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Donald Trump has claimed the President of Mexico lacks respect for President Biden after asking for $20 billion simply to talk, as part of a series of outlandish requests that critics have termed 'diplomatic blackmail'.
Speaking on Fox News on Sunday night, Trump intimated that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan to ask for money simply to speak with Biden is a sign of Biden's weakness.
'He said he wants $10 billion essentially just to talk, $10 billion to talk. That wouldn't happen with me, with the wall,' Trump bragged.
Earlier this year Obrador suggested that the Mexican government would work to support the U.S. efforts to curb the surge of illegal migrants, but only if certain outlandish conditions were met.
Obrador wants the United States to reciprocate by sending $20 billion annually in taxpayer cash in the form of aid to Latin America and the Caribbean to address so-called 'root causes' of migration.
Speaking on Fox News on Sunday night, Trump intimated that Mexican President Obrador's plan to ask for money simply to speak with Biden is a sign of Biden's weakness
Donald Trump criticized Mexican President Obrador's demand of $10 billion to talk with President Biden, suggesting it reflects Biden's perceived weakness
The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants the United States to send $20bn annually in taxpayer cash to Latin America and the Caribbean to address the so-called 'root causes' of migration
'We're not going to shut down our border until you change your policy on Cuba and change your policy on Venezuela,' journalist Brian Kilmeade reminded viewers of what Obrador had suggested before asking Trump: 'Is it OK for the Mexican president to dictate American policy?'
'It's very simple: lack of respect for the president. They would never say that to me. They would never say before we even talk. They want $10 billion a year, Mexico just asked for $10 billion a year. They would never ask it. I wouldn't give them 10 cents,' Trump continued.
Aside from the $20 billion in aid, Obrador wants to see Biden lifting sanctions on communist Cuba and Venezuelas socialist government and the granting, amnesty and providing of legal status to 'millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the US.'
Obrador, realizing he has leverage over Biden with immigration a chief concern in this year's U.S. election, has suggested that the 'flow of migrants will continue' unless the U.S. meets his demands.
Trump has said the president of Mexic would never ask for money from the U.S. if he were still in the White House. Obrador and Trump are pictures in July 2020
President Biden met with President Obrador of Mexico in January 2023 In Mexico City
Obrador has explained such ideas as him 'speaking frankly' because 'we have to say things as they are — and I always say what I
