Taking a jab at Trump’s badly received Mexico visit over the wall controversy, Clinton says ‘diplomacy isn’t as easy as it looks’ and that ‘Trump choked’
Washington: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has failed in his first foreign policy test, his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said as the real estate tycoon returned from Mexico City after meeting Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto.
Trump met the Mexican president on Thursday. Pic/AFP
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“Trump just failed his first foreign test. Diplomacy isn’t as easy as it looks,” said 68-year-old Clinton in a tweet.
Trump (70) has almost no experience in foreign policy as compared to Clinton who served as the US Secretary of State during the first term of the Obama administration.
Clinton attacked Trump over his Mexico wall plank
The Hillary campaign slammed Trump for visiting Mexico to meet its president at his invitation. “Donald Trump has made his outlandish policy of forcing Mexico to pay for his giant wall the centerpiece of his campaign. But at the first opportunity to make good on his offensive campaign promises, Trump choked,” said John Podesta from Hillary for America. “What we saw today (Thursday) from a man who claims to be the ultimate ‘deal maker’ is that he doesn’t have the courage to advocate for his campaign promises when he’s not in front of a friendly crowd,” he said.
However, the Trump campaign has attempted to deflect the importance being attached to the meeting. “Today was the first part of the discussion and a relationship builder between Trump and President Pena Nieto. It was not a negotiation. It is unsurprising that they hold two different views on this issue, and we look forward to continuing the conversation,” said Jason Miller, senior communications advisor of the Trump campaign.
However, DNC national press secretary Mark Paustenbach said, “Trump has boasted that he is going to get Mexico to pay for his ridiculous wall but when he came face to face with the Mexican President he got out maneuvered and then tried to cover it up on worldwide TV. Simply put, Donald got rolled.”
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