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Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinbaum, is bringing the fire. And at a press conference she just held, she's calling out Donald Trump's tariffing the world, including Mexico, 25% on steel and aluminum. She's just saying, do you all realize that based on the current trading posture, this is actually going to hurt the United States of America? far more than it's actually even going to hurt Mexico.
Hey, Donald, you may want to use a little logic. Oh, wait, you don't have any. Mexico's powerful president, Claudia Scheinbaum. Let's watch it.
With the increase in tariffs on steel and aluminum by the United States, this country would be violating the trade agreement that exists between Mexico, Canada, and the United States by being a unilateral imposition.
It is until March 12th. This is important. Particularly in the case of steel and aluminum, the United States exports more than it imports. So there is no deficit in favor of Mexico. On the contrary, it's in favor of the United States. It's a very important argument to say that there is no point in imposing tariffs.
And we have to establish the best possible relationship with the United States, always defending Mexico's interests. but seeking to convince the President of the United States and his entire cabinet that the trade agreement we have has created economic integration that benefits the United States. It benefits Mexico too. It benefits Canada, but it benefits the United States.
The only way to compete with Asia, particularly with China and other countries, is to stick together.
And I just want to show you how cool and collected Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum is. For example, the day before, when Donald Trump had just stated that he was going to do these tariffs on Air Force One after saying that there would be a 30-day pause on the tariffs before, right? First, he was going to tariff, and then there was a 30-day pause after he made a fake deal.
Then he said, okay, I'm tariffing the world when it comes to aluminum and steel, even though I made deals with Mexico and Canada, whatever. I break deals. My name is Trump. I lie about everything. So Claudia Scheinbaum finds out about it on the media the way everybody else does because Donald Trump is so chaotic. The media asks her about it and watch how President Claudia Scheinbaum handles it.
She's just like, look, I heard about it the same way y'all heard about it on the news. We're going to get through this together once again. Play this clip.
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