Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, had a phone call yesterday Thursday with the next president of the United States, Donald Trump, after he was victorious in the elections last Tuesday, November 5, in which he snatched victory, by far. , to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
The relationship between Mexico and the United States is facing uncertainty after Trump’s constant attacks on our country during his electoral campaign, with threats ranging from the imposition of tariffs, the complete renegotiation of the T-MEC trade agreement, military intervention to eradicate drug trafficking cells, and the mass deportation of thousands of migrants living in the United States. Even his return to the White House had an impact on the price of the dollar and the Mexican peso, which during election day reached one of its worst levels in several years.
However, Claudia Sheinbaum assured that in her first formal call with Donald Trump there was, above all, cordiality: “we had a very cordial call with President-elect Donald Trump, in which We talk about the good relationship that will exist between Mexico and the United States“said the President on her official X account, formerly Twitter, but without providing more details about it.
In the “morning” conference this Friday, November 8, Claudia Sheinbaum was asked for more information about the first formal call between the new governments of Mexico and the United States. Once again, the President highlighted the cordiality of the conversation.
“It was a very cordial call, I want to highlight this. He started the conversation by congratulating me on my victory in the elections. I returned the congratulations, obviously, that’s what the call was for, to congratulate him on the victory,” he highlighted. He also indicated that Donald Trump touched on the border issue, Sheinbaum specified that there will be space to talk about it, and that Trump sent greetings to former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with whom he assured that he had a very good relationship.
Claudia Sheinbaum said that for the moment there was no talk of an invitation to the inauguration of Donald Trump, considering the recentness of his victory, but that Trump told him that “they would see each other soon.”
“This thing that came out that if he invited me to the inauguration he told me ‘see you soon’, that is, see you soon and I said ‘yes, see you soon,’” concluded Sheinbaum.
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