff on goods coming from China.
The president-elect said the tariffs would be implemented on his first day in office via executive order, and that the tariffs on Mexico and Canada would remain until illegal immigration and drug trafficking — particularly fentanyl — are stemmed.