All posts tagged "Mexico"

An ex-GOP operative flagged how Trump is killing what he once touted as his "best" deal at the expense of his supporters.

During an episode of The Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller described Trump's plans concerning the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Trump negotiated and boasted about during his first term.

"The Trump administration decided not to renew the USMCA," Miller noted. "Which is pretty interesting because Donald Trump said that was the best agreement we've ever made, the best trade deal of all time."...

President Donald Trump just got a "terse warning" on Monday from a South American leader following the military intervention in Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro.

Trump has said that Colombia is run "by a sick man" and has signaled an interest in attacking and invading the country, along with Cuba, Greenland and Mexico. Trump has claimed that Colombia is not doing enough to combat narcotics.

In response, Colombia's president Gustavo Petro didn't hold back....

American troops "pulled up on a Mexican beach" and created a "terrifying standoff," according to a new report.

According to at least one news report, "American troops pulled up on a Mexican beach in a dramatic escalation of tensions after Donald Trump threatened to bomb the country."

"US 'contractors' arrived by boat on Monday at Playa Bagdad, driving signs into the sand near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico," the Thursday report states. "Alarmed witnesses quickly alerted officials and heavily armed Mexican security personnel rushed to the scene on trucks mounted with machine guns in a terrifying standoff."...

Donald Trump and "his FIFA soulmate" Gianni Infantino got slammed Tuesday by a European analyst who claimed America's president is destroying the world's leading sporting event.

In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Marina Hyde criticized how Trump and Infantino, "the Forrest Gump of Trump’s administration," are bringing politics to the World Cup — a tournament watched by a worldwide audience on billions.

"On Monday, the worst man in world sport was – yet again – to be found in the Oval Office, this time nodding along to Trump’s declaration that games could be moved from host cities for next summer’s World Cup if the US president deems there’s 'a problem' with security or that the cities are non-compliant in some other way," Hyde writes. The 2026 competition is set to be played at cities across the US, as well as Canada and Mexico....

MAGA Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who has been a fervent supporter of Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts to deport undocumented migrants, reversed course when it came to one of his constituents, according to The New York Times.

Kennedy told Fox News on July 17, “If you’re in our country illegally, you’re a criminal. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.”

And yet, the senator's office recently asked the Department of Homeland Security to release 25-year-old Paola Clouatre after two months in a Louisiana detention center, the report said....

World leaders who are speaking out against U.S. President Donald Trump and his bullying ways are garnering massive support in their home countries, according to a new piece in "The Morning" newsletter from The New York Times.

"It’s a phenomenon known in political science as the "rally ’round the flag effect," according to the article. "When a country faces a crisis, public support for the leader or the current governing party often rises."

That's because, according to Editor Lauren Jackson, "People don’t like to ditch their leaders in a crisis, research shows. The rallying phenomenon can shift the balance of power both within and between countries."...